“Committed to ending modern-day slavery and sexual exploitation by raising awareness through the media and grassroots mobilization, education, advocacy and policy.” 
 

WARNING: This newsletter may be disturbing because it’s true.

     

Dear Warrior:

Reality. It’s 2023. The predators are winning. We must face facts and truths. Why are they winning? What can we do about it in our own homes and communities? There is so much more awareness and focus in 2023 than past years. Many groups, organizations, non-profits and individuals are collectively working towards one goal. Ending human slavery and the sexual exploitation of our children. We must remain and become Warriors.

                                     


                                                    Let’s Learn More

 
Every year since 2010, January has been proclaimed as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. We take time each January to share information, resources and take actions to educate ourselves and the public. We learn more about human trafficking and what action steps can be taken to prevent human trafficking. We aim to make an impact. Together.
 
The face of human trafficking has changed drastically. It evolves almost on a daily basis. However, one thing remains. It escalates every day. Think of it as a big wheel with many spokes. The wheel turns non-stop. It is moving so fast and it is so hard to keep up with. I refer to trafficking as “slavery.” It is a much more accurate word to describe this human rights abuse and crime.
 
We have the Internet. We have a government and, if I didn’t know better, sanctioned drug and human trafficking business on our United States southern border. We see no end in sight. We have today’s education system. Instead of prioritizing reading, writing and arithmetic, our kids are being introduced to ideologies that have nothing to do with learning. We have “entertainment” glorifying the “sex worker.” We have marketers that look at children as currency. We have a society hell-bent on normalizing the sexualization of our children. Why? Making money and more money and much more money. Sadly, that is the bottom line. Profit over the human dignity of our precious children.

 
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Every child deserves to feel and be safe, happy and enjoy life. How can anyone disagree with this? Why is it so hard today to protect our children? We have the data. We share the data. Our government knows all of this. Big Tech is aware. Corporate media has the information. So what is the problem? It seems that they are allowing these criminal enterprises to flourish and grow every minute?
 

• Online Youth Enticement.  In 2021, NCMEC's CyberTipline received 29.3 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation, an increase of 35% from 2020. This includes sextortion.

• Real-time Youth Facts. In the United States, an estimated 460,000 + children are reported missing every year. However, this figure has not been updated in recent years. Therefore, we know that the number must be higher. Whether sex trafficking, family abductions, runaways, our youth are endangered.
• United States Border Facts as of January 12, 2023. Monthly encounters with migrant children at U.S.-Mexico border remain near record highs. We have no true transparency with how many unaccompanied children are being brought over the border by the criminal cartels. No matter what you think about all of this, these children are in danger during their trips and when they arrive here in the U.S. Where are all the children going? What is happening to them? We do know that exploitation on our border is alive and thriving. Who’s protecting these vulnerable kids?

 Engage. Educate. Empower ourselves and our children.

So What Are We to Do?
Community Creates Change

Take Action. It’s January. New Year. New Thinking. Communicate with your kids. It is our duty to protect our children online and in real-time against the enemy, the predators. It starts with talking with and to your children, age-appropriate and being honest. There are bad people online and in real-life. Let them know that they can always tell you right away about anyone if approached online or in person by a stranger or if someone is making them uncomfortable. Empower kids to come forth and assure them that there will be no judgment.

Take Action. Know your facts. The NCTSN in recognition of January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month has compiled resources for children, teens, parents and caregivers, educators, child welfare and juvenile justice professionals and mental health providers. Plus always refer to available resources from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Take Action. Use your Lynn’s Warriors Tool Kit and find out how to contact your elected representatives. Ask them what they are doing about child safety in your community.

Please share this newsletter with family and friends.

                 
                                There is help. There is hope. 

Please always check on your loved ones and friends who might be in need of someone to talk to and care. Find more resources at 988 Lifeline.

                                         

                                    
                   
                     Wherever the kids are . . . so are the predators.

                                   

           If we help one child a day, then we have done our job. 

                                               


                                       


                                            

                                          

                                         BE A WARRIOR!

                 

Gabb Wireless – Technology has countless benefits and allowing children to use safe technology in moderation can help them learn phone etiquette and media literacy skills. However, too much of anything can be harmful. By taking the steps to balance tech in their lives, kids have more time to be kids and learn healthy tech habits.

                   
 

Sound the Alarm. January. Take It Down.  A FREE service provided by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It will help you remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you when you were under 18 years old. You can remain anonymous while using the service and you won’t have to send your images or videos to anyone.

Just Announced. January 13. Fentanyl Helps Push Overdose Deaths to Record Level in New York City Driven by fentanyl’s prevalence and the pandemic’s isolation and despair, drug overdose deaths have soared in New York City, reaching their highest point since the health department began tracking them more than two decades ago. Parents Beware. Fentanyl is everywhere. Learn more and how to discuss with your child.
 

Washington DC. Are book bans discrimination? Biden administration to test new legal theory. The federal government has opened an investigation into a Texas school district over its alleged removal of books featuring LGBTQ characters — marking the first test of a new legal argument that failing to represent students in school books can constitute discrimination.

In the News. January 13. How Big Pharma Benefits From Our Industrial Food Diet Skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S., including children, raise questions about what we’re eating, whether today’s food acts more like a drug, and how Big Pharma benefits from our industrial food diet. the American Academy of Pediatrics on Jan. 9 issued new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity that included recommendations for physicians to offer weight-loss drugs and surgery to obese children.

 
Good News. OFF THE STREETS! January 12. Hummer-driving Michigan 'serial monster' with terrifying face tattoos is accused of being sex trafficker 'general' who filed his teeth into FANGS to frighten his 'victims' He commanded several underlings to do his bidding, including kidnapping young women, prosecutors say. Michael Barajas, 36, who is seen sporting multiple face tattoos in his mugshot from the Genesee County Sheriff's Office, is accused of building a human trafficking gang called the 'Massad Squad.'  They're said to have prowled around in a Hummer looking for victims. 

Education. January. ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks New York City's Department of Education announced a ban on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT — which some have warned could inspire more student cheating — from its schools’ devices and networks.

 Tech Talk. January 13. 90% of online content could be ‘generated by AI by 2025,’ expert says Generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, could completely revamp how digital content is developed, said Nina Schick, adviser, speaker, and A.I. thought leader.

"I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential," she said. "I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI. You see ChatGPT... but there are a whole plethora of other platforms and applications that are coming up." What could go wrong?

Media Microscope. January 10. Newsweek. Opinion by Michael Shively and Stephany Powell The Undeniable Failure of Permissive Approaches to Prostitution The movement to legalize prostitution, or "sex work," gained traction last year and is likely to continue in 2023. Proponents of eliminating laws against prostitution argue that doing so promotes the health and safety of all involved, reduces abuses against those in the trade by destigmatizing it and removing barriers to reporting assaults to police, and frees up scarce police resources to focus on the more serious problem of sex trafficking.

It all sounds good, even sensible, when well presented. But none of it is true. How do we know? Because legalization has been tried many times, in many places, in many forms, over many decades, and failed every time.

Warrior Reality. January 12. Rima Nashashibi, Founder & President Global Hope 365 joins The Lynn Shaw Show on TNT Radio Live to explain how, why and what we can do about 43 states allowing minors to get married. What? Yes. This is an American crisis. Who's talking about this? Few, but we are.
 

Warrior Spotlight. 

Warrior Thanks. 

January 11. New York City. What an honor to be in attendance at the press conference announcing #GoyaCares, coalition initiatives and new programs to combat human trafficking on Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Pictured is the great team from Goya Foods, President & CEO Bob Unanue and Moderator Natalie Maniscalco.

Mark Your Calendar. January 21. NY. WONDER GIRLS Summit. FREE! Wonder Girls is on a mission to keep every girl and teen safe by educating the community to help prevent any harm from happening. #WeAreNotForSale They will be teaching two workshops on self-defense and online safety, followed by a Q&A panel discussion with the Center for Safety & Change, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, and the Rockland County DA. 

                                             

DO YOU KNOW WHAT SEXTORTION IS? The practice of extorting money or sexual favors from someone by threatening to reveal evidence of their sexual activities. 

                          

                                                  ENGAGE EDUCATE EMPOWER

JANUARY RECOMMENDED READING 
 

You Are Your Own Best Teacher! provides a remarkable variety of teachable antidotes to the punishing forces bearing down on youngsters from harmful marketing, the insidious grip of ‘virtual reality’ and the tyranny of peer groups. Apprehensive parents and burdened teachers will delight in the lessons of this book for Tweens (nine to twelve year olds). It will spark their innate curiosity, imagination and idealism. Tweens, who are whipsawed by relentless distractions, profit-driven manipulations and oncoming addictions, are guided toward elevating their own sense of significance, protection and realizable achievements. Through this process of discovery, they explore wider frames of reference with roles inside and outside the family environment.Many motivating stories from history to the present make Claire Nader’s gentle nudges toward self-educational experiences exciting. 
 

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                                                                    WARNING!  

                                             
                        

The number of young kids who ate marijuana-laced candy rose sharply over five years, putting many in hospital, according to the latest study warning against America's experiment with legal pot.

Between 2017 and 2021, US poison control centers witnessed a 14-fold increase in calls about youngsters who got their hands on cannabis edibles, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics.

Though many of the children experienced only minor symptoms, like excessive sleepiness, researchers say nearly a quarter ended up in hospital and warn about the emergence of a new household safety hazard.

RELEASED by SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL. Every year, Report Cards on Child & Youth Sex Trafficking are released to update anti-trafficking stakeholders, state legislators and activists on each state’s status related to legislative efforts addressing child and youth sex trafficking. Learn more. Take action.  

              

                         

                 

 
                

                                                     
                                                                                                                                       

                                    
 

                             COMMUNITY CREATES CHANGE

 

Take Action. Warrior Workshops emphasize that communication is key and supplies the tools and resources to accomplish this. Lynn’s Warriors educates children, teens, parents, teachers, trusted adults, healthcare professionals, law enforcement, community leaders and businesses and places of worship about the escalating impact of the Internet and protection from predators lurking online and in real time. Lynn’s Warriors focuses on and offers education and training about human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The emphasis and challenges are for everyone to become a Warrior in their own homes and communities. Lynn’s Warriors are essential, critical and now available to you and your community. Here we come, NY, CT, NJ and the entire United States! Stay tuned. Please learn more  

Lynn’s Warriors is at the forefront of raising awareness and mobilizing and coordinating community, state and national advocates, elected officials, representatives and leaders to work in a comprehensive and integrated approach to best address the issues and work at ending the demand that confronts our most  vulnerable and precious citizens. Lynn’s Warriors utilizes a coordinated synergy to educate about all forms of digital predation, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), sextortion and all forms of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Learn more about becoming a Warrior and why Warrior Workshops are needed in your community. For more information Email Lynn. 

Please use these helpful hashtags on your social media platforms to raise awareness about human trafficking and sexual exploitation issues and initiatives:   

#HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth
#EmpowerOurYouth
#YouthGivesUsHope
#PeerToPeer
#CommunicateWithKids
#ProtectChildrenOnline
#RealTimeSafety
#EngageEducateEmpower
#MissingKids
#WarriorWednesdayRadio
#WarriorSaturdayRadio
And always #LynnsWarriors 

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 Warrior Wednesday WVOX 01-18-2023 lays out the Warriors groundwork for 2023! The theme is Rallying Around Youth. Learn how you can help engage, educate and empower all kids to say no to predation. Make sure to listen to my 12-28-22 interview with Dahlia Locke, Co-Chair of the World Without Exploitation Youth Coalition. A group of young leaders 15-25 forging a path to creating a world where no one is bought, sold or exploited. EVER. A must-listen. Buckle up! Only on Lynn’s Warriors WVOX Radio. Join us every Wednesday from 3-4PM ET 1460AMNY WVOX App WVOX.com = Across the Universe!
 

                  
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And don't forget to listen to Lynn's Warriors on WVOX Wednesdays at 3PM ET and always follow Lynn’s Warriors for current news and updates about our mission to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Please tune in to the Lynn's Warriors YouTube Channel and subscribe. 

HELP FUND THE FIGHT AND KEEP THE SURVIVOR VOICE FRONT AND CENTER. Your Lynn’s Warriors donation supports the mission of stopping human trafficking and promoting sexual exploitation education as well as helping survivors reclaim their lives through purpose and providing financial support.    
 

The time is now.
Healing.
We must protect our vulnerable children.
We can do this.
We must do this.
We are #Warriors