End Internet Trafficking Coalition

Mission: End Internet Trafficking Coalition is a national coalition whose mission is to prevent sexual violence and human trafficking via the internet. The EITC achieves this by providing a platform for links between nonprofit, governmental, law enforcement, faith-based, and student grassroots agencies and individuals to advocate an accessible worldwide web where children, youth, and adults are better protected from human trafficking in all its forms.

Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking
February 20-21, 2009 Berkeley, California
Brought to you by The Center for Race & Gender (UC Berkeley), Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery (Northern CA), and The End Internet Trafficking Coalition (USA)

As the internet has become more and more a part of the everyday in the U.S. and the global north, questions have arisen: How has the internet used as a tool for violence, for the trafficking and sexual exploitation of people? How has it used as a tool for social change to counter violence? In 2008 the End Internet Trafficking Coalition formed to address the increasing usages of services on the web to exploit people through labor and sex violence. In an effort to further the conversations that began with a national call through emails to collaborate, the coalition recorded an online presentation on the issue. February 20-21, 2009, in a conference meeting titled, "Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking" the coalition and collaborators met at UC Berkeley to address the complexities of human trafficking and the technoscapes of the web, as well as the prospects for countering human trafficking through theory and practice.

We are happy to report that the "Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking" (Feb 20-21, 2009 Berkeley CA) conference was a huge success. In part it was a huge success, thanks to our many sponsors and collaborators.

TSHIRTS: Please order your tshirts now with http://www.mydefinicion.com. Proceeds will go to helping with the cost of the conference that includes the cost of the Friday night venue, the food for the events, printing for the events, and the filming of the events.

DVD/RECORDING: We are currently in the midst of transcribing our event. We will update folks via email and on our website when dvd's are ready and other printed material/resources that will come out of the conference. Special thanks to our collaborators, Aaron Kai the videographer and Kyle Duponte the live audio recordist/production assistant at 43 Productions. Details coming soon at

SELF CARE: Okay folks, we are serious about self-care. We realize that we didn't organize a self-care component into the conference, but we hope that you have had sometime to decompress from the intensity of -the events. In order to be successful allies and partners in the anti-violence/anti-trafficking movement, we ourselves need to be healthy and in the best shape we can possibly be. Here are some suggestions on how you can take care of yourself after such an intense day of information and testimony:

The Mind:
- Take time out for yourself, don't feel bad about having alone time to process or even taking a break
- Meditate
- Breathing exercises to get oxygen into the brain
The body:
- Acupuncture/massage to help relax the body
- Therapy may have multiple meanings. We feel that speaking with someone is a great way to unload to an expert that is trained witthout overwhelming your friends. Other forms may include exercise, yoga, swimming, running, dancing, meditating, and/or cultural healing practices
The Spirit
- Connect with your spiritual practice whatever that means to you

**If you have any resources that you would like us to pass on to the group as to give suggestions on how to do self-care, please email info@eitcoalition.org

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
We want to send out a very special thank you to: Lars Berg, Crystal Zapata, Sister Caritas Foster, Sister Elaine Sanchez, Rahael Borchers and her father, Kristie Miller, Craig Merchant, and Monique Low for volunteering their time to make this conference a success.

We would like to send our thanks to the coalition members who imagined bringing this conference to the west coast, and making it a reality: Annie Fukushima (SAFEHS), Matthew Dorozenski (EITC), Kathy Maskell (Love146), Alexis Taylor Litos (The Barnaba Institute), Somanjana Bhattacharya (Love146), and Andrea Powell (FAIR Fund, Inc.)

And special thanks to our conference participants: Laura J. Lederer (Vice President for Policy and Planning Global Centurion), Linda Criddle (Internet Safety Expert), Melissa Farley (Prostitution Research & Education), Marissa Ugarte (Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition), and Norma Ramos (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women), Dalida Maria Benfield, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Nola Brantley (Misssey), Glenda Hope (SafeHouse), Praba Pilar (Performing Artist), Jung-Sook Choi (Anthropology, PhD Student, UCD), Judith Mirkinson (Gabriela Network), Alma Granado, PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Beth Bloom (Artist), Tina Kim (Asian Women’s Shelter), Gabriela Erandi Rico, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dylan Bolles, Sasha Hom, Suki O'Kane and Edward Schocker.

Thank you to the Sponsors: Berkeley Center for New Media (UC Berkeley), Institute for the Study of Social Change, Gender & Women's Studies and the Beatrice Bain Research Group (UC Berkeley),Love146, Prostitution Research & Education, FAIR Fund, Inc., The Barnaba Institute, Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery, Gabriela Network, Lyric at Berkeley, My Definicion, and Sisters of the Holy Family, Fremont, CA.

Publicity Sponsors:
Amnesty International, Chab Dai Coalition, Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law