It's not as easy to make political progress against slavery as you might think. Seems like a no-brainer issue, but most people react strongly by turning away rather than getting engaged. It's one issue for which stories can be almost too powerful; they are difficult to hear, and it's challenging to translate their messages into public action. Plus, there are a lot of tricky immigration-related tradeoffs involved in clamping down on the forms of slavery that occur here in the U.S. I found this infographic (click here to view in detail) from Good Magazine to be a helpful, non-overwhelming visual to communicate the problem--and how we might go about addressing it.

On a related note, it's something that the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act advanced, somewhat unexpectedly, out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. It's an encouraging sign that anti-slavery advocates are making headway.