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Mike Masten
Culver City, CA
God broke my heart after I saw a video on child soldiers and I have been seeking justice ever since. I served as the Director of Anti-Human Trafficking for two years at Pepperdine University, leading activist events and outreaches into Los Angeles.
For two years I was the Executive Director for the Ghana Rural Library project in Ghana, directing library build projects, teaching in schools, organizing American volunteers. My involvement in African issues eventually gave me an opportunity to go to Northern Uganda and South Sudan where I spent time in refugee camps, speaking to war survivors and spending time with orphans.
Having graduated with a BA in International Relations I now lead Project Exodus, an anti-trafficking group I founded after graduation to better tackle the problem of human trafficking in Los Angeles through outreach and activism. I live to seek justice and serve Christ. I love the oppressed and will not stop until they are free.
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Mike commented on the article |So incredible. At the rate that we use private contractors now a days to do things around the world, it would be no surprise if First Kuwait is only one of many companies that uses tax payer dollars and uses slave labor.
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Mike commented on the article |The birth of the feminist movement came out of the want to empower women, making them more than second class citizens. Women were in many ways "subject" to men and were not viewed equally in their eyes. While this movement has taken on a much more political direction today, the heart of the issue still revolves around the empowerment of women.
Trafficking and slavery, by definition, takes this empowerment away, treating women as nothing more than a commodity. Therefore, the question should not be whether someone CAN be a feminist and an abolitionist. The question should be: SHOULD a feminist be an abolitionist? Slavery is the most extreme way that power can be taken from a women. If feminist are true to their ideals of "empowering women", then they should be involved in abolitionist work as well.
