Human trafficking is escalating in the U.S.

ABBIE KIRCHER
Opinion Writer

One in three teens on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home, according to National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Throwaway Children. Other information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says 100,000 to 293,000 children have become sexual commodities.

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Do-Gooder Marketers Do the Soft Sell

NEW YORK The music video for Radiohead’s “All I Need” begins with slow, somber musical beats and a split screen revealing images of children. One side shows a child waking up, dressing for school and eating breakfast. The other, youngsters living in dingy conditions and toiling in a sweatshop.

The last shot pairs the one boy back from school removing his kicks with a boy assembling the last pieces of a strikingly similar sneaker in a factory. The tagline: “Some things cost more than you realize.”

“All I Need,” which debuted earlier this month on MTV properties worldwide, ends with an MTV logo. It was created for MTV Exit (End Exploitation and Trafficking), a multimedia initiative launched in Europe in 2004 by Viacom’s MTV Europe Foundation, an independent charity based in London. The effort includes the distribution of anti-human trafficking information at Radiohead’s concert tour in North America, Europe and Asia, which kicked off in West Palm Beach, Fla., this month.

MTV Exit — which recently expanded into Asia — also plans to release an animated film on human trafficking later this year, as well as produce other live events.

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MTV, RADIOHEAD AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

http://www.mtvexit.org/eng/index_flash.html

“MTV and Radiohead have teamed to address the exploitation and slavery of children around the world; turns out their against that stuff. But seriously, as part of the teen soap opera channel’s EXIT (End eXploitation and Trafficking) campaign, an effort to combat the horrendous practices of selling children into the sex or enforced labor industries, a Radiohead video will, well– according to the Hollywood Reporter– premiere on MTV on Thursday. And yet, it was on their web site, and now it’s posted down there.”