"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Georgia Ann Mullen on April 2, 2013 |
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Author Nancy Gadzuk enrolled me in The Next Big Thing meme. First, I had to look up the word “meme.” The short definition: it has something to do with repetition. And that’s what we’re doing. Answering questions sent by our writer friends about our works in progress and posting answers on...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on November 5, 2012 |
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What industry earns more money than major league baseball, and the national basketball, hockey and football leagues combined? Sex trafficking and forced labor. It’s a $32 billion industry.
On Sept. 25, President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting human trafficking in all federal...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on July 9, 2012 |
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Nomi Network, a non-profit organization that trains survivors of sexual slavery to produce products that will sell in the global market, was named after an 8-year-old survivor of sex trafficking in Cambodia. Nomi was so mentally disabled after her treatment as a sex slave, that she will spend the...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on April 8, 2012 |
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Last summer I took a combined research/pleasure trip to Maysville and Louisville, KY. I learned so much and had to get right down to fixing parts of my story that didn’t jibe with history. I may be writing fiction, but I want the historical parts to be as accurate as possible.
I was...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on March 26, 2012 |
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I wonder what it feels like to have a famous ancestor. Some of my ancestors were left on the other side of the Atlantic and the ones who came over on the boat lived ordinary lives in places like Schenectady and Cleveland.
No one made it to The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds as did...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on October 12, 2011 |
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You can own a slave for $90. You can’t even buy a coat for $90.
At that dirt cheap price there must be thousands of people being sold. Millions even. So, if you want to start a sure-fire business, become a slave trader. Capture some people—particularly women and children—ship them halfway...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on August 9, 2011 |
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Mobster and human smuggler Bill Bedini was back in Albania after jumping bail in Texas.
“This [is] payback to your Uncle Edmond for when I was in the United States,” he said as he beat two young women, nieces of the Albanian man who testified against him in the U.S. A human weed, Bedini...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on July 25, 2011 |
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Many people know the phrase “modern day slavery” but don’t realize it’s happening in their hometowns.
Florida state representative Rachel Burgin admits she was unaware of the problem’s severity until she attended a national conference in Washington, D.C. and sat next...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on July 23, 2011 |
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I was nearly speechless last week when a friend asked, “What is modern day slavery?”
“Women forced into prostitution,” I blurted. “Forced farm labor!” Is what I see and read about every day invisible to the average American?
Twenty-seven million people–the...
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