Not My Life is a 2011 American independent documentary film about human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The film was written, produced, and directed by Robert Bilheimer (pictured in Senegal during filming), who had been asked to make the film by Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Not My Life addresses many forms of slavery, including the military use of children in Uganda, involuntary servitude in the United States, forced begging and garbage picking in India, sex trafficking in Europe and Southeast Asia, and other kinds of child abuse. Fifty people are interviewed in the film, including Don Brewster of Agape International Missions, who says that all of the girls they have rescued from child sex tourism in Cambodia identify Americans as the clients who were the most abusive to them. The film was dedicated to Richard Young, its cinematographer and co-director, after he died in December 2010. It had its premiere the following month at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Not My Life was named Best World Documentary at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_My_Life

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1292:

John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balliol

1839:

Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberto_(opera)

1950:

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama

1993:

General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha

2009:

Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

rory: 1. (obsolete) Covered by dew. 2. (obsolete) Of gaudy, tasteless, or unsubtle colors. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rory

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

In everything that lives, if one looks searchingly, is limned the shadow line of an idea — an idea, dead or living, sometimes stronger when dead, with rigid, unswerving lines that mark the living embodiment with the stern immobile cast of the non-living. Daily we move among these unyielding shadows, less pierceable, more enduring than granite, with the blackness of ages in them, dominating living, changing bodies, with dead, unchanging souls. And we meet, also, living souls dominating dying bodies — living ideas regnant over decay and death.   --Voltairine de Cleyre https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre