Free the Slaves staff Jacob Patton, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, and Peggy Callahan will be blogging here to keep track of what we know about trafficking and US contractors in Iraq and how the warslavery.org campaign is going.
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Both the Republican Administration and the incoming Democratic Congress are on the record against trafficking in Iraq. The record is a start but action is what actually makes the difference between slavery and freedom!
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A second installment of what you need to know about US tax dollars paying for human trafficking during the Iraq war: a CNN report from 2004 as well as old and new articles by David Phinney.
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The last few months have been a busy time here at the WarSlavery Campaign. The plight of workers and growing concern about the New Embassy Compound have captured attention from the media as well as the federal government.
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