Shrimp and slavery

india and baseball

I just got an email from the Not For Sale campaign with a link to this article about child sweatshop laborers in Delhi, India. This particular raid was successful and the government has a plan to return the kids to their families and fund their education. Unfortunately, this is just a small success story in the middle of a much bigger problem. It is encouraging, though, to see that kids are not only being freed but are also being provided for.

On another note, the San Francisco Giant's pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has been working with Not For Sale and has committed to their Team Free2Play. You can show your support for Jeremy by voting for him through the All Stars Helping Kids organization.

The Women's Crusade

It's long, but this piece by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is fabulous. It's part of a longer book entitled Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide that I really want to read.

Slumdog Millionaire

I finally saw "Slumdog Millionaire" last night. Everyone had been telling me that I would love it, but I thought that it was already out of the theaters so I had given up hope of seeing it before it was released on DVD. But miracle of miracles it was still playing in a theater nearby and I SAW IT!

And it was really wonderful.

It's filmed so artistically that it would be beautiful to watch even if it had a terrible plot and characters, and MIA did a lot of the soundtrack, which made me extremely happy.

I loved the kids; I loved two hours of voices talking with musical, beautiful accents; I loved the overwhelming color and movement, and the huge crowds of people, that portray India so perfectly to me; I especially loved the scene in which Salim was refiling and resealing water bottles to sell to unknowing tourists.

Anyway, I thought it was fantastic.