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An update about what's going on, upcoming events, the transgender phenomenon, and the feast day of Peter Claver. Links mentioned: Gender Transformation Docudrama: https://www.gendertransformation.com/ Livestream Q&A: https://momsforamerica.us/gender-confusion/ Summit on Food, Family, and Medical Freedom: https://www.johnlittellmd.com/event-details/florida-summit-2023 Please get in touch with me at https://gorelentless.org/contact/ Please also join my community at Locals: https://www.locals.com

Erika joins me for another discussion of what we can learn from Sound of Freedom and how we can evaluate organizations in the counter-trafficking sector. We spend less time discussing the film and more about what we can look for in a good NGO. Links mentioned: Letter from organizations in Asia: https://medium.com/@lmpinkston/sound-of-freedom-a-joint-statement-from-anti-trafficking-organizations-3ff84f558334 My previous podcast on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVK_bHQZJgs You may contact me or Erika here: To get in touch with me please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/

I have a conversation with Erika Tello about our thoughts, qualms, and suggestions for those of you who will watch this movie. Let me know what you thought about the movie! What questions do you have? Many links: In which Jim Caviezel is inspired by the movie Taken (17:00); Tim Ballard states his wife said, "I will not let you jeopardize my salvation by not doing this". (25:40); in which Peterson does not push back on anything they said. https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/the-fight-against-worldwide-child-slavery-the-sex-trade-jim-caviezel-and-tim-ballard-ep-372/ Controversy (there is a lot more): https://gritdaily.com/operation-underground-railroad-tim-ballard/ https://americancrimejournal.com/operation-underground-railroad-earns-47-million-in-2020/ https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/sex-trafficking-raid-operation-underground-railroad.html CNN talking about QAnon https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2023/07/08/cnn-movie-sex-trafficking-moral-panic-meant-appease-qanon

A video run-down (click below) of the various projects and activities that I've been involved with over the last few months. It's been very productive and I'm looking forward to some new projects in the next few months! How to watch the Gender Transformation documentary: https://www.gendertransformation.com/ Also see previous post for pics. News coverage: https://www.ntd.com/gender-transformation-the-untold-realities-hits-the-big-screen_926299.html Where to find the CMDA CME Human Trafficking course: https://www.pathlms.com/cmda/courses/21177 Relentless: https://gorelentless.org/

A video update and newsletter about what Relentless has been up to in the last couple of months. Thanks for tuning in! Let me know what you think and if you have any questions! Links to items mentioned in the update: https://gorelentless.podbean.com/e/slavery-climate-change-the-sdgs/ https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2021/05000/Potential_Impact_of_Climate_Change_on_Human.3.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=4 How to contact me: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ How to sign up for my mailing list: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/

I discuss the connection between climate change and modern slavery. Is the former causing the latter? What should we be considering when thinking about these two huge issues? The links to people, books, and reports I mentioned, as well as a lot more that are on several sides of this issue so you can form your own conclusions. Michael Shellenberger https://shellenberger.org/ Bjorn Lomborg https://www.lomborg.com/ https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mecc_infosheet_climate_change_nexus.pdf https://www.iied.org/climate-change https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap https://quillette.com/2019/10/05/channelling-the-malthusian-roots-of-climate-extremism/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/climate-alarmism-is-the-real-threat-to-public-health/

In this podcast I discuss what is the GSI, some of the definitions, highlights, and my takeaways from the report. More than a dry review of the data, I challenge some of the reporting and conclusions here, as well as speculate about what might this mean for our global response to slavery. I end with a reference to CNN's Don Lemon getting schooled in a slavery history lesson! Links below! Find more here: https://gorelentless.org/ or on Locals: https://relentless.locals.com/ The report: https://www.walkfree.org/reports/global-estimates-of-modern-slavery-2022/ Don Lemon's lesson: https://notthebee.com/article/watch-cnns-don-lemon-immediately-regretted-telling-british-commentator-hilary-fordwich-that-the-royal-family-should-pay-reparations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jeGPPXKveM&ab_channel=NewsmaxTV

Find more about Relentless serving at the intersection of health and justice at www.gorelentless.org! You can also find Relentless on Locals! https://relentless.locals.com/ Join the mailing list for periodic updates https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/

Relentless forward progress! Please also join my community at Locals: https://www.locals.com Please get in touch with me at https://gorelentless.org/contact/

My call to action against CA bill AB2098

A brief look at the summary of the Pfizer, FDA, and other studies related to the safety data regarding the Covid19 vaccines.

"Not Your Mother's Shot" is a 15 minute video in which I explain (or attempt to) the difference between the Covid19 shot and other conventional vaccines. I hope this is helpful and informative. if you have any more questions about this topic or have requests for me to cover other topics, please let me know!

In this episode I review the recently published annual Trafficking in Persons Report published by the USA State Department. To get in touch with me please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ USA TIP Report: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report/ New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-lived-experience/

Relentless returns after a 6-month sabbatical. Here is a brief overview of what's new and what we're looking forward to in this next season! I'll update this channel with Relentless Locals community link once it is up and going. https://www.locals.com Please get in touch with me at https://gorelentless.org/contact/

In this episode I briefly describe the health aspects of transgender people in the sex trade and the unique challenges they face. To get in touch with me please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine www.segm.org https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296700032_The_DSM-5_Diagnostic_Criteria_for_Gender_Dysphoria Kozlowska K, Chudleigh C, McClure G, Maguire AM and Ambler GR (2021) Attachment Patterns in Children and Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria. Front. Psychol. 11:582688. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582688 Sam Winter BSci, PGDE, MEd, PhD & Serge Doussantousse MPH (2009) Transpeople, Hormones, and Health Risks in Southeast Asia: A Lao Study, International Journal of Sexual Health, 21:1, 35-48, DOI: 10.1080/19317610802554141

In this episode Dr. Trevor Stammers and I discuss Human Trafficking for Organ Removal (HTOR), why it is such an unrecognized problem in the counter-trafficking sector, what transplant tourism has to do with it, and why allowing people to legally sell their organs doesn't solve the problem. All relevant links are below. Dr. Stammers is currently Editor in Chief of The New Bioethics https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ynbi20/current and recently was an Associate Professor in Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary's University, Twickenham in the UK. He practiced family medicine for 27 years before entering academia. He is currently writing a book on the ethics of organ acquisition and contributing a chapter on organ trafficking to new book on human trafficking from Policy Press. His latest book (co-edited with Dr Calum MacKellar) is The Ethics of Generating Posthuman Persons, due out from Bloomsbury Academic in Feb 2022. To get in touch with me or one of my guests please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Toolkit-files/08-58296_tool_9-19.pdf http://cofs.org/home/ https://endtransplantabuse.org/ https://chinatribunal.com/ VITA Network – Advancing the Health Response to Modern Slavery (vita-network.com) Courses | Vita Training - Safeguarding Victims of Modern Slavery (vita-training.com) Organ Trafficking: The Unseen Form of Human Trafficking - ACAMS Today Stop forced organ harvesting - FreedomUnited.org https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198796558.001.0001/oso-9780198796558-chapter-17

This conversation is about patient advocacy with two brilliant people doing fantastic work helping women exit prostitution in Germany. We discuss the challenges and barriers these women face in accessing health care and how they meet the needs of the individuals. We talk about slowing down and humanizing the "process" of health care. You will be inspired and informed! To get in touch with me or one of my guests please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/

In this episode I discuss state-sponsored slavery, particularly the forms that are being perpetrated in China and North Korea. I also discuss other other questionable practices that can be found in other countries. To get in touch with me please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/ UN High Commission on Human Rights definition of slavery: https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/slaveryconvention.aspx International Labor Organization: https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/definition/lang--en/index.htm China: USA TIP Report: https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-trafficking-in-persons-report/china/ https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/29/china-muslims-uighurs-abortion-sterilization-women-minorities/ https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-the-biden-administration https://enduyghurforcedlabour.org/ https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/30/uighur-slave-labor-companies-brands-china/ https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale https://beslaveryfree.com/uyghur North Korea: https://humantraffickingsearch.org/north-korean-slave-labor/ https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-eu-slavery/north-korea-sends-state-sponsored-slaves-to-europe-rights-group-idUSL8N19N43L https://apnews.com/article/global-trade-nuclear-weapons-north-korea-slavery-china-8b493b7df6e147e98d19f3abb5ca090a Jordan Peterson podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4&t=1593s Other: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/02/04/systemic-forced-labour-and-child-labour-has-come-to-an-end-in-uzbek-cotton/?fbclid=IwAR2uZcGZNYd3yoNcQYoNzfoU3n4RD_tTzkylX9GRCGS2E68mq-AUAvoyJV0 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjNl-bjhvnwAhWNPewKHTN7ACUQFjAXegQIHhAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilo.org%2Fwcmsp5%2Fgroups%2Fpublic%2F---arabstates%2F---ro-beirut%2Fdocuments%2Fpublication%2Fwcms_552697.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2AbtvXJsXXJBh80TgVzfnl

This webinar travels to Paris where we meet Joni and discuss her work with transwomen in prostitution in Paris. We will discuss the sex trafficking and prostitution situation there as well as the uniqueness of working with transwomen who are in that sector. Joni has lived in several different countries working in several different sectors. She has a wealth of experience and you are guaranteed to learn something in this webinar. To reach me or to get in touch with Joni please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/

This podcast is a discussion of a journal article that applies Queer Theory to counter-human trafficking work and a subsequent webinar featuring the article and one of the authors. Queer Theory is a branch of Critical Social Justice and I explain some of the basic tenets of it and how it is applied in this article. The goal is to help people recognize and understand Queer Theory in the context of counter-trafficking work, at least through the lens of this paper. To reach me or to get in touch with Jennifer please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/ Schwarz C, Britton H. Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland. Social Inclusion (ISSN: 2183-2803) 2015, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 63-75 Doi: 10.17645/si.v3i1.172. Webinar: https://healtrafficking.org/2020/12/queering-the-support-for-trafficked-persons-lgbtq-communities-and-human-trafficking-in-the-heartland/ Pluckrose H, Lindsay J. Cynical Theories, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity. Pitchstone Publishing, Durham, NC. 2020. New Discourses:https://newdiscourses.com/

Jennifer is a physician assistant who lives in Houston, TX and is active in working against sex trafficking there. We discuss the prostitution and trafficking situation there as well as how she integrates her health profession and her counter-trafficking work. This is a fascinating look into the illegal yet very open prostitution scene there - particularly involving Chinese women and she shares some stories you will not want to miss! To reach me or to get in touch with Jennifer please leave a comment here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/ For more on this webinar series: https://gorelentless.org/webinar-series-with-live-qa/

This episode is all about the connection between sleep and trauma. What are the sleep disturbances that people with PTSD or chronic trauma suffer and what kind of things can one do to sleep better? This is NOT medical advice, is not a substitute for visiting your physician and is not entirely comprehensive. I wanted to give an overview about sleep, how trauma and PTSD disrupts sleep, and some suggestions for how to sleep better. To reach me about any of these matters related to health and trauma please reach out to me here: https://gorelentless.org/contact/ To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/ For more on this webinar series: https://gorelentless.org/webinar-series-with-live-qa/ If you have questions or comments or would like to know more please be in touch with comment below. Resources: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/patient-caregiver-education/understanding-sleep Kovachy B; O’Hara R; Hawkins N; Gershon A; Primeau MM; Madej J; Carrion V. Sleep disturbance in pediatric PTSD: current findings and future directions. J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(5):501-510. https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/11/23/dream-sleep/ https://www.sleepfoundation.org/mental-health/ptsd-and-sleep

Dr. Judy Norman joins me again for a conversation about trauma informed care in a clinical setting and how not to retraumatize your patients. This webinar will be directed towards health professionals, but I'm sure that non-medical types will learn something as well! To get updates on these webinars and learn how to participate in a live session please click here: https://gorelentless.org/newsletter-signup/ For more on this webinar series: https://gorelentless.org/webinar-series-with-live-qa/ Richie-Zavaleta, A.C.; Villanueva, A.M.; Homicile, L.M.; Urada, L.A. Compassionate Care—Going the Extra Mile: Sex Trafficking Survivors’ Recommendations for Healthcare Best Practices. Sexes 2021, 2, 26–49. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes2010003 Macias-Konstantopoulos WL. Caring for the Trafficked Patient: Ethical Challenges and Recommendations for Health Care Professionals.AMA Journal of Ethics January 2017, Volume 19, Number 1: 80-90.