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Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

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  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Get Up, Stand Up
From: Re:Work
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When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:02
Underground Trade Part 2: The Route Through Queens
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 8: What Now?
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Individuals can take heroic steps to stop human trafficking, like the cab driver in Saigon who rescued 11- and 12-year-olds enslaved in garment fac...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 3: The Business of Trafficking
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Why would someone fly 8,500 miles and spend $4,000 dollars to pony up to a bar in Pattaya, Thailand? “If they go into Pattaya, it’s not because Pa...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 6
Underground Trade Part 6: Trading in Shame
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. The ...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 1: Hiding in Plain Sight
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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On a warm night a Boston suburb saw its image altered with the arrests of individuals connected to a massage parlor. Behind the closed doors poli...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 7: Modern Day Slavery in America
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Chinatown, Manhattan, Credit: Meredith Nierman, WGBH
If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 5