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This week my spouse and I navigated through the ever-changing landscape surrounding Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing. We started and ended our telephonic journey with our family practitioner. We dealt with Public Health Seattle & King County, Washington State Department of Health, Governor Jay Inslee, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congresswoman Susan DelBene. Throughout this experience our emotions ran the gambit …
On Friday, 30 November 2012, two miscreants (Terrence Williams and Charles Deville Nash) were sentenced to extended stays within the federal prison system for trafficking young women within Western Washington, and to/from other states. The pimps would advertise the availability of their victims via advertisements on Craig’s List and Backpage (see my prior piece: Sex Trafficking & Exploitation 2012 – Village Voice). According to the US Department of Justice, “both men controlled young women, advertising them on the internet, transporting them to “dates,” taking their earnings and through verbal or physical violence forcing them to continue in the sex trades.”
You can sit and watch the tragedy of hunger in the United States continue, or you can do something. I thank you for your action, your community thanks you for your action and those who will have a meal in their bowl and on their table due to your action thank you.