I am sitting here at breakfast time for a youth camp that i am performing music for.  The room is filled with 5 and 6th graders.  The thought strikes me that these awesomely awkward, intelligent and wide eyed kids are the prime target age in many other countries for slave traders.  There are more slaves today than the entire history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.  It drew such a dividing line then, so much that family fought family member for the right to keep the slave trade legal here in the US.  While we may not face the same obvious signs of slave trading in todays times. We are faced with a very real and ever growing epidemic. We may not face a dividing line of North vs South, but instead face thee dividing line of apathy and indifference. Close to 30 million people around the globe are trafficked each year.  If you are like me, this number seems overwhelming.  So much in fact that I almost am distanced to the issue itself. All 50 states have had cases of human trafficking and the U.S. is fast becoming a major consumer of human people.

I recently was told about a local business and its participation in this global and VERY LOCAL epidemic.The basement of the building is dark and damp no doubt, as the its is in an older structure. The lighting dim and eerily provocative.  In the room sits a bed.  Young UNDERAGE girls  - - - from the valley that I live in - - are provided a place to make extra cash using their bodies.  This is happening all around us.  How can we keep silent?  How can  we let the monster feed on our innocence.

This global problem is one that we must face, and we must do so one step at a time.  One bite, one calculated move at a time.  Hopefully you have watched the video.  hopefully you have heard the song.  hopefully you like it and share it.  That is what we have been hoping for.  The song and the video have been 3 years in the making, and thanks to great friends like Dina at Sherpadesign.net and Dusty at FilmSaints.com, Thanks to Dream Records and their studios in L.A. for getting me in to record. We are live and helping to bring awareness to the Slave Trade Industry.   The video is below, so please watch and :

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