Freedom Pledge for 2012Join Freedom Week and NYU's Against Child Trafficking in making a pledge for 2012!
Pledge to improve the lives of those who have few opportunities, who may be forced into prostitution or servitude, who do not have the support they need to keep them safe from traffickers. Small decisions add up to big change. Some may have financial impact for you, but consider — what's the price of freedom? Here are some ideas: - Pledge to buy only Fair Trade chocolate in 2012 - Pledge to buy only Fair Trade coffee in 2012 - Read a book about modern slavery; learn its many forms, then keep reading! - Watch a documentary or film about trafficking - Buy gifts that help vulnerable populations - Mentor an at-risk kid, wherever you live (in the NYC area, contact Hope for New York or Girls Write Now) - Pledge a pledge! Countless organizations would greatly benefit from your financial support; as little as $10 a month will help. Any of our partner organizations from this year or years past can do wonderful things with your financial support! Pledge to make the world better, for 2012 and beyond! Then share your pledge with everyone in your world, and encourage others to do the same! For more details, suggestions or ideas, ask us! How will you make a difference in 2012? Happy (Free) New Year! |
Freedom Week 2010Stop Child Trafficking Now walkOctober 9, 2010
62nd Street Adjacent to Lincoln Center 9 am-12 pm Congratulations to SCTNow for another successful walk to raise awareness! Guest speakers included Stephen Baldwin and Caroline Manzo. SCTNow is an innovative organization working to fight the demand side of child sex trafficking. Awareness to AbolitionOctober 8, 2010
Calvary Baptist Church 8 pm. Admission is free Join NYC musicians and spoken artists as we gather to move from apathy to awareness to focused action in fighting human trafficking. Not For Sale's New York state director Deirdre Mars will lay out a comprehensive definition on the types of modern slavery and explain how to get involved in the abolition movement through the Not For Sale Campaign. New York City Urban Project's spoken word artist Jonathan Walton will perform and lay out a framework for staying involved in this work for the long-term as we seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly after God. Other performers include Kayte Grace and SHINE. Kayte is a singer/songwriter who just finished a 20-city tour this summer. She's a senior at Columbia and a "youtube star". Her two albums are available online at kaytegracemusic.com, and via i-tunes. SHINE is NYU's premiere Christian acapella group led by Jamie Chang, another talented singer/songwriter. Light refreshments will be served and representatives from other organizations will be on hand to answer questions and offer further opportunities to convert awareness into action. Join us! Free2Work workshopOctober 4, 2010
74 Trinity Pl 7 pm. Admission is free Imagine: you wake up in the morning, shuffle to the kitchen in your soft cotton pajamas, and set the coffee, adding sugar and a dash of cocoa to your cup to make it a mocha. Unless you've gone out of your way in purchasing these products, it is highly likely that your cotton, your coffee, your sugar and your cocoa were grown, picked or processed by slaves. How do we move toward an economy that is free of slavery? By examining supply chains and empowering consumers. Come to this workshop to learn how to use and expand the Free2Work.org platform to eliminate labor slavery in our supply-chains. An Evening of PoetryOctober 3, 2010
Verlaine Bar 110 Rivington St (between Essex and Ludlow Sts) 4-6 pm. Admission is $5 Please join us for the closing night of Freedom Week with art and poetry inspired by the plight of trafficked victims. Published poet Tamiko Beyer and award-winning spoken word artist Kelly Tsai will explore themes of entrapment, deception and exploitation, as well as liberation, healing and transcendence. In addition, female artists from around NYC have collaborated on an art exhibition, Freeing the Woman, that powerfully conceptualizes the experiences of trafficked and enslaved women, as well as the requisite subjugation and objectification of them. Featured speaker Alissa Moore of Nomi Network will talk about her organization's unique strategy to combat sex trafficking as well as respond to questions from the audience. Nomi's beautiful slave-free products, whose sale benefits Nomi's outreach projects, will also be available. This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Shadowlands dance performanceOctober 1, 2010
The LABA Theater at the 14th Street Y 8-11 pm. Admission is $15. Shadowlands, a modern dance work, created by Sarah Council Dance Projects, journeys into the world of modern day slavery. Inspired by the stories of sex trafficking survivors, five dancers move in and out of confining set pieces to the haunting music of Greg Heffernan. Shadowlands will be paired with another Sarah Council selection called Hold Sway, a duet that maps a continual struggle for control through reoccurring images and interactions that range from tender to oppressive. The evening will conclude with a Q&A panel, featuring sex trafficking and victim after-care experts such as Restore founder Faith Huckel. ** We will be collecting gently used t-shirts at the door to donate to the efforts of Hello Rewind. Don't miss a great opportunity to clean out your closet for a worthy cause! This event is presented by Love146 New York in partnership with Sarah Council Dance Projects. Child Labor Slavery film shortsOctober 2, 2010
NYU Kimmel Center 4-6 pm. Admission is free. New York University's Against Child Traffickingis proud to present two short films on child labor slavery: this year's Oscar-nominated Kavi, a fictional film about a child slave working the brick kilns in India, and Restaveks: Haiti's Child Slaves, a documentary brief focusing on the centuries-old tradition of child trafficking in Haiti and the U.S. Following the screening will be a Q&A panel with featured speakers: Carmen Russell, the director of Restaveks, and Jean-Robert Cadet, a former restavek turned activist. The Center for Women of New York walkathonSeptember 25, 2010
Fort Totten Park, Queens Starts at 10 am. The Center for the Women of New York is part of a coalition against sex and human trafficking in the New York area. Women and men of New York will be walking at Fort Totten Park in Queens to raise funds for the Center's new home-to-be at Fort Totten. Please join us and support our mission to assist women in need. Brick-by-Brick campaignSeptember 30, 2010
Please contribute to this amazing organization's campaign to build a safehouse in NYC for sex trafficked survivors. Restore has reached its modest goal, but additional funding is always welcome and much-needed. Increased Rights, Decreased TraffickingSeptember 30, 2010
Columbia University W. 122nd St (at Amsterdam Ave), northeast corner, room C03 8:30-9:30 pm. Admission is free. Hosted by Hapa Caucus at Columbia University's School of Social Work, this panel probes the connection between workers' rights and human trafficking, explaining how much they affect each other. Featured panelists include speakers from Nomi Network, Safe Horizon and Damayan Migrant Wokers Association. Art Auction to benefit History Starts NowSeptember 30, 2010
Tela Design Studio 7-9 pm. Admission is $15. History Starts Now, which fights domestic trafficking of children and helps to empower women who have been victims of trafficking and domestic abuse, will host a silent art auction, curated by artist Asya Geisberg, at Tela Design Studio in the Meatpacking District. Featured speakers include HSN founder Kristina Grandstaff, among others. Sold, a play based on the novel by Patricia McCormickSeptember 29, 2010
Sweet Carolines Showings at 7:30 pm and 10 pm. Admission is $10. Don't miss the last evening of the Freedom Week stage productions of Sold. Based on the award-winning novel by Patricia McCormick and adapted for the stage by writer Tessa Hauptman and director Jennifer Mulligan, Sold highlights the realities of human trafficking in today's society. Set inside the walls of a brothel, the play examines the experience of young women and girls who have been sold into a life of sex slavery, and depicts what life is truly like for women and girls locked in a life of sex slavery…bringing New Yorkers into contact with real people and real stories. **A second show has been added to Wednesday evening, so you have two chances to catch this amazing production! These productions of Sold are being presented by Not For Sale, New York chapter. Be a Bio. Grapher-a Blind Project initiativeSeptember 25-October 7, 2010
Online, via website The Blind Project invites you to be inspired and turn it into art. Be a Bio.Grapher brings together an inspirational story of survival with artists' portrayals of these amazing stories. The competition is accepting entries through Sept. 15th, and will then solicit votes through Oct. 7th. Go on! Check out the amazing work! Vote! The submissions are beautiful, creative, moving, and inspiring. Please take a few moments to be touched by this artwork, to make your voice heard, and to make a difference. |
Freedom Week 2009What's Next: Call to Action networkingSeptember 27, 2009
All Angels' Church 7-9 pm. Admission is free. Spoken word poet Jonathan Walton will speak to the future of the fight against modern slavery and the path ahead for those who wish to answer the call to action. Anti-trafficking organizations from throughout NYC will be present with more information about volunteering and other opportunities for involvement. Stop Child Trafficking Now walkSeptember 27, 2009
62nd Street Adjacent to Lincoln Center 9 am-12 pm History will be made on September 27, 2009, as individuals, corporations, religious organizations, communities and student groups come from all over to participate in the inaugural WALK to Stop Child Trafficking Now! This global event is slated to attract thousands of people who will walk throughout the world, while raising funds and broadening awareness for Stop Child Trafficking Now! This event has already attracted tremendous attention from the media, notable celebrities and numerous organizations interested in ending this heinous crime. Featured speakers include SCTNow founders Ron and Lynette Lewis; Clark Stuart, president of the Special Operatives and Lisa Bevere, founder of Pearl Aliance. Call + Response documentarySeptember 26, 2009
New York University, Kimmel Center 3:30-6 pm. Admission is free. A music documentary that explores the many faces and forms of modern slavery and human trafficking, incorporating special musical performances by Moby and Five for Fighting, undercover footage and interviews with luminaries in the field. The film will be preceded by special guest speaker Ambassador Luis de Baca of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, who will also participate in the panel and Q&A following the film. Other guest panelists include Taina Bien-Amie of Equality Now; and Jennifer Dreher of Safe Horizon. Faces of Freedom photography exhibit co-sponsored by UNICEF & RugMarkSeptember 26, 2009
UNICEF Danny Kaye Visitors' Center 10 am-4 pm. Admission is free To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNICEF’s Danny Kaye Visitor’s Center will host "Faces of Freedom," an acclaimed nationally touring photography exhibit co-sponsored by the nonprofit RugMark and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. This collection of black-and-white and color photographs, taken by acclaimed documentary photographer U. Roberto Romano in South Asia, depicts illegal child labor in the handmade rug industry and RugMark’s innovative, replicable solution to the problem. Exhibit will run from Sept. 21-Oct. 31. Predators and Prey online art exhibit
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