Month: December 2022

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Ambassador John Richmond Explains Root Cause of Human Trafficking, Offers Solution

Today, there are believed to be more people trapped in slavery than at any other time in history. These are individuals who are victims of sex trafficking and forced labor. They are women, men, and children. 


There are “27.6 million people [who] are estimated to be victims of trafficking,” John Richmond, the former U.S. ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during the Trump administration, says. 


Tragically, governments around the world are “identifying less than half of 1% of all those victims every year," Richmond says. “We are failing to actually identify, protect, and care for the victims of trafficking, and the traffickers are moving around with impunity.”


At the end of the day, human trafficking will only be stopped when the traffickers are stopped, he says. 


“The root cause of the problem are the individuals who decide to exploit inherently valuable people just because they're vulnerable.”


Richmond, who also an attorney and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the core issues driving human trafficking today, and what is being done to rescue victims. 


To learn more about how to be a part of the solution to solving human trafficking, visit the International Justice Mission or Love Does websites.


https://www.ijm.org/


https://lovedoes.org/


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Tech Won't Save Us - Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff

Paris Marx is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to discuss why internet visions of the 1990s were wrong to ignore corporate power, how the dot-com boom was like a Ponzi scheme, and why we desperately need to stop elevating tech billionaires.

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His most recent book is Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires and he’s the host of Team Human podcast. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushkoff.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • An excerpt from Survival of the Richest was published in The Guardian.
  • Paris was recently on the Team Human podcast to discuss Road to Nowhere with Douglas.

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Slate Books - The Waves: The World Record Book of Racist Stories

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior supervising producer of audio Daisy Rosario is joined by sisters and authors Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar. Amber and Lacey just released their second book, The World Record Book of Racist Stories, a collection of humorous and sometimes heartbreaking essays about the racism they and the people they know experience every day. Daisy, Amber and Lacey talk about needing to write a second book (because they didn’t fit all the stories in the first book), the importance of family in surviving micro and macro aggressions, and why humor is the only way to get through the pain. 


In Slate Plus, Daisy, Amber and Lacey talk about why Omaha actually is a great place to live. 

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘All This Could Be Different’ grapples with the beautiful chaos of post-college life

Sarah Thankam Mathews' debut novel takes place after the 2009 recession. The lead character, Sneha, just graduated college. Alone in the U.S. after her parents' unfair deportation back to India, she builds community through the friendships and lesbian relationships of her early 20s. In this episode, Mathews explains to Here & Now's Robin Young how her own experience with mutual aid work led her to write about seeking support and solidarity, and why she wanted to break out of the stereotypical narratives around Indian-American identity.
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Short Wave - The Biologist Who Talks With Cells

The human body is made up of more than 30 trillion cells, but how do they all work together? It's all about communication! "They talk through molecules going from one cell to the adjacent cell," says Dr. Sandra Murray, a professor of cell biology and physiology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how cells communicate with each other to do complex tasks, like close a wound or deliver a baby.

This year, Dr. Murray became the first person of color elected as president of the American Society for Cell Biology. She talks with host Aaron Scott about the beautiful language of cells, how she made her way as a Black woman in STEM, and what gives her hope in her field today.

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It Could Happen Here - Workers Protest in Modern China, Part 1

Mia talks with Cornell professor Eli Friedman about the last 30 years of workers protest in China leading up to the current protests.

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