TV Tonight

Atlanta producer Gayla Jamison's film, Lives For Sale, is on WPBA tonight at 9pm. According to the site, Lives For Sale is a one-hour "investigative documentary exposes the painful, rarely seen human side of illegal immigration - including the growing black market trade in human beings."

Following Lives For Sale, at 10:00pm also on WBPA, there will be a local townhall meeting with Gayla there. Gayla has worked for years on bringing this documentary to the public, so I'm excited to see her project come to fruition. Please watch and participate in the discussion if you can.

Metro Atlanta's Sex Industry (Finally) Under Assault

Quote du jour: “We are cutting this cancer out today.” Clayton Sheriff Victor Hill, in the AJC.

Clayton County law enforcement is kicking ass and taking names, and closing all massage parlors in that metro Atlanta county. They have reason to believe that the women working in the massage parlors are likely being trafficked here for purposes of prostitution, which is illegal in Georgia, something Atlanta's out of control sex industry seems to have conveniently forgotten. This is good news, and thank you Clayton County sheriffs for getting serious about sex crime and sex trafficking in this (metro area) town.

Let's hope the trafficked women will be safe, freed and provided for now. Atlanta has been growing a strong anti-trafficking community over the last couple of years, thanks in part to funds from the Bush Administration (they can't possibly screw-up everything can they?) and coalition building folks like Erik Voss and his group, Rescue and Restore Atlanta, a broad coalition of law enforcement, church groups, social services, city and county governments, and concerned citizens.

I hope we will read more about these trafficked women in the press now, and hear their horrid stories of being imprisoned as slaves in these unthinkable places, and elsewhere, so popular in this town. That is the only way we, the citizens, will pressure the powers that be to do something about our modern day slave trading in women and children.

UPDATE: A judge throws out some of the cases. Go figure, and stay tuned!