Human trafficking is a major problem Worldwide & is happening all around us.
As a 38 year old woman who has experienced torment right here in Maine, I can attest to how easy it is for you or someone you
Love, to be a victim of trafficking.
As women, our primary concern is we will be sex trafficked and organ trafficked before we are killed.
Trafficking also looks like forced labor, including but not limited to, cobalt mining, clothing, shoe and coffee production.
It is important if you have the capability to choose what you purchase, that you source from products, known to provide trafficking free goods.
I hope someday to see a World with halal practices, one where we never see human trafficking and forced labor. Where we don’t worry that what we purchase is affiliated with genocide or with trafficking.
Traffickers know what they are doing. They are both women and men. Some are forced through coercion or with threats to their safety or other family members safety. Others just consider it a business. They are inhumane.
Traffickers will target an area where there are drastically different economics.
This is to target the lower class families.
Larger families with less money who are caught up in stress.
Busy working multiple jobs.
Forced oppression is a tool used purposefully by corrupt government officials, prominent community members & others to keep you in vulnerable and dangerous situations.
Add in the government and drug trafficking war, along with weapons dealing & the recipe for how to navigate human trafficking gets more challenging.
The issue of government vs drug trafficking, wouldn’t be as challenging if there were no corrupt government.
Then it would be a very clear line.
Trafficking of plant medicine
&
Government officials
This however, is not at all how it operates.
I personally, have never been a dealer of drugs/illegal plant medicines or worked in the government.
I’ve never been in arms dealing or human trafficking and I’ve never been an addict.
I’ve just been put in the middle.
I will be no-ones scapegoat and I won’t stay silent anymore.
To be a woman or person, caught in the middle of these silent wars, leaves us under protected, unheard and left to be extra vulnerable to human traffickers.
I’ve interacted with many people
In my life. I see human beings on all sides. Whether you are in plant medicine trafficking or in government.
When government continues to be involved in both, they require a scapegoat.
Someone they will target to make sure that about two decades of dealing gets covered up and they can continue on, passing down generation to generation.
This leaves women like me vulnerable to being silenced. When your family is targeted, it doesn’t leave much choice.
*trigger warning-but I lived through it*
One of the writings I did weeks prior about my experience being tied up with a bag over my head and gang raped; is just a portion of what happens.
That is the outcome for under protected women.
All to make sure others can get away with what they do.
I wrote to the president with my story and urging the legalization of drugs, so that women like myself and so many families, could be safer and no longer caught in the middle.
Imagine if those in government and drug trafficking had united, to end human trafficking?
We would have a safer world, almost immediately.
Instead it looks like another few decades of the corrupt government officials and their families, jeopardizing entire communities for their bad business practices and immaturity, instead of mediation in this pivotal time.
Where does it leave women like me who are caught in the middle?
I refuse to pick a side when it comes to another human beings life & well being.
Everyone deserves their basic human rights being met.
A safe place to live, nourishing food, clean water and a
Place in society.
Important human trafficking warning signs and factors
People who benefit from
Building up towns
Hostel (hotel lodgings etc) environment or buildings known to be part of Underground Railroad, etc.
towns/cities with active ports & access to water (specifically to highways or sea)
People with International business connections and financial ability
Participating in local tourist attractions that allow easier human trafficking scenarios (more people is a sure way to disappear others)
Keeping a profile of goodwill to the general public
small towns and communities (especially with disparagingly different economic structures)
where there is a heavy drug use or homeless population (easier for people to believe lies)
No matter what your status on drugs, you don’t deserve to be trafficked, I mention this because it’s easier for people to believe lies about you if there is already a large population struggling. My abusers have always spread this rumor about me to get away with abusing me.
Some of the Dangers you are in if targeted and isolated
Being followed by people at all times so they can threaten anyone who helps you
poisoning you and your pets as threat tactics
covering up medical records
oppression
spreading lies and rumors further isolating you
accessing nude photos or videos to further exploit you
someone crippling you
finding someone to steal your identity and seeing if it is successful in fooling satellite systems or other ‘updated’ flawed tracking systems
Not all friends can be trusted. I’ve had ones that got me raped and trafficked. In Maine. Then tried to frame men and discredit me. They got away with it by, people who they persuade, in government or by corrupt government.
Family members who use nepotism to decide who is safe & cause harm for you based off of that decision.
People spreading lies to isolate you or damage your reputation, to get away with it & other abuse.
It can be immediate family or within a family. Cousins. Aunts. Uncles. Etc.
Community members using you as a scapegoat, or that have knowingly caused you harm and want you discredited. (Specifically if you are isolated-I ALWAYS have been isolated-alwaysfake displays of caring in this time, or great smoke show, if people had cared, would I have left on foot with a Walker to seek medical refuge? The fake displays of support are even more dangerous-eluding to people being ‘cared for’ when in reality, they are in danger and isolated)
I have an Ambulatory spinal cord injury caused by blunt force trauma-it ain’t a joke. )
Through relationship.
My ex abuser-and his ex
Wife, who spread lies about me for years, while he was severely injuring my body-making me an easier target, in an already dangerous area, because of the isolation caused by above. It was the goal they had in mind. 
Be careful about which drinks to accept.
The trauma I’ve been through has been in the USA, in Maine.
When people spread lies about you they contribute to your isolation and cause you to be in further danger.
Be careful.
#humantraffickingawareness #truth #speakup # # #
#think #riseup #standup #united #worldwide
Here are some educational resources to further educate yourself and know how to be involved.
Next week I will
Outline my story a bit better. Trying to make it readable and maybe act as a survival guide to others who are vulnerable.
I hope this information is enough to peak your interests and cause you to realize that it is important everyone pay attention until this is a non issue.
Have a good day.
~Katherine Lily Mae Harris
Woman
Life
Freedom
Worldwide
