TAKING THE FIRST STEPS
...Not for Sale is a campaign of students, entrepreneurs, artists, people Not for Sale aims to educate and mobilize an international abolitionist movement through the innovation and implementation of open-source activism. Inside the United States, the campaign identifies trafficking rings and collaborates with local law enforcement and community groups to shut them down and provide support for the victims. Internationally, the campaign partners with poorly resourced abolitionist groups to enhance their capacity.
Every single person has a skill that they can give to free an individual living in bondage.
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Invite all of your Facebook friends to join the Not for Sale Campaign Facebook cause.
Earn $3 for our anti-slavery operations simply for voting on good music. It costs you nothing and you won’t get spammed. Three bucks, that’s the price of a trafficked child on the border of Thailand and Laos.
Enlighten your congressional representatives. Not for Sale works in coalition with nine of the world’s leading abolitionist organizations. The Action Group’s aim is to shape government policy and laws by giving voice to service providers who work daily with trafficking survivors. Visit The Action Group website to see what Congress is working on to combat global slavery and see what you can do to make your voice heard.
Run a Freedom Store for one hour a week at your faith community, your school, your workplace. We supply you with products made by emancipated slaves or communities vulnerable to trafficking. Shopping can give dignity or it can deliver misery. We supply the inventory, you ring up the cash register.
To open a Freedom Store, email us here
Learn how to combat trafficking in your area. The Not For Trade Show looks something like this:
Call to Action: A short documentary to frame the need for mapping projects
Training: Conduct a 1 to 1.5 hour seminar imparting the process/tools we learned in SF
Community Outreach: Head out into the surrounding community to disperse demand reduction materials (drink coasters and business hotline cards)
Feature Film: Present a feature film about trafficking
DOWNLOAD an informational PDF.
To host a Trade Show, email us here
Throw a Free to Play event for your sports team. Whether you are the coach, a player, or a team parent, you can organize one game during the season that is your free to play game. Team members wear Free to Play T-shirts during warm-ups (or the game itself), fans pledge a donation for each basket/goal/touchdown /spike/ace/run scored, and the community gets an education in the global people trade.
To get your team involved, email us here
Take part in an immersion trip to Thailand, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua or Peru in 2008. Our journeys are designed to equip you to be a global abolitionist.
If you’d like to go as an individual, or organize a group trip, email us here
Join Freedom Fighters, our monthly donor pledge program for our most hard-core supporters. Your support helps us to fight the people trade inside the United States and internationally.
Make your financial commitment here