Within US Borders: Exploring Domestic Human Trafficking Initiatives

STOP the Traffick Within U.S Borders: Exploring Domestic Human Trafficking Initiatives

Panel Discussion:

370 Dwinelle Hall, Floor F
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94704

Past Sather Gate, Corner of Telegraph and Bancroft

BERKELEY, CA-- On Thursday, March 6, 2008, STOP the Traffick will host
the discussion panel “Within U.S. Borders: Exploring Domestic Human
Trafficking Initiatives.” The crime of modern day slavery still exists
in the form of human trafficking and service agencies from all over the
Bay Area of California have come together to discuss the various
government policies and social services provided for human trafficking
survivors in California and the United States. Doors open at 5:30p.m.
to meet participating organizations at 370 Dwinelle Hall Conference
Room at UC Berkeley. (Signs will be posted to Dwinelle Hall from the
Corner of Telegraph and Bancroft Ave.) Refreshments will be provided.
Admission is free.

Theresa Flores, author and sex trafficking
survivor, will be the keynote speaker. Panelists Jim Saleda, Officer
for the Vice Crimes and Child Exploitation Unit of the Oakland Police
Department; Mary Wiberg member of the California Alliance to Combat
Trafficking and Slavery Task Force; and Erin Gangitano, Staff Attorney
for the Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach will discuss the reasons
why the invisibility of human trafficking activities go undetected on a
daily basis despite trafficking victims performance of labor in,
ironically, public spaces.

A sex trafficking survivor
will be present to share her story in honor of International Women’s
Day. The launch of the second annual STOP the Traffick Panel is part of
the Gender Equity Resource Center’s Women’s History Month Series,
Celebrating Women Across the World.

The event is co-sponsored
by the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), UC
Berkeley Gender and Women’s Studies Department, UC Berkeley Gender
Equity Resource Center, LunaBar, Prytanean Women’s Honor Society, Asian
Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, and the Oakland Police Department.

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