ELAINE MCCARTHY - POLARIS
Yesterday we saw a post on the Polaris page about a meeting being held about the issue of "fighting trafficking". One of our members said to me who was over visiting "nice of them to include us". Now how do we deal with resentments? We address them by not holding onto them and nursing them but by direct confrontation. So I told her " well say something then if you're unhappy". Which she did. I then got an email back from Elaine about why she deleted it and how uncool she thought the comment was basically. Our response was below: Elaine - you think this is about me. It's not. I run a program that's been around not only longer than yours, but made Polaris possible. I assure you back in the 1980's when we started our work no one believed trafficking was real any longer in the USA, nor did they care to. We spent 13 years of our lives, sacrificed jobs, homes, stability, relationships, in order to lay the groundwork that became