Zero Prosecutions
by Austin on August 23, 2006
Maybe you’re asking yourself why nobody’s being prosecuted for trafficking in Iraq. Actually we’ve been asking ourselves a few questions as well. Sometimes the answers are surprising.
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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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Trafficking Troubles Tip of Contracting Iceberg
by Austin on January 16, 2007
The outsourcing of war duties has created a lucrative new market for human traffickers. A host of activities that used to be considered the sole domain of the federal government has been hired out to private contractors. Private US citizens are conducting interrogations, intelligence gathering and analysis here in the United States and abroad. Critical security functions around the world are carried out by US-based corporations responsible for war duties previously performed by the military. And many Americans would be surprised to know that economic migrants from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh and Nepal are cooking and serving food to US troops in Iraq. Some of them were tricked into the situation through false promises of high-paying jobs in Jordan, but instead their papers were confiscated, they were shipped to Iraq and forced to work on US military bases. US taxpayers footed the bill, and human traffickers profited.
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Sources and resources pt.2
by Austin on November 09, 2006
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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Sources and resources
by Jacob on August 02, 2006
What you need to know about US tax dollars paying for human trafficking during the Iraq war: internal memos, articles, interviews, letters, government reports testimony, and official documents.
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WarSlavery Campaign | Summer '07 Update
by Austin on July 13, 2007
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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