Here’s a music and video campaign called Not For Sale. The object of the game is to raise money to stop the global slave trade, which is a $32 billion industry, apparently.
We’re very moved but, having come from a country whose favourite export is mail order brides and domestic helpers, we’re feeling a little nonplussed.
For each girl that’s bought out of slavery, another handful leaps in, encouraged by angling parents and crappy governments (which, instead of using its money for roads or transport, may fund stupid shit like Imelda Marcos’ shoe fetish, a social tragedy romanticized by fashionistas worldwide).
In the end, trying to end slavery is about persuading corrupt governments to stop swilling their countries and make more productive decisions. But that’ll probably happen around the same time Bush stops throwing America’s dollar value at the War on Terror.
