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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 will be meeting 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.

Invited speakers include, but not limited to: Linda Criddle (Author of Look Both Ways), Norma Ramos (Executive Director of Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women), Melissa Farley (Executive Director, Prostitution Research Education) and more! Check www.eitcoalition.org for updates Join us in a national conference to address the local and global dynamics of the internet and human trafficking, and the theorizing and practice of making change to end violence.