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- [John] Well, do you wanna
start somewhere, or...

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- [Sadhvi] Well, first,

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just introduce yourself as the author,

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what has led you to this
time, and what you're doing,

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and then we'll take off
with questions later.

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- Sure.

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Yeah, I've been having
sex since I was four.

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My first sex acts I was engaged in

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was to watch my father put bread and water

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in me mother's vagina

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and I was engaged in an oral act.

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They talk about the impact on a child,

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and that's true, it haunts us,

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but it's not the impact that
is necessarily felt as a child,

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because you're incredibly resilient,

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it's when you wake up 30 years later

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and you realize what was done to you,

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and that your life is in
total disarray because of it,

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and it all tracks back
to a series of events

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and things that were
done to you, not by you.

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It's not the breaking
of the life as young,

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because it is,

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it's having to deal with

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the consequences of it in adulthood.

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- [Carolina] I grew up in Thailand,

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so I'd seen sexual exploitation

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and all these things growing up.

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- The second-largest criminal
enterprise in the world.

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- It takes a lot to shock
me, we'll say it that way,

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and to see it rampant,

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it literally just makes you revolt it.

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- I think she got aroused
watching him beat me,

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and he got aroused watching
her engage me sexually.

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- There was one boy, they
wanted him to work as a beggar,

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but he didn't look pitiful enough,

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so they cut off both his arms

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and then set him on the side of the road

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so people would feel sorry
for him and give him money.

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That's when I decided

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that I wanted to fight human trafficking.

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- You get over there,

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and they're bringing these
10-year-olds into their rooms,

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and, "Oh, that must be somebody

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"that's taking care of their boots,"

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and no, they ain't.

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Yeah, they're taking care
of 'em, but not in that way.

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You know, it's just, it floors you.

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- If you take a young boy of 12

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and he is anally raped by 30 or 40 men,

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and then he is made to kill his mother

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by inserting barbwire in
her vagina repeatedly,

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somewhere in that process,
his soul is broken.

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And I think that is the real legacy

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of child sexual abuse

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and the horrendous thing
which is sexual trafficking.

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(scoffs) It's pretty fucked up. (chuckles)

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(birds chirp)

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(slow music)

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- What's cool about this film

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is that we actually really had
no idea what we were doing.

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(chuckles)

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We were just moved by a vision,

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we were just moved by the movement,

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we were just moved by the idea

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that we can possibly make a difference,

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and an impact, and raise awareness,

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and inspire the youth to take action.

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This is a nonprofit film, I'm a monk,

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and so there's no personal gain for me,

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or for our center,

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the gain is impact, reach, awareness,

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people can possibly change.

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And so, during the research phase

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of searching for people to interview,

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it was a scary process,

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well, at least for me,

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I think the others were
good with sending an email,

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but for me to approach
these organizations,

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and high-level people, and
nonprofits like UNICEF,

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it's kind of intimidating.

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I introduce myself, like, "Hey, I'm a nun,

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"I'm a US veteran,

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"and I'm directing this film

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"to help raise awareness
on sex trafficking

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"by inspiring the youth movement,"

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and all of them were just like,

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"Yes, it's all about the
youth, let's do this."

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We really went into this
project with no expectations,

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all we wanted to understand
was what sex trafficking was

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and how we can be of help

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by raising awareness of this issue.

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So we were inspired to
travel to the Philippines,

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Mexico, and New Orleans,
and even locally, Dallas,

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to meet the heroes of the movement,

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but it turns out what we
were initially looking for

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was completely different.

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We just wanted to know
what sex trafficking was,

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and we thought it was
pretty straightforward,

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but really,

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it turned out to be something
completely different,

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and we had a bunch of misconceptions.

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- This is a difficult question.

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(dramatic music)

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And in fact, historians can
be useful in this process.

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- A lot of us, we think
that ended 200 years ago,

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with the Emancipation Proclamation,

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it absolutely did not.

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- A recent work by Joseph Miller

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called The Problem of Slavery as History

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encouraged historians and others
to talk less about slavery

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and more about slaving.

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When we use the word slavery,

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we're conjuring an institution,

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and an institution that most people

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associate with chattel slavery,

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with the Transatlantic slave
trade, these kinds of things,

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and that institution did in
fact die in the United States,

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but if we look at slaving,

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that is the ways of maintaining unfreedom,

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commodifying the body,

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all of the practices that really make up

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the constitutive experience

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of what it means to be enslaved,

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then slaving certainly doesn't stop,

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it maintains, it morphs, and it continues.

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- Look, I mean, it's a
tough sell to a lotta people

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because it's a subject matter

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that a lotta people don't wanna deal with,

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it's just kinda uncomfortable.

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I think the missing piece for me

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was the scale of this crime,

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where it's 20, 30 million
people a year worldwide,

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and it's, like, a huge industry.

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- And I've been working in this field

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for almost 25 years already.

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Because the victim really
younger and younger.

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The youngest victim that
we cater in this shelter

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is a one-year-old girl,

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sold to sex, cybersex.

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- Down in a lot of South
American countries,

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I've been involved with some guys

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that do the rescues from sex traffickers,

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and one of the guys goes down there,

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he's involved in a great organization,

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a couple of them I know,

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and they go down there

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and they act as people
coming down to buy girls,

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American real estate moguls
coming down to buy girls,

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and they set up the deal,

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they get a big suite in a hotel,

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and they do deals with the local cartels.

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And it's simply a spreadsheet.

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The guy brings in a spreadsheet,

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he says, "Well, what age
girl do you wanna buy?

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"If you wanna buy a 12-year-old girl,

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"it's going to be $20,000,

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"because that's how much
money she'll make me,

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"if you'd wanna buy a 16-year-old girl,

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"and I've had her for four years,

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"well, you can get her
for three or four grand."

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And they've got the
whole thing worked out,

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it's a business,

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and it's a business based on prostitution

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that's really enabled by tourism.

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And I've got some great friends

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involved in recovery on that end,

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and they do a fantastic job,

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but those guys will tell you,

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because of the level
of depravity they see,

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for every 10 girls they rescue,

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they're leaving hundreds,
if not thousands, behind.

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That next week, another American
tourist, male or female,

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is going to be down there
demanding to buy children for sex.

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- I was working half
of my life doing this.

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I'm always running there and
there, rescue, in the port,

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in the airport, anywhere. (chuckles)

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It doesn't stop, it's just continue.

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And there's a time come that I said,

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"Oh,

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"it will never stop."

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(dramatic music)

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("Steady" by Kingslynn)

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- Parents try to find
different ways of survival,

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but also finding ways out

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for their children.

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I think, unfortunately,

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many parents do sell their
children cold-heartedly,

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but many parents are also
fooled into believing

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that these children are
moving on to a better future,

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if you like.

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Very few children here, it
seems, are actually kidnapped,

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taken off the street and
then sent for trafficking,

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they are actually handed
over by their parents

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one way or another.

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But these are small kids being
told to carry out sexual acts

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with themselves or with another child,

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of course it's abuse.

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And so there is a
twisted mindset, I think,

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among parents who

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don't want to admit or realize

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that they are actually committing a crime

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and that they are allowing abuse

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to happen to their children.

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- These boys, a lot of them
were from a country, Thailand,

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where they didn't even
speak mainstream Thai,

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they spoke different dialects,

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or they'd come from Cambodia,
Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia,

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different countries,

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and they'd just be taken.

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The traffickers, they'd
go to their hometowns,

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and they'd tell the parents, "Listen,

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"you can't afford to feed your kids,

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"we can give your kid a job in Bangkok,

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"he'll work in a restaurant,
he'll wash dishes,

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"he'll make maybe 5,000 baht a month,

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"we'll send some of
that money back to you,"

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and these parents, they
don't have a choice,

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they can't feed their kids,

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so they send them, and then, of course,

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these kids, they don't
work in restaurants.

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They're either sexually exploited

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as male prostitutes for
gay men in Thailand,

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or they're put on the streets as beggars,

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or they're even made to steal.

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So those are the sort of situations

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that these boys are coming out of.

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And they're so young, some
as young as four years old,

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4-16 was the ages at this school.

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- People know that they
can get people vulnerable,

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so they kidnap them, literally.

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(dramatic music)

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And they took them, by
force, to work in fields,

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or in drugs,

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or in criminal actions,

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or in sexual exploitation.

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- If this is all you
experience day to day,

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then you don't know of anything else.

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If you're expecting to
be treated a certain way,

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if you're expecting the
only form of affection

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to come through sexual contact,

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that if you wanna be touched at all,

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then you behave in a certain way

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and you receive that human
touch through sexuality,

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then that's what you go looking for,

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'cause we all need touch.

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I think if you're brought
up in the environment,

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and you don't know it's different,

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then you don't know

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that there's something else
out there that's different,

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so you don't actually see yourself

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as a victim of trafficking

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unless it's happened later in life.

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If it's happened early, or abuse is early,

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then that's all you ever know.

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So there's no reason to cry out.

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I know that sounds odd,

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but if you're 16

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and you've been having
sex since you were four,

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then those 12 years are the
only memories that you have,

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they would never know that
there was a life outside that.

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(dramatic music)

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- The most hurtful,

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the most traumatic
experience a child could have

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are both physical and sexual
abuse happens in the home,

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by their own parents.

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- In an article I just read by
a woman that was engaged by,

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I think it was the FBI,

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they were involved in the investigation

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of child pornography in America,

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she was encouraged by a
friend to turn the volume down

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on the videos when she watched it,

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and she decided not to,

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so she would turn the volume up,

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and she said the haunting
thing that was for her

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is that not one of these
children made a sound.

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One case, there was a man,
a father, a stepfather,

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videoing having sex with his daughter,

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father, six-year-old daughter,

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videoing on a Handycam
while he's penetrating her,

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and this little girl,

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her eyes glazed over

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and she looked away and
didn't make a sound.

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And the woman said

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that that was the most horrendous
part of the entire thing.

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Somehow they thought it was okay

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to engage with a sexual act with a child,

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so I wonder what they had
done to get to that point.

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How can you...

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As a man,

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I can't understand how
penetrating a prepubescent child

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could bring any form
of sexual satisfaction.

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There's gotta be a level
of brokenness and depravity

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that's happening at some level.

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Kids, when they're constantly abused,

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a child gets in a place
where it's trying to survive,

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and it'll do anything it can to survive.

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(music plays in bars)
(indistinct chatter)

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- One of the things that we know

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is that most women who end up trafficked

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were severely abused either
sexually or physically

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when they were children.

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We now know that early
trauma affects the brain,

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and we also know that if your brain

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is suffering from trauma,

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you will become a vulnerable teenager,

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and that is when young women

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are recruited into sex trafficking.

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(dramatic music)

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Once young women have "hooked up"

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with a trafficker or a pimp,

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then, very often, force is
used and coercion is used,

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and that is what makes
it into sex trafficking.

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So you might be lured
into the arms of someone,

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of a potential boyfriend,

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who turns out to be a pimp

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by the promise of, "Ah, we're
gonna be staying in hotels,

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"we're gonna go to discos,
we're gonna do drugs,

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"you're gonna have great clothes,"

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and that then very quickly

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becomes something quite different.

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- There is a consensus
that something like this,

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(dramatic music)

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sex slavery, sex trafficking,

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is only happening in third-world countries

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where people maybe don't necessarily care,

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they turn a blind eye,

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which is completely untrue.

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There are cities across the US

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where it is a daily-basis issue,

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and living in Los Angeles,
it is one of the main hubs.

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A lot of towns along the border of Mexico,

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it's very easy to get girls
and put them right into Mexico

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and then move them
wherever they need to go.

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It's a very lucrative business
for those that take children,

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and take women, and take men,

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it's a $32 billion a year business,

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and the average cost for a slave is $90.

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So there's quite (chuckles)

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an uneven balance there monetarily,

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and the US is one of the top countries

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where these slaves come from.

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- I find this all the time, right,

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that people say, "This is a
problem outside of Houston,

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"this is a problem outside of Texas,

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"outside of the United States,"

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this is a much bigger problem

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than what you might imagine it to be.

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(dramatic music)

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It's not just something that
happens in other places,

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that indeed it's happening here,

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and I think there are
many who would say demand,

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because of our affluence,

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is greater in the United States

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than in almost any other place.

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People wanna make money
with this industry,

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and a place where there's a lotta money

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is here in the United States,

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and so,

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whether they're domestic
girls or international girls,

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trafficking is here with us
here in the United States.

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("Remembering" by Chad Lawson)

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(indistinct chatter)

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- Of course I was getting
stares from a bunch of people

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while walking in the red-light district.

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I'm wearing white,

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so it's definitely like

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I wasn't going undercover or anything,

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and so, for them to look, and be cautious,

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and then, in my mind, I'm just
trying to say some mantras,

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I'm trying to say some,
like, really good sounds

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and send out some prayers for the girls,

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that if by chance their
soul would hear me,

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like, "Hey, stay strong,"
like, "Fight, escape,

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"do whatever it is you
need to do to get out,

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"people are ready to help you,"

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and all I could do was send those thoughts

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as I'm walking down the strip.

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(dramatic music)

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It's just, it's such a
different way of life,

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there's girls selling their body

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and then there's me, a monk. (chuckles)

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It was definitely an
interesting experience,

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because they're curious,

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like, what are you doing there?

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I just hope that they found some peace.

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("A Friend" by Entertainment
for the Braindead)

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(woman talks in foreign language)

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♪ How can you tell me ♪

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♪ That I am made needed ♪

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♪ If that need isn't even yours ♪

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♪ The more I wonder but ♪

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♪ Don't understand it ♪

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♪ The more it loses its contours ♪

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♪ If you wanna walk away ♪

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♪ Walk far enough so I won't find you ♪

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♪ Or if you'd rather choose to stay ♪

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♪ Then take your time for me ♪

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(indistinct chatter)

00:23:34.814 --> 00:23:35.647
(knocks on door)

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(kicks in door)

00:23:36.729 --> 00:23:39.812
(indistinct chatter)

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♪ I tell myself that ♪

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♪ It doesn't matter ♪

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♪ That it's of no concern to me ♪

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♪ That it's of no concern to me ♪

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- Unless we're prepared to look at

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the darkness within our own soul

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and then have a look at

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the condition in our world that caused it,

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then we're never going to be
able to progress and grow.

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- A lot of this is just
ignorance, I think,

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people just don't know,

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and they don't wanna know.

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I think that's what is at

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the root of a lot of these problems,

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that people don't have enough compassion

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for other human beings.

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And I think that's what has to be changed.

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'Cause if you really knew that girl,

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if you really cared,

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if somebody knew what she
went through and everything,

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I'm sure there's no way

00:24:44.370 --> 00:24:46.720
this guy would wanna pay
and have sex with her.

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Right? I don't think so.

00:24:51.005 --> 00:24:52.280
He'd probably wanna take her outta there

00:24:52.280 --> 00:24:55.067
and beat the hell out
of those guys, you know?

00:25:08.290 --> 00:25:11.373
(indistinct chatter)

00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:46.932
(sirens blare)

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- We've got supply, that means...

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If there wasn't a demand for it,

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there would not be no supply for it.

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So again,

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in order for us to address the
issue of sexual trafficking,

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it's not just a matter of rescuing girls

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that have been kidnapped

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or boys that have been kidnapped,

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at some point, you have
to ask the question,

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what has happened to us

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that we actually crave and desire that?

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What happens to us as men and women

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that that's what satisfies us

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and makes us feel complete
in a very intimate way?

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And I think only when we
start to answer that question

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do we ever have a hope

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of truly stopping sexual trafficking.

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:42.793
(indistinct chatter)

00:26:46.150 --> 00:26:49.667
- How do we stop guys
from saying and thinking,

00:26:49.667 --> 00:26:53.560
"It's okay for me to go
out and buy these girls"?

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So, part of the way that we stop demand

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is you change the culture,

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sort of this idea of boys will be boys,

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and when you think of your average buyer,

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I think people sometimes
think that they're pedophiles

00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:11.560
or they're people that are
specifically after girls,

00:27:11.560 --> 00:27:13.320
but I think what we see more than anything

00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:16.300
is that these are men
who want young women,

00:27:16.300 --> 00:27:18.980
and they don't know
whether they're 15 or 21,

00:27:18.980 --> 00:27:20.800
but they want these young women,

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and it becomes very easy for them,

00:27:23.080 --> 00:27:24.720
and these are guys

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that anything from sort
of middle class and above,

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but also, sometimes we see
in these Latino cantinas,

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that the average salary is not very high

00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:37.300
with some of these people,

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so I think it's a broad spectrum

00:27:39.540 --> 00:27:43.160
of these men that are buying these girls,

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but the common denominator for these men

00:27:45.610 --> 00:27:48.110
is that they feel like it's very easy

00:27:48.110 --> 00:27:51.933
for them to buy a girl and
have quick sex, basically.

00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.450
And so we're seeing this
time and time again,

00:27:56.612 --> 00:27:58.180
that if we're gonna end demand,

00:27:58.180 --> 00:28:01.930
it's all about making it
scarier, making it harder,

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and sort of eliminating a culture

00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:06.560
where it's okay to do this.

00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:07.940
It's always a gamble,

00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:12.850
is it worth a gamble to go
online and buy this girl

00:28:12.850 --> 00:28:14.650
when you might be arrested?

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Most men would say it's
not worth a gamble,

00:28:17.210 --> 00:28:19.830
but when you live in a
city where if you gamble,

00:28:19.830 --> 00:28:22.820
you always win, and when you gamble,

00:28:22.820 --> 00:28:24.563
you're never going to be arrested,

00:28:26.210 --> 00:28:27.820
a place like Houston,

00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:29.320
you're gonna go gamble more often,

00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:31.500
you're going to buy sex more often

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.200
if you feel like there
are no repercussions

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:35.610
to you buying young women.

00:28:35.610 --> 00:28:38.760
- Unfortunately, some
people, just, to them,

00:28:38.760 --> 00:28:40.790
ignorance is bliss, and
they don't wanna know,

00:28:40.790 --> 00:28:43.810
because it's tough stuff to
know, it doesn't leave you,

00:28:43.810 --> 00:28:47.423
and so, they would rather just
go on about their merry day,

00:28:48.338 --> 00:28:50.923
and sadly, that's very prevalent,

00:28:52.515 --> 00:28:53.950
just in general,

00:28:53.950 --> 00:28:56.860
people don't wanna know

00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:01.470
the reality of what's going
on behind closed doors,

00:29:01.470 --> 00:29:02.450
and in their communities,

00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:05.270
and across the nation,
and all over the world.

00:29:05.270 --> 00:29:07.513
It's a hard thing to talk about.

00:29:08.451 --> 00:29:09.700
- The problem with sex trafficking,

00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:11.010
the problem with sex,

00:29:11.010 --> 00:29:13.930
the problem with child sexual
abuse for boys and girls

00:29:13.930 --> 00:29:15.400
is that it's all taboo,

00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.160
can't talk about it,

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.910
you're not supposed to talk
about those dirty topics.

00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:22.250
One in five girls are assaulted,

00:29:22.250 --> 00:29:24.820
boys are assaulted too,

00:29:24.820 --> 00:29:27.240
and especially with the
way society treats men,

00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:28.860
men can't even express themselves,

00:29:28.860 --> 00:29:30.670
they just hold their stuff in,

00:29:30.670 --> 00:29:32.450
and sometimes, in crazy cases,

00:29:32.450 --> 00:29:34.340
the victims become the victimizers,

00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:36.340
and you'll hear that story.

00:29:36.340 --> 00:29:39.310
And so we have to think bigger,

00:29:39.310 --> 00:29:42.400
we have to raise our voice
to say it's not okay,

00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.263
enough is enough.

00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:46.400
- It's a taboo,

00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:50.370
it's something that we
don't wanna talk about,

00:29:50.370 --> 00:29:55.370
and I think this is also where
gender roles are coming in.

00:29:56.850 --> 00:29:59.210
Men are not willing to talk about

00:29:59.210 --> 00:30:01.330
the extent of which they
have been victimized,

00:30:01.330 --> 00:30:03.490
whether they've been
victims of trafficking,

00:30:03.490 --> 00:30:08.490
or whether they've been victims
of male-on-male violence.

00:30:09.190 --> 00:30:11.510
We don't exist in a world

00:30:11.510 --> 00:30:13.927
where young boys can stand up and say,

00:30:13.927 --> 00:30:14.773
"Hey,

00:30:16.627 --> 00:30:18.910
"I'm being sexually abused."

00:30:18.910 --> 00:30:19.790
We're beginning to make

00:30:19.790 --> 00:30:22.290
a little bit of inroads with bullying,

00:30:22.290 --> 00:30:25.900
and I hope that that
will create an atmosphere

00:30:25.900 --> 00:30:29.290
in which more male
victims can come forward.

00:30:29.290 --> 00:30:30.890
- Well, at first, it made me really mad

00:30:30.890 --> 00:30:33.800
to know that I lived in
this country for 14 years

00:30:33.800 --> 00:30:35.556
and I had never even heard of this.

00:30:35.556 --> 00:30:38.306
(dramatic music)

00:30:45.155 --> 00:30:46.430
And if it's such a big crime,

00:30:46.430 --> 00:30:48.570
it's affecting 27 million people,

00:30:48.570 --> 00:30:49.700
why aren't we talking about it?

00:30:49.700 --> 00:30:51.330
So that made me really mad,

00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:53.827
and then it made me wanna
do something about it.

00:30:58.036 --> 00:31:00.786
(dramatic music)

00:31:54.496 --> 00:31:56.880
- At the Center of Hope,
there were 43 girls,

00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:59.280
and I just heard from
the director yesterday,

00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:00.543
now there's 50.

00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:03.080
The numbers shouldn't be increasing,

00:32:03.080 --> 00:32:04.856
they should be decreasing.

00:32:04.856 --> 00:32:07.606
(dramatic music)

00:32:16.170 --> 00:32:19.330
- Technology has made it very easy

00:32:19.330 --> 00:32:21.960
on the trafficking industry.

00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:23.500
It's made it very easy for those

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:26.040
that want to buy a young girl.

00:32:26.040 --> 00:32:28.240
You only need to go on your computer,

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.560
and probably faster than a
pizza can be delivered here,

00:32:31.560 --> 00:32:34.593
we could have a young girl
delivered to your home.

00:32:36.150 --> 00:32:40.170
I think that social media and technology

00:32:40.170 --> 00:32:42.360
is really sort of the driver

00:32:42.360 --> 00:32:45.003
in terms of this explosive
growth that we're seeing.

00:32:48.370 --> 00:32:51.180
- A lotta things that are
trending with the new technology

00:32:51.180 --> 00:32:55.860
are webcams, cybersex,
cybersex trafficking.

00:32:55.860 --> 00:32:58.720
Guys are making money,
girls are making money

00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.470
from putting children
in front of a webcam,

00:33:01.470 --> 00:33:03.263
and there are these perverted
people around the world

00:33:03.263 --> 00:33:06.247
that are like, "Yep, I wanna
watch a little Asian kid."

00:33:07.221 --> 00:33:09.138
(gags)

00:33:11.250 --> 00:33:13.900
- You're talking about the
commodification of bodies,

00:33:14.930 --> 00:33:16.750
the consumption of bodies,

00:33:16.750 --> 00:33:18.010
and these are being moved along

00:33:18.010 --> 00:33:19.810
the same networks of capitalist exchange

00:33:19.810 --> 00:33:22.050
that are transferring other goods.

00:33:22.050 --> 00:33:23.780
- There's no profile of white,

00:33:23.780 --> 00:33:26.660
black, Latino, or Asian who's buying this,

00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:29.920
'cause it's happening
all across the board,

00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.140
and sometimes it's guys
that you would think

00:33:34.230 --> 00:33:36.950
they should really be spending
this money on their family,

00:33:36.950 --> 00:33:38.020
but they're taking this money

00:33:38.020 --> 00:33:40.363
and they're spending it on a woman.

00:33:41.300 --> 00:33:44.500
I think there are lots of examples of guys

00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:46.340
that sort of have become addicted to this,

00:33:46.340 --> 00:33:49.200
that this is something they do a lot,

00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.500
and you see this through
some of the review sites

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:54.330
where it's the same guys
that are doing this,

00:33:54.330 --> 00:33:57.610
it's sort of become a hobby
or something with them,

00:33:57.610 --> 00:33:58.980
but you see plenty of other guys

00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:00.560
that do it once or twice a year,

00:34:00.560 --> 00:34:03.020
you see guys who do it on vacation,

00:34:03.020 --> 00:34:05.610
but I think when we're talking about

00:34:05.610 --> 00:34:07.779
some of these Texas cities though,

00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:09.490
it's not happening because people

00:34:09.490 --> 00:34:12.190
are doing vacations or business trips,

00:34:12.190 --> 00:34:14.280
it's happening because it's easy.

00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:16.670
- Each person that's a
victim of human trafficking

00:34:16.670 --> 00:34:17.610
is a person,

00:34:17.610 --> 00:34:18.700
they're someone's daughter,

00:34:18.700 --> 00:34:20.440
someone's sister, someone's mother,

00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.210
or someone's son, 'cause boys,
they're trafficked as well,

00:34:23.210 --> 00:34:24.530
and we need to see them that way,

00:34:24.530 --> 00:34:26.660
we need to stop thinking
of this as a statistic.

00:34:26.660 --> 00:34:28.737
27 million is a big number,

00:34:28.737 --> 00:34:30.260
but we need to break that down

00:34:30.260 --> 00:34:32.420
and stop seeing it as 27 million,

00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:33.650
some huge, big number,

00:34:33.650 --> 00:34:37.000
we need to think of that
as 27 million human beings,

00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.800
a Kathy, a Betty, an Amir,
a Daniel, human beings,

00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.500
and once we see it that way,

00:34:42.500 --> 00:34:44.120
we are not gonna be able to tolerate this,

00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:44.953
and we will,

00:34:44.953 --> 00:34:47.190
as a direct result of
realizing that our sisters,

00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:48.940
and our brothers, and our children

00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:51.830
are being tortured and raped
in these terrible ways,

00:34:51.830 --> 00:34:53.120
then we're gonna do something.

00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:56.510
- I have a friend, the
mother of Lisette Soto,

00:34:56.510 --> 00:34:58.973
nine years old, she was up here,

00:34:58.973 --> 00:35:00.320
and everything indicated

00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:03.890
that she was sold to Americans in a yacht,

00:35:03.890 --> 00:35:08.390
so that girl could be the
woman that you are buying,

00:35:08.390 --> 00:35:13.110
and you are so selfish because
the parents are barely alive,

00:35:13.110 --> 00:35:14.770
crying every night,

00:35:14.770 --> 00:35:17.650
praying to God that their
daughter will appear.

00:35:17.650 --> 00:35:20.650
So, anytime we are so selfish,

00:35:20.650 --> 00:35:23.290
and we don't think of the others,

00:35:23.290 --> 00:35:25.513
we make a lot of pain in this world.

00:35:32.074 --> 00:35:34.824
(dramatic music)

00:36:16.030 --> 00:36:17.060
- When it's personalized,

00:36:17.060 --> 00:36:19.970
when you encounter a survivor's narrative,

00:36:19.970 --> 00:36:21.590
it's emotionally impactful,

00:36:21.590 --> 00:36:23.873
but what do we do with
that emotional reaction?

00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:26.130
One of the things that I find

00:36:26.130 --> 00:36:27.820
that a lot of American students react

00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:32.230
is they immediately
want violence, in a way.

00:36:32.230 --> 00:36:34.090
There's something about
the way our culture works

00:36:34.090 --> 00:36:35.390
that the solution to every problem

00:36:35.390 --> 00:36:37.200
is some sort of military intervention

00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:39.090
or some sort of law enforcement crackdown,

00:36:39.090 --> 00:36:40.880
it's some sort of use of violence.

00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.530
So what I try to show students

00:36:42.530 --> 00:36:44.840
is that the ways in
which these interventions

00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.630
often exacerbate problems of trafficking,

00:36:47.630 --> 00:36:48.510
and we've gotta look at

00:36:48.510 --> 00:36:50.160
the more structural issues of poverty

00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:52.610
if we wanna actually make a difference.

00:36:52.610 --> 00:36:54.893
- Poverty, and trauma,

00:36:57.259 --> 00:36:59.900
and drug addiction create opportunities

00:36:59.900 --> 00:37:03.043
that are being exploited by traffickers.

00:37:04.850 --> 00:37:07.430
Some women are snatched on the street,

00:37:07.430 --> 00:37:09.500
I don't wanna discount that narrative,

00:37:09.500 --> 00:37:13.190
but it is not what happens to 99% of women

00:37:13.190 --> 00:37:14.850
who end up being trafficked.

00:37:14.850 --> 00:37:18.430
I see a lot of panhandling as
a form of human trafficking,

00:37:18.430 --> 00:37:20.370
and we see that all over the world.

00:37:20.370 --> 00:37:23.050
Those who are weakest, and women included,

00:37:23.050 --> 00:37:25.810
become targets for traffickers.

00:37:25.810 --> 00:37:28.310
(birds chirp)

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.890
I think when you begin to lift the veil

00:37:36.220 --> 00:37:40.960
that exists around the
trafficking women in our society,

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.210
then it becomes scary.

00:37:43.210 --> 00:37:45.140
(dramatic music)

00:37:45.140 --> 00:37:49.220
- There's a line in Fight Club,

00:37:49.220 --> 00:37:53.200
Edward Norton goes
loose on a blond-headed,

00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:54.530
short-haired kid in the film,

00:37:54.530 --> 00:37:57.290
and the protagonist,
Brad Pitt, he's older,

00:37:57.290 --> 00:37:58.970
he goes, he says, "Why did you do that?"

00:37:58.970 --> 00:38:02.480
He says, "I just wanted to
destroy something beautiful."

00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:04.910
And unfortunately, there's a
group of people in our society

00:38:04.910 --> 00:38:08.251
that take great joy in
destroying something beautiful,

00:38:08.251 --> 00:38:09.411
and there's nothing more beautiful

00:38:09.411 --> 00:38:11.891
than the smile of a little
boy or a little girl.

00:38:11.891 --> 00:38:16.058
("Sur L'Ocean" by Elise Melinand)

00:38:39.831 --> 00:38:42.581
(dramatic music)

00:38:52.172 --> 00:38:56.339
("Sur L'Ocean" by Elise Melinand)

00:41:15.991 --> 00:41:18.741
(dramatic music)

00:41:19.810 --> 00:41:23.247
- "I was young when it
happened, old when he left.

00:41:23.247 --> 00:41:24.843
"He came when it rained.

00:41:25.867 --> 00:41:28.699
"He said, 'Lie still, hold still,

00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:31.857
"'I'll do it, don't
struggle, no one will know,'

00:41:31.857 --> 00:41:35.657
"but they can all tell,
they see it, they know it,

00:41:35.657 --> 00:41:37.177
"I'm defiled, soiled,

00:41:37.177 --> 00:41:40.360
"skewed like excrement on a sacred hall.

00:41:41.537 --> 00:41:43.547
"He came telling me it
would make me a man,

00:41:43.547 --> 00:41:45.877
"he came telling me it wouldn't last long,

00:41:45.877 --> 00:41:48.337
"he came telling me it wouldn't hurt.

00:41:48.337 --> 00:41:49.917
"Then why does it still ache?

00:41:49.917 --> 00:41:51.817
"Why does it never stop?

00:41:51.817 --> 00:41:53.397
"I lie awake pretending to sleep,

00:41:53.397 --> 00:41:55.757
"hating the nights, dreading the dreams,

00:41:55.757 --> 00:41:58.437
"puddles in the corner of my soul,

00:41:58.437 --> 00:42:01.835
"fearing the rain, longing for sunshine."

00:42:01.835 --> 00:42:04.585
(dramatic music)

00:42:11.450 --> 00:42:14.380
- I'm kind of embarrassed to
say that up until being 27,

00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:16.990
I had never heard of
human trafficking before.

00:42:16.990 --> 00:42:19.070
The first glimpse I got was,

00:42:19.070 --> 00:42:21.730
my family still has a lot of
family at home in Vietnam,

00:42:21.730 --> 00:42:24.620
in Vietnam, your neighbor
could be your cousin,

00:42:24.620 --> 00:42:26.276
so I've got, like, the cousins, right?

00:42:26.276 --> 00:42:27.310
(dramatic music)

00:42:27.310 --> 00:42:29.550
On Facebook, I would
see, like, the cousins,

00:42:29.550 --> 00:42:31.270
like, I would send pictures...

00:42:31.270 --> 00:42:32.300
I would send them clothing,

00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:33.820
they would send me pictures of themselves

00:42:33.820 --> 00:42:34.770
styling up the clothing,

00:42:34.770 --> 00:42:36.170
it was really cool and everything,

00:42:36.170 --> 00:42:38.810
and then one particular cousin of mine,

00:42:38.810 --> 00:42:40.550
she was actually a neighbor to my mom

00:42:40.550 --> 00:42:42.670
when my mom was younger in Vietnam,

00:42:42.670 --> 00:42:46.713
she started styling the
clothing very promiscuously,

00:42:48.234 --> 00:42:50.860
and so I picked up on it

00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:52.630
and the next time I traveled to Vietnam,

00:42:52.630 --> 00:42:54.400
I started to hang out with
her a little bit more.

00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.037
So I said, "Where do you hang out?

00:42:56.037 --> 00:42:57.230
"Show me where you'd go,"

00:42:57.230 --> 00:42:59.160
and she'd take me to these coffee shops

00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:01.400
where, like, right off the bat,

00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:06.400
what I noticed was a lot of
really sexy-dressed young women

00:43:07.090 --> 00:43:09.973
and a lot of American guys.

00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:14.930
Found out that she was working there,

00:43:14.930 --> 00:43:16.580
she was tending to the men there,

00:43:18.388 --> 00:43:21.330
and later, when I asked
her why she worked there,

00:43:21.330 --> 00:43:23.700
she said that it was a
deal made by her uncle,

00:43:23.700 --> 00:43:25.500
and that she couldn't get out of it.

00:43:27.160 --> 00:43:30.860
She was so afraid to tell me all of this

00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:34.040
because of what her uncle could do.

00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:35.390
So I looked into it,

00:43:35.390 --> 00:43:36.860
and I realized that this is the thing

00:43:36.860 --> 00:43:38.730
that's called sex trafficking,

00:43:38.730 --> 00:43:40.910
and that there's so many
different angles to it,

00:43:40.910 --> 00:43:42.483
that's just one story.

00:43:47.090 --> 00:43:51.640
I met girls that were,
let's see, from 9-13

00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:56.470
who had had sexual
encounters with, on average,

00:43:56.470 --> 00:44:00.113
about 20-25 men a night.

00:44:03.216 --> 00:44:05.950
I also met women (sobs)

00:44:12.410 --> 00:44:15.330
who had been raped,

00:44:15.330 --> 00:44:16.260
and they would get pregnant

00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:19.920
from the clients of the brothels,

00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.390
and then they would
have to abort the child,

00:44:22.390 --> 00:44:25.740
but because it's a sin to
abort a child in Thailand,

00:44:25.740 --> 00:44:27.160
and also with their faith,

00:44:27.160 --> 00:44:28.700
they would then have to take the fetus

00:44:28.700 --> 00:44:32.100
and lay it outside of the
doorway of the brothel

00:44:32.100 --> 00:44:34.350
just to kind of ask for
forgiveness for sins.

00:44:42.690 --> 00:44:44.107
I met young girls

00:44:47.092 --> 00:44:48.370
in shelters in Vietnam

00:44:48.370 --> 00:44:53.020
who had scars all up and down their arms

00:44:53.020 --> 00:44:55.313
just to mark who they belonged to,

00:44:56.520 --> 00:44:59.190
and just watching them
sit and sift their shirts

00:45:01.139 --> 00:45:02.520
and just feel so inadequate

00:45:02.520 --> 00:45:06.023
with their own skin that
they're in was, like,

00:45:07.020 --> 00:45:08.373
it's just disgusting.

00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:12.640
- A lot of people have been assaulted,

00:45:12.640 --> 00:45:14.350
molested, or raped in this world,

00:45:14.350 --> 00:45:18.740
and a lot of people are
getting raped every single day,

00:45:18.740 --> 00:45:21.500
they're getting raped 30-40 times a day,

00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:24.370
and someone's just counting
some hundred dollar bills,

00:45:24.370 --> 00:45:26.010
and just smiling, and gambling,

00:45:26.010 --> 00:45:27.763
and drinking, and doing drugs.

00:45:30.600 --> 00:45:32.800
But you know what it's like to be raped?

00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:33.673
What's rape?

00:45:34.630 --> 00:45:36.000
Rape is...

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.870
Holy moly, I can't even define
rape, rape is just wrong,

00:45:39.870 --> 00:45:43.203
rape is, you kill a person inside,

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:46.930
you make them dead.

00:45:46.930 --> 00:45:50.380
And can you imagine, when
you're being trafficked,

00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:53.143
you're dying 30-40 times a day.

00:45:54.890 --> 00:45:57.860
Your soul is being totally ripped apart.

00:45:57.860 --> 00:46:00.070
Your sense of aliveness,
your sense of identity,

00:46:00.070 --> 00:46:03.220
your sense of just your own inner power

00:46:03.220 --> 00:46:05.920
is ripped away from you.

00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:07.050
Imagine that.

00:46:07.050 --> 00:46:09.770
And it's going on all the time.

00:46:09.770 --> 00:46:13.040
Every 30 seconds, someone's
being trafficked right now,

00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:14.920
someone's being raped right now,

00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:17.779
someone does not have a voice.

00:46:17.779 --> 00:46:21.431
(speaks in foreign language)

00:46:21.431 --> 00:46:24.181
(dramatic music)

00:46:41.179 --> 00:46:43.929
(dramatic music)

00:50:02.170 --> 00:50:05.043
(dramatic music)

00:50:05.043 --> 00:50:07.043
- I think the saddest part is also

00:50:07.043 --> 00:50:10.530
some of these kids are so
desensitized with knowing that...

00:50:10.530 --> 00:50:14.540
Like, there's the women that
are aware of being ashamed,

00:50:14.540 --> 00:50:15.373
okay, that's one thing,

00:50:15.373 --> 00:50:18.860
but then there's kids
who actually don't know

00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:22.930
that they're working for
mafia-type guys in Thailand,

00:50:22.930 --> 00:50:24.240
or in their circumference,

00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:25.520
and that they just think

00:50:25.520 --> 00:50:26.730
they're doing right for their families,

00:50:26.730 --> 00:50:28.890
so they're walking around
with menus of women,

00:50:28.890 --> 00:50:30.423
on what you can do with them,

00:50:31.300 --> 00:50:32.133
how these women can service you,

00:50:32.133 --> 00:50:34.450
how these little boys can lay with you,

00:50:34.450 --> 00:50:36.670
and they'll just run after you

00:50:36.670 --> 00:50:39.440
in the streets of these
countries trying to sell

00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:40.460
because this is their job

00:50:40.460 --> 00:50:41.520
and they feel like they're doing good

00:50:41.520 --> 00:50:43.520
because of whoever they're answering to.

00:50:44.540 --> 00:50:49.540
I would see grown men jump right
into cabs with little boys,

00:50:50.150 --> 00:50:53.513
sitting on their lap, I've
seen men play with little boys.

00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:57.200
It takes everything to not go

00:50:57.200 --> 00:51:00.380
and just wanna claw
these people's faces out,

00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:01.680
but that's not the answer.

00:51:02.860 --> 00:51:04.980
Going in on one disgusting person

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:07.223
is not going to save the bigger issue.

00:51:10.336 --> 00:51:11.850
So, those are some of
the images in my mind

00:51:11.850 --> 00:51:15.470
that will never leave until
I could do everything I can

00:51:15.470 --> 00:51:17.930
to put a stop to human trafficking.

00:51:17.930 --> 00:51:21.370
- My family's life on the
outside was very together,

00:51:21.370 --> 00:51:24.300
very prominent, very
good, highly-educated,

00:51:24.300 --> 00:51:26.050
very influential people.

00:51:26.050 --> 00:51:29.060
I'd never thought that my
childhood was abnormal,

00:51:29.060 --> 00:51:33.520
until I was 45, and it
struck me that it wasn't.

00:51:33.520 --> 00:51:36.223
I was never meant to
start having sex at four,

00:51:37.240 --> 00:51:38.793
but I had sex at four.

00:51:44.470 --> 00:51:47.280
I had to crawl up some lady's caftan

00:51:48.632 --> 00:51:50.032
and perform oral sex on her.

00:51:52.270 --> 00:51:57.143
If I didn't do a good job,
there was consequences for it.

00:51:57.978 --> 00:52:00.480
I was beaten for it or punished if I...

00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:03.340
Or I was rewarded with being allowed

00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:05.060
to participate at an activity,

00:52:05.060 --> 00:52:06.300
or taken to a party

00:52:09.151 --> 00:52:10.490
where I was used

00:52:10.490 --> 00:52:13.120
for sexual gratification.
(dramatic music)

00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:14.533
It does something to you.

00:52:16.203 --> 00:52:17.670
I don't know why they did it.

00:52:17.670 --> 00:52:19.920
I think she got aroused
watching him beat me,

00:52:21.611 --> 00:52:22.570
and he got aroused

00:52:25.640 --> 00:52:28.133
watching her engage me sexually.

00:52:32.240 --> 00:52:34.390
- As we're talking right now,

00:52:34.390 --> 00:52:35.740
somebody's being trafficked,

00:52:35.740 --> 00:52:37.000
somebody's being sold,

00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.610
somebody is crying

00:52:38.610 --> 00:52:40.120
because they're not gonna
return to their family,

00:52:40.120 --> 00:52:40.953
someone thinks that

00:52:40.953 --> 00:52:43.000
they're not gonna make
it past another year.

00:52:44.790 --> 00:52:47.661
It's happening right now,

00:52:47.661 --> 00:52:50.020
and it's insane that it
happens in your own back yard,

00:52:50.020 --> 00:52:52.050
trafficking happens everywhere.

00:52:52.050 --> 00:52:52.883
In fact,

00:52:52.883 --> 00:52:53.716
most people don't know

00:52:53.716 --> 00:52:55.460
that the number-one most popular event

00:52:55.460 --> 00:52:58.530
where trafficking is
happening is the Super Bowl.

00:52:58.530 --> 00:53:02.543
The Super Bowl is an event we
all look towards to celebrate,

00:53:05.631 --> 00:53:07.570
and have a fun time with
your friends, and be crazy,

00:53:07.570 --> 00:53:09.460
and at that exact moment,

00:53:09.460 --> 00:53:12.410
there are thousands of trafficked women

00:53:12.410 --> 00:53:13.930
coming in to service men.

00:53:13.930 --> 00:53:15.960
And that's something that happens

00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:17.130
right under our very own eyes,

00:53:17.130 --> 00:53:19.120
I've been at the Super Bowl celebrating,

00:53:19.120 --> 00:53:23.803
so just to be aware that it's everywhere.

00:53:41.441 --> 00:53:44.700
(speaks in foreign language)

00:53:44.700 --> 00:53:49.700
- Girls are for procreation
and boys are for pleasure.

00:53:50.070 --> 00:53:51.844
You hear something like that,

00:53:51.844 --> 00:53:53.569
and you're like, "No,
that's not really..."

00:53:53.569 --> 00:53:55.263
and then you hear about
it more and more and more.

00:53:55.263 --> 00:53:57.963
- Some of the guys I know
that served in the military,

00:53:59.260 --> 00:54:00.380
they knew that it was part

00:54:00.380 --> 00:54:03.003
of every Friday night in Afghanistan.

00:54:04.590 --> 00:54:07.833
Young boys would be taken
and forced into sexual acts.

00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:13.077
- All the guys get drunk
and everything else,

00:54:13.077 --> 00:54:14.490
and you see 'em walking around

00:54:14.490 --> 00:54:18.070
getting the kids out of elementary school,

00:54:18.070 --> 00:54:19.960
bring 'em back home, get everybody drunk,

00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:22.203
and lo and behold, they have a great time.

00:54:23.560 --> 00:54:25.410
- It wasn't just that they were used,

00:54:25.410 --> 00:54:27.500
the sex-trafficking thing,

00:54:27.500 --> 00:54:31.620
it was that the sex was used
as a tool to brutalize them,

00:54:31.620 --> 00:54:34.750
and totally break them
down, and deprave them,

00:54:34.750 --> 00:54:35.923
make them soulless.

00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:38.860
If you take a young boy of 12

00:54:39.720 --> 00:54:42.770
and he is anally raped by 30 or 40 men,

00:54:42.770 --> 00:54:46.090
and then he is made to kill his mother

00:54:46.090 --> 00:54:49.760
by inserting barbwire
in her vagina repeatedly

00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:51.583
and then chopping her head off,

00:54:52.570 --> 00:54:55.630
somewhere in that process,
his soul is broken,

00:54:55.630 --> 00:54:57.120
and he's destroyed,

00:54:57.120 --> 00:54:59.540
so then you've got the ideal soldier,

00:54:59.540 --> 00:55:02.040
someone who'll live for you
because you protect him,

00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:03.430
you care for him,

00:55:03.430 --> 00:55:06.080
and there's nothing in the
world for him to live for.

00:55:06.992 --> 00:55:09.842
And it's the same in Afghanistan
and around those places,

00:55:12.041 --> 00:55:14.750
it's not only the selling
of them in the trafficking,

00:55:14.750 --> 00:55:17.650
it's the very deliberate breaking down

00:55:17.650 --> 00:55:19.240
of these boys and girls

00:55:21.120 --> 00:55:23.500
as just objects and gratification.

00:55:23.500 --> 00:55:26.860
- A personal side for me to do this film

00:55:26.860 --> 00:55:29.790
and to raise my voice

00:55:29.790 --> 00:55:33.710
is because I was abused
when I was six years old.

00:55:33.710 --> 00:55:37.683
A painter grabbed me and
took me to the bathroom,

00:55:39.010 --> 00:55:41.640
and I remember lying there on the floor

00:55:41.640 --> 00:55:45.620
just looking at the bottom of the toilet,

00:55:45.620 --> 00:55:48.803
just feeling totally
empty and dead inside.

00:55:50.290 --> 00:55:51.633
And right after,

00:55:53.019 --> 00:55:55.517
he looked me in the eye, he
grabbed my arm, and he said,

00:55:55.517 --> 00:55:58.137
"If you tell anybody,

00:55:58.137 --> 00:56:01.597
"I will kill you and I
will kill your family,"

00:56:02.970 --> 00:56:04.170
and I never said a word.

00:56:05.300 --> 00:56:07.753
So I just kept silent,

00:56:09.150 --> 00:56:11.033
but that silence is stopping now.

00:56:12.326 --> 00:56:15.726
(woman speaks in foreign language)

00:56:15.726 --> 00:56:17.366
("Barracuda" by Luke Atencio)

00:56:17.366 --> 00:56:20.199
♪ One, two, three ♪

00:56:27.745 --> 00:56:30.676
- [All] I fight to end human trafficking.

00:56:30.676 --> 00:56:33.570
- [All] I fight, I fight, I fight!

00:56:33.570 --> 00:56:36.903
(cheering and applause)

00:56:42.222 --> 00:56:44.764
- (sighs) The power of the people.

00:56:44.764 --> 00:56:46.670
Power of the people.

00:56:46.670 --> 00:56:49.900
When you see a lot of
violence in this world,

00:56:49.900 --> 00:56:51.982
you're moved by it,

00:56:51.982 --> 00:56:55.160
and I believe if you have a heart,

00:56:55.160 --> 00:56:56.640
you wanna do something about it.

00:56:56.640 --> 00:56:59.250
You can't live your
life living in violence,

00:56:59.250 --> 00:57:00.330
you don't want your children

00:57:00.330 --> 00:57:02.380
to live in any kind of violence,

00:57:02.380 --> 00:57:04.233
so you wanna do something about it.

00:57:05.810 --> 00:57:08.380
There are activists on the line,

00:57:08.380 --> 00:57:10.220
putting their life on the line,

00:57:10.220 --> 00:57:12.380
to save these girls, to save these boys,

00:57:12.380 --> 00:57:14.500
and we don't hear their stories,

00:57:14.500 --> 00:57:16.850
and so I think as a movement,

00:57:16.850 --> 00:57:19.530
we get inspired by other people's stories,

00:57:19.530 --> 00:57:24.530
so this way, we have some kind
of idea of what's going on.

00:57:24.930 --> 00:57:26.980
We wanted to hear the ups, the downs,

00:57:26.980 --> 00:57:27.950
what keeps them going,

00:57:27.950 --> 00:57:29.293
what are the challenges?

00:57:31.130 --> 00:57:33.080
Everybody tries to be
perfect in this world,

00:57:33.080 --> 00:57:35.390
and they try to act as
if they have it together,

00:57:35.390 --> 00:57:36.650
but they don't,

00:57:36.650 --> 00:57:39.560
and to know the struggle,
to know their why,

00:57:39.560 --> 00:57:41.210
to know why they didn't quit,

00:57:41.210 --> 00:57:44.670
to know that this is what a
survivor had to do or believe in

00:57:44.670 --> 00:57:46.163
in order to escape.

00:57:47.075 --> 00:57:49.180
Or through a social movement,
we can bring about change,

00:57:49.180 --> 00:57:52.970
and if we focus on the movement
behind sex trafficking,

00:57:52.970 --> 00:57:54.470
behind human trafficking,

00:57:54.470 --> 00:57:57.313
then I believe, as a
world, we can end this.

00:58:01.993 --> 00:58:05.212
- [All] I fight to end human trafficking!

00:58:05.212 --> 00:58:07.379
I fight, I fight, I fight!

00:58:08.422 --> 00:58:11.755
(cheering and applause)

00:58:15.702 --> 00:58:19.952
(people speak in foreign language)

00:58:28.910 --> 00:58:31.743
- [All] I fight, I fight, I fight!

00:59:02.550 --> 00:59:05.420
- So oftentimes, when we
talk about trafficking,

00:59:05.420 --> 00:59:08.617
and people will say, "Is there
a way to do a knockout punch?

00:59:08.617 --> 00:59:12.119
"How do we really knock out
trafficking here in Houston?

00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:13.290
(bell dings)
"How do we knock out

00:59:13.290 --> 00:59:14.982
(bell dings)
"trafficking here in Texas,

00:59:14.982 --> 00:59:16.451
(bell dings)
"in the United States?"

00:59:16.451 --> 00:59:18.700
(bell dings)

00:59:18.700 --> 00:59:20.325
That's our clock.

00:59:20.325 --> 00:59:22.239
(laughter)

00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:23.980
(upbeat music)

00:59:23.980 --> 00:59:25.490
So saved by the bell.

00:59:36.630 --> 00:59:37.463
I'm often asked,

00:59:37.463 --> 00:59:40.257
"How do we knock out trafficking
in the United States?

00:59:40.257 --> 00:59:42.047
"What is the big knockout punch?"

00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.720
- I think we need to
think two ways about this,

00:59:47.720 --> 00:59:51.433
both in terms of individual
action and structural action.

00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.180
- It always feels difficult

00:59:54.180 --> 00:59:55.923
when you're in the midst of a fight.

00:59:57.240 --> 00:59:58.340
It's hard when you can't see

00:59:58.340 --> 00:59:59.780
the light at the end of the tunnel,

00:59:59.780 --> 01:00:02.572
but we just gotta keep moving
forward and be positive,

01:00:02.572 --> 01:00:04.730
and I think we can do it.

01:00:04.730 --> 01:00:07.640
- Unless we get together and
tell the world it's not okay,

01:00:07.640 --> 01:00:09.880
to tell the sex traffickers it's not okay,

01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:11.820
to tell the perverts it's not okay,

01:00:11.820 --> 01:00:13.950
to tell the pedophiles it's not okay,

01:00:13.950 --> 01:00:15.980
to tell the johns it's not okay,

01:00:15.980 --> 01:00:17.380
then it's gonna be okay.

01:00:17.380 --> 01:00:19.380
Everything's gonna be acceptable.

01:00:24.054 --> 01:00:28.554
("So Far Out" by Faded Paper Figures)

01:02:01.542 --> 01:02:02.653
- I think when we think
about specific things

01:02:02.653 --> 01:02:05.843
that we can do within
our community to stop,

01:02:07.750 --> 01:02:10.130
I think the idea of talking about this

01:02:10.130 --> 01:02:11.090
and letting people know

01:02:11.090 --> 01:02:14.310
that it's not just an international issue,

01:02:14.310 --> 01:02:16.160
that it's a domestic issue as well,

01:02:16.160 --> 01:02:19.230
I think that's important in
terms of growing this awareness.

01:02:19.230 --> 01:02:21.840
And letting people know where
trafficking is happening,

01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:26.720
and putting pressure on public
officials to change laws.

01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:28.860
There are plenty of examples of good laws,

01:02:28.860 --> 01:02:30.100
so you could find laws

01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:32.397
and you could bring them to
your public officials and say,

01:02:32.397 --> 01:02:34.760
"This needs to stop."

01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.890
- I don't know if we have any laws

01:02:37.890 --> 01:02:41.320
that actually protect women
from human trafficking,

01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.080
I know that we have plenty of laws

01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:47.120
that punish women for human trafficking.

01:02:47.120 --> 01:02:50.120
What I am beginning to see happen

01:02:50.120 --> 01:02:53.610
is legislation that is being passed

01:02:53.610 --> 01:02:57.460
that protects minors from trafficking.

01:02:57.460 --> 01:02:59.840
They very often become exempt

01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:02.130
from crimes they might've committed

01:03:03.860 --> 01:03:07.410
in the act of being trafficked.

01:03:07.410 --> 01:03:08.860
To what extent, however,

01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:12.260
those laws are enforced
is a different question.

01:03:12.260 --> 01:03:14.540
They look very good when
they're being drafted

01:03:14.540 --> 01:03:16.430
and signed in the state legislature,

01:03:16.430 --> 01:03:20.830
whether they trickle down all
the way to law enforcement

01:03:20.830 --> 01:03:21.950
is yet to be seen,

01:03:21.950 --> 01:03:24.510
but I think that is a start.

01:03:24.510 --> 01:03:26.653
- I think, also, in changing the culture.

01:03:27.730 --> 01:03:30.210
I think we've all known
young women who think,

01:03:30.210 --> 01:03:33.870
well, guys who go to strip
clubs, it's just what guys do,

01:03:33.870 --> 01:03:37.020
but I think guys and young
women alike need to be saying

01:03:37.020 --> 01:03:40.660
it's not what real guys do,
it's not what good guys do,

01:03:40.660 --> 01:03:42.100
because this is part of the problem.

01:03:42.100 --> 01:03:43.720
And we see these ties,
(slow music)

01:03:43.720 --> 01:03:46.710
there's a web between strip clubs,

01:03:46.710 --> 01:03:48.740
between sexually-oriented businesses

01:03:48.740 --> 01:03:51.170
and massage parlors and trafficking,

01:03:51.170 --> 01:03:53.070
and I think people need to understand

01:03:53.070 --> 01:03:54.420
this is all part of the web,

01:03:54.420 --> 01:03:56.660
and when we do one of these things,

01:03:56.660 --> 01:03:59.840
we're contributing to this
web of human trafficking.

01:03:59.840 --> 01:04:03.030
- As long as we see women as commodities

01:04:03.030 --> 01:04:04.860
that can be bought and sold,

01:04:04.860 --> 01:04:07.520
we will pay a price for sex.

01:04:07.520 --> 01:04:12.150
If we begin to see sex as
something that we cherish

01:04:12.150 --> 01:04:16.490
and that only happens consensually,

01:04:16.490 --> 01:04:19.260
then the demand would hopefully decrease.

01:04:19.260 --> 01:04:20.570
- Stop watching pornography,

01:04:20.570 --> 01:04:23.680
'cause pornography very directly
fuels human trafficking,

01:04:23.680 --> 01:04:26.740
and our generation,
especially, is porn-addicted,

01:04:26.740 --> 01:04:28.450
we watch it so much,

01:04:28.450 --> 01:04:30.660
and it directly fuels human trafficking.

01:04:30.660 --> 01:04:33.130
These girls, these men in pornography,

01:04:33.130 --> 01:04:35.550
lots of them have been sexually exploited.

01:04:35.550 --> 01:04:36.970
And it's a supply-and-demand thing,

01:04:36.970 --> 01:04:39.320
so as we continue to
demand more pornography,

01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:40.577
they're gonna have to supply more,

01:04:40.577 --> 01:04:43.770
and that involves sexually
exploiting more people.

01:04:43.770 --> 01:04:47.570
- We need to begin to also start

01:04:48.490 --> 01:04:52.850
punishing those that seek prostitution.

01:04:52.850 --> 01:04:56.130
We need to punish or criminalize

01:04:56.130 --> 01:04:59.980
the fact that men buying sex,

01:04:59.980 --> 01:05:02.420
and we need to criminalize the fact

01:05:02.420 --> 01:05:04.800
that men hire women out for sex.

01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:08.823
We need to empower girls to
feel strong about themselves,

01:05:09.850 --> 01:05:12.240
and I think whether it's sexual assault,

01:05:12.240 --> 01:05:13.590
whether it's trafficking,

01:05:13.590 --> 01:05:15.900
whether it's standing up
for yourself as an artist,

01:05:15.900 --> 01:05:18.143
or as a creator, or just as a girl,

01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:22.940
we need to raise strong girls
who believe in themselves

01:05:22.940 --> 01:05:25.320
and see their worth within themselves

01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:27.903
and not being given to them by others.

01:05:30.200 --> 01:05:32.100
- She had been put up in a room

01:05:32.100 --> 01:05:34.270
and had been performing sex acts

01:05:34.270 --> 01:05:36.470
that were set up not by her,

01:05:36.470 --> 01:05:38.010
but by the three individuals

01:05:38.010 --> 01:05:39.530
that were turning a commercial profit

01:05:39.530 --> 01:05:41.220
in this hotel right here.

01:05:41.220 --> 01:05:44.130
They found her sitting in the parking lot.

01:05:44.130 --> 01:05:46.330
So as you can see,

01:05:46.330 --> 01:05:48.820
this is occurring in our communities,

01:05:48.820 --> 01:05:50.063
right around the corner.

01:05:51.660 --> 01:05:54.900
- And then I think if you
really wanna get active,

01:05:54.900 --> 01:05:57.580
I think doing the
equivalent of these tours

01:05:57.580 --> 01:06:01.060
where you know where trafficking
is happening in your town.

01:06:01.060 --> 01:06:03.280
- Oh my gosh, I would
say go out and serve,

01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:04.720
that's the best experience.

01:06:04.720 --> 01:06:06.770
When I traveled with NightLight

01:06:06.770 --> 01:06:08.330
and I actually volunteered,

01:06:08.330 --> 01:06:09.570
I actually just stripped down

01:06:09.570 --> 01:06:11.260
and just was a fly on the wall

01:06:11.260 --> 01:06:12.950
and a source of love for these women,

01:06:12.950 --> 01:06:14.310
just going there, holding their hands,

01:06:14.310 --> 01:06:15.683
listening to their stories.

01:06:15.683 --> 01:06:18.840
What I love is that out
of seven billion people,

01:06:18.840 --> 01:06:21.560
so many people relate
differently to one another,

01:06:21.560 --> 01:06:23.030
but it takes you stepping out

01:06:23.030 --> 01:06:25.110
in order to connect with that person.

01:06:25.110 --> 01:06:26.940
Once you've felt the situation

01:06:26.940 --> 01:06:29.640
and you understand that there
is a need for your help,

01:06:30.530 --> 01:06:31.870
look at your circumference,

01:06:31.870 --> 01:06:33.530
like, what is your area of influence?

01:06:33.530 --> 01:06:35.150
Are you a blogger, are you a teacher,

01:06:35.150 --> 01:06:38.100
are you a musician, are
you an aspiring doctor?

01:06:38.100 --> 01:06:39.570
Whatever your area of influence is

01:06:39.570 --> 01:06:43.423
is the perfect voice to
help human trafficking.

01:06:45.650 --> 01:06:47.020
It might be writing a song

01:06:47.020 --> 01:06:51.190
and dedicating the
message or the proceeds,

01:06:51.190 --> 01:06:53.040
it might be, as a doctor,

01:06:53.040 --> 01:06:54.410
going out there to help the women

01:06:54.410 --> 01:06:57.160
who don't have that type
of help that they need,

01:06:57.160 --> 01:06:57.993
whatever it is,

01:06:57.993 --> 01:06:59.040
for me, it's a television host,

01:06:59.040 --> 01:07:01.230
it's lending my personality

01:07:01.230 --> 01:07:04.970
and my ability to emcee an
event and keep it light,

01:07:04.970 --> 01:07:07.660
and so it just depends on
your area of influence,

01:07:07.660 --> 01:07:09.060
but don't think that just because

01:07:09.060 --> 01:07:10.300
you don't have a bunch of money,

01:07:10.300 --> 01:07:12.720
or that you're not super
famous, that you can't help,

01:07:12.720 --> 01:07:15.140
everybody has an area of influence,

01:07:15.140 --> 01:07:17.660
you just have to really figure out

01:07:18.630 --> 01:07:21.490
how it would bless you most

01:07:21.490 --> 01:07:23.383
to make that impact that's needed.

01:08:01.915 --> 01:08:06.165
- Enough's enough.
(dramatic music)

01:08:12.104 --> 01:08:15.520
This "taboo" subject that's out there,

01:08:15.520 --> 01:08:16.570
how do we turn around

01:08:16.570 --> 01:08:21.443
and make it where it's
brought out into the light?

01:08:25.899 --> 01:08:29.540
And how do we make our
leaders, the decision makers,

01:08:29.540 --> 01:08:32.403
turn around and put people like myself,

01:08:33.710 --> 01:08:35.510
other agencies,

01:08:35.510 --> 01:08:37.750
use some of those resources to turn around

01:08:40.648 --> 01:08:42.193
and go after some of these folks?

01:08:49.990 --> 01:08:51.470
- If I get pissed off for your ills,

01:08:51.470 --> 01:08:53.700
and you can just be calm and
just walk in forgiveness,

01:08:53.700 --> 01:08:55.870
and I champion your cause,

01:08:55.870 --> 01:08:57.500
I actually think that's healthy.

01:08:57.500 --> 01:08:58.460
You know you've got someone

01:08:58.460 --> 01:09:01.120
standing up with you and for you.

01:09:01.120 --> 01:09:05.780
If I felt like someone was
standing for me and with me,

01:09:05.780 --> 01:09:08.140
then my rage actually decreases,

01:09:08.140 --> 01:09:10.620
I walk in calmness and forgiveness,

01:09:10.620 --> 01:09:14.013
because the consensus is
that this just isn't right.

01:09:15.160 --> 01:09:18.160
It's when you feel totally isolated,

01:09:18.160 --> 01:09:20.350
like no one really gives a shit,

01:09:20.350 --> 01:09:23.230
and somehow you've gotta
make your way in the world,

01:09:23.230 --> 01:09:25.590
because no one's hearing you on this.

01:09:25.590 --> 01:09:26.807
It is just not right,

01:09:26.807 --> 01:09:30.750
it's just not right to be
fucked in the ass by your father

01:09:30.750 --> 01:09:32.593
or his friends with tools,

01:09:33.510 --> 01:09:37.130
that is not a wholesome thing
for anyone to experience.

01:09:37.130 --> 01:09:40.080
And when there's just a total lack of rage

01:09:40.080 --> 01:09:42.023
over those sorts of topics,

01:09:43.100 --> 01:09:46.240
then rage becomes personified
on a personal level,

01:09:46.240 --> 01:09:49.000
but I think if there's
this sense of outcry

01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:52.050
that this stuff just isn't acceptable,

01:09:52.050 --> 01:09:53.860
then it can be that Gandhi march,

01:09:53.860 --> 01:09:55.740
it can be that Martin Luther King, Jr.,

01:09:55.740 --> 01:09:59.260
it can be that soft-walking
love of protest

01:09:59.260 --> 01:10:01.513
as opposed to the Malcolm X extremists.

01:10:09.530 --> 01:10:11.860
- If human spirit can prevail,

01:10:11.860 --> 01:10:15.377
it will be eradicated and it'll end.

01:10:15.377 --> 01:10:18.520
- All of the great historical
movements for social justice

01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:20.410
have been driven by young people.

01:10:20.410 --> 01:10:21.810
So young people have the energy,

01:10:21.810 --> 01:10:23.840
they have the passion,
and they have the time,

01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:25.340
also the creativity.

01:10:25.340 --> 01:10:27.330
Something happens when you get older,

01:10:27.330 --> 01:10:29.380
and you begin to become a little
bit more set in your ways,

01:10:29.380 --> 01:10:31.900
and thinking outside of the
box becomes more difficult.

01:10:31.900 --> 01:10:34.200
- I'm hoping that what we suffer now

01:10:34.200 --> 01:10:36.443
will be stopped in our time,

01:10:37.380 --> 01:10:40.963
and young people can take on the torch,

01:10:43.808 --> 01:10:46.540
and hoping that maybe the next generation

01:10:46.540 --> 01:10:48.090
can explore opportunity

01:10:48.090 --> 01:10:50.703
without the risks of
going sold and enslaved.

01:10:52.180 --> 01:10:55.610
- We don't have the finances
or the status in society

01:10:55.610 --> 01:10:56.870
to go make a big difference,

01:10:56.870 --> 01:10:58.510
but we shouldn't let that stop us.

01:10:58.510 --> 01:10:59.840
Just because we're super young

01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:01.860
or just because we don't
have a bunch of money

01:11:01.860 --> 01:11:03.340
doesn't mean there's nothing we can do.

01:11:03.340 --> 01:11:04.527
- I never stopped and thought,

01:11:04.527 --> 01:11:05.360
"You know what,

01:11:05.360 --> 01:11:07.460
"I'm not gonna say anything
because nobody's gonna listen,"

01:11:07.460 --> 01:11:09.820
I didn't care if somebody listened or not,

01:11:09.820 --> 01:11:12.367
I was like, "I'm gonna say
something because I'm upset,

01:11:12.367 --> 01:11:15.867
"and I'm mad, and I'm angry,
and things need to change,

01:11:15.867 --> 01:11:18.230
"and if I don't start to do it, who is?"

01:11:18.230 --> 01:11:19.470
So I think if millennials

01:11:19.470 --> 01:11:24.470
really think about what they want to do,

01:11:24.590 --> 01:11:26.483
there is nothing they can't do.

01:11:32.130 --> 01:11:34.240
- I, still to this day,
can't get rid of it.

01:11:34.240 --> 01:11:36.063
I'm 37 now, it's been 10 years,

01:11:37.088 --> 01:11:39.420
and when you really allow
your mind to go there,

01:11:39.420 --> 01:11:42.590
and you picture your children,
your sisters, your friends,

01:11:42.590 --> 01:11:46.590
in this case, my mom's neighbors,

01:11:46.590 --> 01:11:48.327
you can't just sit quiet.

01:11:48.327 --> 01:11:50.990
(speaks in foreign language)

01:11:50.990 --> 01:11:54.380
- I think we're at a really
opportune moment in history

01:11:54.380 --> 01:11:56.780
to make a difference around these issues,

01:11:56.780 --> 01:11:59.730
because as your film, I'm sure, will show,

01:11:59.730 --> 01:12:02.170
people all over the world are
becoming aware of the problem

01:12:02.170 --> 01:12:05.360
and want to make a change,
want to make a difference.

01:12:05.360 --> 01:12:07.823
That strength, in the
end, can move mountains.

01:12:09.210 --> 01:12:12.330
- I can tell you that the true life

01:12:12.330 --> 01:12:15.330
is when we discover our purpose in life

01:12:15.330 --> 01:12:19.000
and we open our arms,

01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:21.240
we open our hands,

01:12:21.240 --> 01:12:25.113
and we really want to
give our life to others.

01:12:32.786 --> 01:12:33.823
- Statistically,

01:12:36.150 --> 01:12:37.463
in your neighborhood,

01:12:38.970 --> 01:12:41.853
someone very close to you
is being sexually abused,

01:12:43.090 --> 01:12:46.950
and if you don't take responsibility

01:12:46.950 --> 01:12:50.610
and get actively involved
in doing something about it,

01:12:50.610 --> 01:12:52.823
then a little life will be broken.

01:12:54.950 --> 01:12:58.200
- There is something every
single one of us can do

01:12:58.200 --> 01:12:59.810
to help fight human trafficking.

01:12:59.810 --> 01:13:00.950
Just 'cause you aren't gonna give

01:13:00.950 --> 01:13:02.320
your entire life to fighting it

01:13:02.320 --> 01:13:04.043
doesn't mean you can't do something.

01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:10.020
- So, to those young people
that is watching this,

01:13:10.020 --> 01:13:13.180
I can tell you that to save a life,

01:13:13.180 --> 01:13:16.063
it's really to save our world.

01:13:17.430 --> 01:13:21.290
- It is very important
for us to raise our voice

01:13:21.290 --> 01:13:22.510
about a cause we believe in,

01:13:22.510 --> 01:13:26.130
because if we all just said
somebody else will handle it,

01:13:26.130 --> 01:13:29.677
or if we all just said,
"What am I gonna do?"

01:13:30.610 --> 01:13:33.120
nothing would ever happen,
nothing would ever get done.

01:13:33.120 --> 01:13:36.230
There are plenty of people who
were affected by something,

01:13:36.230 --> 01:13:37.147
touched by something, and said,

01:13:37.147 --> 01:13:39.130
"You know what, I'm gonna talk about it,"

01:13:39.130 --> 01:13:41.523
and because of that, change happens.

01:13:43.590 --> 01:13:44.690
- Strength in numbers.

01:13:45.700 --> 01:13:49.290
If you organize human beings
and you have one cause,

01:13:49.290 --> 01:13:51.530
you can influence the
world, influence society,

01:13:51.530 --> 01:13:54.430
but if you have 20 guys

01:13:54.430 --> 01:13:56.270
running around on their
own doing something,

01:13:56.270 --> 01:13:58.300
as opposed to getting
together and organizing,

01:13:58.300 --> 01:13:59.903
that's a big difference.

01:14:03.830 --> 01:14:05.380
- [John] I think it's too filtered,

01:14:05.380 --> 01:14:07.325
I think that's the problem
with the conversation.

01:14:07.325 --> 01:14:08.158
- [Sadhvi] Yep.

01:14:08.158 --> 01:14:09.820
- 'Cause people don't wanna talk about it.

01:14:09.820 --> 01:14:11.550
They don't wanna talk about it,

01:14:11.550 --> 01:14:12.820
they don't wanna talk about the fact

01:14:12.820 --> 01:14:17.820
that I put my tongue in my
mother's vagina at four,

01:14:17.910 --> 01:14:20.240
and no one wanted to have
a conversation about it,

01:14:20.240 --> 01:14:21.133
they still don't.

01:14:24.010 --> 01:14:24.860
I'm okay with it.

01:14:25.873 --> 01:14:27.040
But, what the hell, man,

01:14:27.040 --> 01:14:28.740
someone shouldn't be okay with it.

01:14:30.340 --> 01:14:31.830
I have to be okay with it

01:14:32.820 --> 01:14:33.940
because it's part of the journey,

01:14:33.940 --> 01:14:36.840
I can't get tied up in what that means,

01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:38.170
but it would be really nice

01:14:38.170 --> 01:14:40.417
if someone was pissed off on my behalf.

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