Speaker for the Living

The Department of State released their annual Trafficking in Persons Report on June 27, 2017. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone give an overview of the report, including an explanation of tiers, a discussion of methodology, and how politics has affected tier rankings from the beginning. JJ also provides a case study of China, which was dropped to Tier 3 this year, where they should be.

Sources:

https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2017/index.htm

https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2017/271165.htm

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/06/272212.htm

https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2001/3929.htm

https://www.cfr.org/interview/why-beijing-fails-fight-human-trafficking

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-idUSKBN19I21S?il=0

This episode contains graphic descriptions and explicit content. Women were recruited, coerced, and abducted on a mass scale, to be systematically raped by soldiers and officers, by order of the Japanese military during World War II. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone shine light on the horrific abuse these women experienced. While the Japanese government has partially acknowledged what happened, they have failed to take full ownership of a war crime they had instituted as official policy in 1937.

Sources:

http://www.awf.or.jp/e1/index.html

http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2016/ap.html

Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

McCurry, Justin; Kaiman, Jonathan (April 28, 2014). "Papers prove Japan forced women into second world war brothels, says China." www.theguardian.com. The Guardian.

Min, Pyong Gap. "Korean “Comfort Women”." Gender & Society 17, no. 6 (2003): 938-57.

Qiu, Peipei, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei. Chinese comfort women: testimonies from Imperial Japans sex slaves. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Soh, Chunghee Sarah. The comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Stetz, Margaret and Bonnie B. C. Oh. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.

Tanaka, Yuki . Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002.

Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

This episode contains graphic descriptions and explicit content. Women were recruited, coerced, and abducted on a mass scale, to be systematically raped by soldiers and officers, by order of the Japanese military during World War II. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone shine light on the horrific abuse these women experienced. While the Japanese government has partially acknowledged what happened, they have failed to take full ownership of a war crime they had instituted as official policy in 1937.

Sources:

http://www.awf.or.jp/e1/index.html

http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2016/ap.html

Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

McCurry, Justin; Kaiman, Jonathan (April 28, 2014). "Papers prove Japan forced women into second world war brothels, says China." www.theguardian.com. The Guardian.

Min, Pyong Gap. "Korean “Comfort Women”." Gender & Society 17, no. 6 (2003): 938-57.

Qiu, Peipei, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei. Chinese comfort women: testimonies from Imperial Japans sex slaves. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Soh, Chunghee Sarah. The comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Stetz, Margaret and Bonnie B. C. Oh. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.

Tanaka, Yuki . Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002.

Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

SPOILERS. Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone explain the context of the story, then discuss the similarities with American antebellum slavery, how the story conveys agency and oppression, and why it's an example of slavery rather than trafficking.

Sources:

https://www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984.

Nelson, David. Women's Issues in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2012.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia

http://narrative.ly/i-grew-up-in-a-fundamentalist-cult%e2%80%8a-like-the-one-in%e2%80%8athe-handmaids-tale/

http://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=honors_theses

http://www.glamour.com/story/the-handmaids-tale-is-more-than-fiction-its-a-dark-reminder-of-slavery

https://theestablishment.co/the-handmaids-tale-a-white-feminist-s-dystopia-80da75a40dc5

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/a-cunning-adaptation-of-the-handmaids-tale

https://ladygeekgirl.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/structures-of-slavery-and-the-handmaids-tale/

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-handmaids-tale-flips-the-script-to-show-the-women-b-1795174196

SPOILERS. Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone explain the context of the story, then discuss the similarities with American antebellum slavery, how the story conveys agency and oppression, and why it's an example of slavery rather than trafficking.

Sources:

https://www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984.

Nelson, David. Women's Issues in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2012.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia

http://narrative.ly/i-grew-up-in-a-fundamentalist-cult%e2%80%8a-like-the-one-in%e2%80%8athe-handmaids-tale/

http://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=honors_theses

http://www.glamour.com/story/the-handmaids-tale-is-more-than-fiction-its-a-dark-reminder-of-slavery

https://theestablishment.co/the-handmaids-tale-a-white-feminist-s-dystopia-80da75a40dc5

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/a-cunning-adaptation-of-the-handmaids-tale

https://ladygeekgirl.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/structures-of-slavery-and-the-handmaids-tale/

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-handmaids-tale-flips-the-script-to-show-the-women-b-1795174196

What do we know about forced labor in North Korea? Seth Daire and JJ Janflone discuss key research and investigative reports about how forced labor is utilized in North Korea, which a specific focus on the kwan-li-so political prisoner camps. JJ also discusses North Korea's abduction project.

Source:

https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2016/258797.htm

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/05/north-koreas-caste-system

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-caste-idUSBRE85505T20120606

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/north-korea

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/child-chain-gangs-north-korea-9460513

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIDPRK/Report/A.HRC.25.CRP.1_ENG.doc

https://www.hrnk.org/publications/hrnk-publications.php

https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/HRNK_HiddenGulag2_Web_5-18.pdf

https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/KKJ_Gulag_INC_FinalFinal_WEB.pdf

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2011/03/141_8871.html

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/18/asia/north-korea-defector-changes-story/

http://www.blaineharden.com/escape-from-camp-14-reviews/

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/north-koreas-abduction-project

Photo: Amnesty International

What do we know about forced labor in North Korea? Seth Daire and JJ Janflone discuss key research and investigative reports about how forced labor is utilized in North Korea, which a specific focus on the kwan-li-so political prisoner camps. JJ also discusses North Korea's abduction project.

Source:

https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2016/258797.htm

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/05/north-koreas-caste-system

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-north-caste-idUSBRE85505T20120606

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/north-korea

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/child-chain-gangs-north-korea-9460513

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIDPRK/Report/A.HRC.25.CRP.1_ENG.doc

https://www.hrnk.org/publications/hrnk-publications.php

https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/HRNK_HiddenGulag2_Web_5-18.pdf

https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/KKJ_Gulag_INC_FinalFinal_WEB.pdf

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2011/03/141_8871.html

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/18/asia/north-korea-defector-changes-story/

http://www.blaineharden.com/escape-from-camp-14-reviews/

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/north-koreas-abduction-project

Photo: Amnesty International

North Korean citizens are trafficked to other countries. JJ Janflone and Seth Daire discuss how North Korean women are forced into marriage in China and how North Korean men have been forced to do labor in Russia. JJ also gives some context on how North Korea relates to China and Russia.

Sources:

http://www.newsweek.com/china-north-korea-trump-allies-economy-583883

https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/19/problem-north-korean-refugees-china-and-possible-solutions

http://humantraffickingcenter.org/women-for-wives/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korean-refugee-speaks-out_us_57684417e4b0853f8bf1c24f

http://humantraffickingcenter.org/men-for-wood-state-enabled-exploitation-in-russia-and-north-korea/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/world/asia/north-koreans-toil-in-slavelike-conditions-abroad-rights-groups-say.html?_r=0

Photo Credit: Roman Harak on Flickr

North Korean citizens are trafficked to other countries. JJ Janflone and Seth Daire discuss how North Korean women are forced into marriage in China and how North Korean men have been forced to do labor in Russia. JJ also gives some context on how North Korea relates to China and Russia.

Sources:

http://www.newsweek.com/china-north-korea-trump-allies-economy-583883

https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/19/problem-north-korean-refugees-china-and-possible-solutions

http://humantraffickingcenter.org/women-for-wives/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korean-refugee-speaks-out_us_57684417e4b0853f8bf1c24f

http://humantraffickingcenter.org/men-for-wood-state-enabled-exploitation-in-russia-and-north-korea/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/world/asia/north-koreans-toil-in-slavelike-conditions-abroad-rights-groups-say.html?_r=0

Photo Credit: Roman Harak on Flickr

Do exotic dancers deserve workers rights? Denver dancers join the ranks of erotic services workers across the US with a lawsuit against club Shotgun Willies, that demands these dancers no longer be treated as exploited independent contractors, but rather as respected employees. Exotic dancing, lawful protection and worker rights, and how erotic service providers are often trafficked or exploited are all discussed by hosts Seth Daire and JJ Janflone this week.

Sources:

http://stripperlaborrights.com/information/

https://thinkprogress.org/strip-clubs-get-away-with-exploiting-dancers-every-day-but-these-strippers-are-fighting-back-fb3a204bcc5a

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/14/denver-strip-clubs-lawsuit-fees/

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/09/shotgun-willies-nightclub-lawsuit/

http://www.westword.com/news/shotgun-willies-strippers-say-club-ripped-them-off-in-new-lawsuit-9049435

http://www.westword.com/news/strippers-getting-exploited-at-clubs-in-denver-and-beyond-lawsuit-says-8879856

https://www.scribd.com/document/347919653/Chada-Mantooth-et-a-v-Shotgun-Willie-s-et-al

https://www.scribd.com/document/341981848/Santich-v-VGC-Holding-Corp-et-al#from_embed