Brucie, thanks for posting a link to those needed but very disturbing documents on modern day slavery. This is a cause that all caring people should champion.

For those who are still on dial up, here is an excerpt from that first link:

"Photographs of modern-day slavery will not reveal whips, auctions, and chains. They depict complex power relationships—debt bondage, forced labor, the sorts of servitude that come from social power, not direct physical force. Cruel hierarchies are not seen in a snapshot.

And so abolitionists around the world are using new methods to fight the ancient scourge of slavery. Countries in the developed world and their citizen consumers are being urged to say no to products made with forced labor; to do no business with or touring of countries that engage in slavery-like practices; and to press their governments, as Zimmer and Frank are doing, to act against slaving nations.

The efforts of abolitionists should be supported. In this, the last decade of the twentieth century, surely the world cannot abide the hideous practice of human bondage. Or can it?"