THE GENERAL RESPONSE OF THE ORGANIZED WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE US

• To ignore the problem because it is an "international" issue and not a domestic one... until trafficking, particularly the mail-order bride practice, started affecting white Eastern European women.
  
  
  
• To treat the issue as a philosophical question, arguing whether it is a matter of "choice" on the part of the individual women or not, whether prostitution is "work" or not, whether unionization is the answer or not.
  
  
  
• To ignore the function of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank and the World Trade Organization in warping the economies of countries like the Philippines, so that poverty becomes endemic and an endless supply of poor and desperate women are created, for the global sex trade and the international labor market.
  
  
  
• Outrage becomes visible only when a battered mail-order bride turns out to be a white woman from Russia or Eastern Europe; deafening silence when the Seattle women and Estelita Reeves were killed.
  
  
  
• Individual feminists and progressive women have joined and continue to join GABRIELA Network in opposing this greatest crime of the last 50 years.
  
  
  

1. Why Campaign Against Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children

2. Trafficking in the United States

3. Response of the Organized Women's Movement in the US

4. GABNet's Position

5. The Components of the Purple Rose Campaign

6. How to Join the Purple Rose Campaign