Last week I was in a Twitter conversation with a few people about Slavery. Jason Markow reminded me of a TED talk that I found sitting in my podcasts feed, waiting for my viewing. Like most of us I have been to busy to get around to it, to give it the attention it deserved.
It is a recent video of Kevin Bales discussing the issues of Human Trafficking – modern day Slavery. It’s rather profound. The term “Slavery” has so many meanings to our ears, and “Human Trafficking” is getting more press, finally, but it’s easy to let them be another set of buzz words… like the word “Haiti” likely is now.
Haiti was originally a slave colony, in case you didn’t know. And yes, there is still quite a bit of slavery carrying on post-earthquake. Kevin Bales’ talk gives a right-now perspective on the current state of Slavery world-wide. Astounding and hopefully it will give one more piece of the complex problems that come with recovery: