Human Sex Trafficking Conference: Raising Awareness in Social Service Communities
Date: March 12th, 2007
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Place: San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
Cesar Chavez Building 3rd Floor, Jack Adams Hall
8:30-9:00 Registration/light breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome/Introductions
Dina Redman, MSW, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor,
San Francisco State School of Social Work
Damian Ochoa, MSW Student, S.F. State School of Social Work
Juhye Park, MSW Student, S.F. State School of Social Work
9:15-10:30 Sex Trafficking Overview
Norma Hotaling, Founder and Executive Director,
Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE)
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-12:00 Psychological Trauma Caused by Being Trafficked
Into Prostitution
Melissa Farley PhD, Director, Prostitution Research & Education
12:00-1:00 Lunch-on your own
1:00-1:20 SAGE Documentary- Survivors’ Testimonials
1:20-2:10 Transnational Methods & Critical Race Lens: Deconstructing Racism in the Global Sex Industry Through the Experience of Asian Sex-Exploitation & Trafficking
Annie Fukushima, Doctoral Student/Activist, Ethnic Studies, U.C. Berkeley
2:10-2:20 Break
2:20-3:30 Legal & Advocacy Panel
Moderator: Damian Ochoa
Panelists:
Kala Bokelman, Special Agent, Diplomatic Security Service, United States Department of State, San Francisco
Kenneth Stocker, Inspector, San Francisco Police Department
Marianne Barrett, Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, San Francisco
Thea Tremain, Victim Advocate, Victim Services Division, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, San Francisco
Leena Khandwala, Appellate Advocacy Fellow, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
3:30-4:20 Community Assessment & Program Planning Panel
Moderator: Damian Ochoa
Panelists:
Nayeli Cerpas, Rosalyn Moya, Charles Ramilos, & Teresa Shartel, MPH Students, SFSU Department of Health Education
Norma Hotaling, Founder and Executive Director, SAGE
Melissa Farley PhD, Director, Prostitution Research & Education
4:20-4:30 Closing Remarks and Evaluations
Dina Redman, Damian Ochoa, & Juhye Park
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
"Detecting the Undetected: Revealing Asian Human Trafficking in California"
Sex Trafficking Obliteration Petition (S.T.O.P) Campaign Panel
"Detecting the Undetected: Revealing Asian Human Trafficking in California"
When: Thursday, March 8, 2007,
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Heller Lounge at UC Berkeley (corner of Telegraph Ave and BancroftAve)
Keynote Speaker: Norma Hotaling, CEO of Standing Against Globalization and Exploitation (SAGE)
Panelists will be discussing about human trafficking in the Bay Area and the type of services provided for Asian trafficking survivors in theBay Area.*
Speakers and organizations include:
- Annie Fukushima - Ethnic Studies Doctoral Student
- Joseph Fong - SF Police Department
- Orchid Pusey - Asian Women's Shelter
- Judith Mirkinson - Gabriela Network
Doors open at 6:30 pm for meeting participating organizations. * Refreshments will be provided.The S.T.O.P Campaign panel is part of the Gender Equity Resource Center'sWomen's History Month Series, celebrating women across the world.
"Detecting the Undetected: Revealing Asian Human Trafficking in California"
When: Thursday, March 8, 2007,
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Heller Lounge at UC Berkeley (corner of Telegraph Ave and BancroftAve)
Keynote Speaker: Norma Hotaling, CEO of Standing Against Globalization and Exploitation (SAGE)
Panelists will be discussing about human trafficking in the Bay Area and the type of services provided for Asian trafficking survivors in theBay Area.*
Speakers and organizations include:
- Annie Fukushima - Ethnic Studies Doctoral Student
- Joseph Fong - SF Police Department
- Orchid Pusey - Asian Women's Shelter
- Judith Mirkinson - Gabriela Network
Doors open at 6:30 pm for meeting participating organizations. * Refreshments will be provided.The S.T.O.P Campaign panel is part of the Gender Equity Resource Center'sWomen's History Month Series, celebrating women across the world.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
YouTubeVideos - Dec. 2. Girls brought in to McGonigle Canyon and have sex with migrant customers
YouTubeVideos - Dec. 2. Girls brought in to McGonigle Canyon and have sex with migrant customers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwvgtfpgokQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrPjxsG9djE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIXFfjxk03Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I87iO7RtJRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7h9JHqE5Rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=727GSoLHLXI
PRESS RELEASE JOHN MONTI, SAVE OUR STATE, 323-474-4402
February 28, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GRAND JURY RECEIVES COMPLAINT OF POLICE INACTION TO STOP SEX TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION
San Diego, California – Save Our State member John Monti will file a grand jury complaint on Thursday, March 1, 2007 asking that the county grand jury investigate the San Diego Police Department's (SDPD) response to continued prostitution and human trafficking occurring in Rancho Penasquitos. He will meet the press outside of the Hall of Justice on 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, CA at 10:00 a.m. on March 1, 2007 after the complaint is formally filed to answer questions and distribute footage of the December 2, 2006 incident.
This complaint was prompted by police actions on December 2, 2006 when San Diego Police Department officers were called to investigate prostitution in McGonigle Canyon. The officers refused to investigate and when shown where girls were hiding in the brush, they refused to enter the thicket to talk to the girls to investigate their situation.
In the context of the human trafficking and forced prostitution problems that San Diego County has been found to have, Mr. Monti believes that San Diego Police Department is egregiously ignoring its duty to defend the most weak and vulnerable – women and children. It is believed that this is more than just the dereliction of duty of two police officers, but instead strikes at the modus operandi of the migrant liaison officers and the command element of the SDPD in the Northern and Northeastern Divisions of SDPD.
The complaint will ask for an investigation of why the SDPD has refused to acknowledge and investigate the existence of prostitution and human trafficking in Rancho Penasquitos in spite of numerous eyewitness reports and information provided by the local migrants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
February 28, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GRAND JURY RECEIVES COMPLAINT OF POLICE INACTION TO STOP SEX TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION
San Diego, California – Save Our State member John Monti will file a grand jury complaint on Thursday, March 1, 2007 asking that the county grand jury investigate the San Diego Police Department's (SDPD) response to continued prostitution and human trafficking occurring in Rancho Penasquitos. He will meet the press outside of the Hall of Justice on 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, CA at 10:00 a.m. on March 1, 2007 after the complaint is formally filed to answer questions and distribute footage of the December 2, 2006 incident.
This complaint was prompted by police actions on December 2, 2006 when San Diego Police Department officers were called to investigate prostitution in McGonigle Canyon. The officers refused to investigate and when shown where girls were hiding in the brush, they refused to enter the thicket to talk to the girls to investigate their situation.
In the context of the human trafficking and forced prostitution problems that San Diego County has been found to have, Mr. Monti believes that San Diego Police Department is egregiously ignoring its duty to defend the most weak and vulnerable – women and children. It is believed that this is more than just the dereliction of duty of two police officers, but instead strikes at the modus operandi of the migrant liaison officers and the command element of the SDPD in the Northern and Northeastern Divisions of SDPD.
The complaint will ask for an investigation of why the SDPD has refused to acknowledge and investigate the existence of prostitution and human trafficking in Rancho Penasquitos in spite of numerous eyewitness reports and information provided by the local migrants.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Imagining Bodies
22nd Empowering Women of Color Conference: Our Bodies, Our Souls: Sistahood, Health and Healing
Workshop Title: Imagining Bodies: De-centering Women's Bodies in the Sex Industry, (Re)Centering the Demand
Presenter: Annie Fukushima, Doctoral Student - Ethnic Studies & Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Location: West Madrone, MLK at UC Berkeley
Time: 11:15AM - 12:15PM, Workshop Series II
Summary
Through conversation/a dialogical experience the goal of this workshop is to engage participants in an in depth conversation about popular assumptions of women in the sex industry. The first half of the session we will explore through visual art a (re)imagining of bodies in the sex industry. The second half of this dialectical experience is to (re)center the demand, commonly referred to as "Johns" or "Clients".
For more Details please visit: http://ewocc.berkeley.edu/home.php
This year's conference will feature a community health panel, vendors, cultural performances, workshops on a variety of health and spirituality-related topics, and keynote speaker Mililani Trask, a renowned leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and an internationally acclaimed political speaker and attorney.
Workshop Title: Imagining Bodies: De-centering Women's Bodies in the Sex Industry, (Re)Centering the Demand
Presenter: Annie Fukushima, Doctoral Student - Ethnic Studies & Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality
Location: West Madrone, MLK at UC Berkeley
Time: 11:15AM - 12:15PM, Workshop Series II
Summary
Through conversation/a dialogical experience the goal of this workshop is to engage participants in an in depth conversation about popular assumptions of women in the sex industry. The first half of the session we will explore through visual art a (re)imagining of bodies in the sex industry. The second half of this dialectical experience is to (re)center the demand, commonly referred to as "Johns" or "Clients".
For more Details please visit: http://ewocc.berkeley.edu/home
This year's conference will feature a community health panel, vendors, cultural performances, workshops on a variety of health and spirituality-related topics, and keynote speaker Mililani Trask, a renowned leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and an internationally acclaimed political speaker and attorney.
Orphans and Human Trafficking
Miramed Institute
http://www.miramedinstitute.org/
Aid to Children Without Parents
http://www.acwp.org/
In the past week I recently learned about these two organizations whose missions parallel, but in different parts of the globe. Miramed Institute focuses on helping orphaned children in Russia and ACWP focuses on orphaned children in South East Asia.
Their continuities lay in the global dilemma and concern of who is most vulnerable in processes of exploitation: children. These two organizations are integral to understanding human trafficking in the United States that has become increasingly focused on two migratory patterns of trafficking: South Eat Asia and South East Europe. In order to deconstruct/combat human trafficking here in the states necessitates a transnational lens that not only focuses on the demand but the status of the source countries. These two organizations provide what I would like to call the necessary hope in the anti-trafficking movement: organizations who focus on the most vulnerable and impressionable: youth/children. While each countries racialization differs and the commodification of white bodies and asian bodies are to phenomenons that can not be seen as the same, the globalization of human trafficking is evident.
http://www.miramedinstitute.org/
Aid to Children Without Parents
http://www.acwp.org/
In the past week I recently learned about these two organizations whose missions parallel, but in different parts of the globe. Miramed Institute focuses on helping orphaned children in Russia and ACWP focuses on orphaned children in South East Asia.
Their continuities lay in the global dilemma and concern of who is most vulnerable in processes of exploitation: children. These two organizations are integral to understanding human trafficking in the United States that has become increasingly focused on two migratory patterns of trafficking: South Eat Asia and South East Europe. In order to deconstruct/combat human trafficking here in the states necessitates a transnational lens that not only focuses on the demand but the status of the source countries. These two organizations provide what I would like to call the necessary hope in the anti-trafficking movement: organizations who focus on the most vulnerable and impressionable: youth/children. While each countries racialization differs and the commodification of white bodies and asian bodies are to phenomenons that can not be seen as the same, the globalization of human trafficking is evident.
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