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Manchin Reintroduces Bipartisan Bill To Help Children, Youth, and Families Experiencing Homelessness
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) introduced the bipartisan Emergency Family Stabilization Act. This legislation would create a new emergency funding...
Cast’s Statement on the Violent Activity at the U.S. Capitol Building
Cast is outraged by the violent attempt to interrupt democracy at our nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, and calls on those responsible to be held accountable. It was nothing short of...
Filipino human trafficking survivors urge California Legislature to amend migrant workers’ protections bill
Two Filipino caregivers who were trafficked share their stories and urge all Filipinos to support anti-trafficking legislation Like thousands of Filipinos, Angela Guanzon was attracted to the promise of America....
Catholic Sisters Lead the Way in the Anti-Trafficking Movement
Human trafficking has many faces. Imagine a teenage girl pressured into prostitution by her boyfriend to pay the rent; a foreign national tricked into domestic servitude with promises of a...
Jayson’s story: Amend SB 477
My name is Jayson. While I was working in the construction in the Philippines, my uncle received a phone call from a woman and asking for a guy that can...
What happened to me should never happen to anyone else
Angela is a survivor of labor trafficking in an elder care facility in California. She came in hopes of finding decent work and found herself in modern slavery. This is her...
COVID-19: Yet more pain for human trafficking victims
BY STEPHANIE RICHARD POSTED 06.08.2020 As many Californians struggle with the effects of COVID-19, what this pandemic means for human trafficking victims is their abusers have yet another way to coerce and exploit....
We Will Not Be Silent!
“All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.” – bell hooks We are outraged by the murder of another Black person by law enforcement and...
Help protect farmworkers like me from modern slavery
My name is Raymundo. I was recruited from Mexico to work on a farm in California. I was promised that my work would be legal and that I would be...
CA Crime Victims Board Ensures Access for Human Trafficking Survivors to Lost Income Benefits Despite Pandemic
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – Today, the California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB) adopted final regulations to implement AB 629 (Smith/Gonzalez), which went into effect January 1, 2020, and provides human trafficking...