Matt Holliday, star slugger for the Oakland Athletics has joined team Free2Play by pledging $500 to the Not For Sale Campaign for every home run he hits this season. The funds will go to support a roller blading club in Oakland for girls who have escaped the commercial sex industry and a basketball program in Thailand for kids rescued from slavery.
Click here to find out how you too can make a Free2Play pledge!
San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has made a Free2Play Pledge — so that all children can be free to play.
This season, Jeremy has committed to give $100 to the Not For Sale Campaign for every strike-out he pitches.
The money Jeremy donates will go to support the work Not For Sale is doing to fight slavery across the globe:
In Peru — offering safe haven and care to hundreds of kids formerly trafficked on the dangerous streets of Lima. In Ghana — working to prevent the drowning and abuse of children sold into the local fishing industry. In Thailand — building a medical clinic stocked with $500,000 in needed supplies at our village for children rescued out of sex trafficking in the cities. In Northern Uganda — building schools for former child soldiers, providing the children with safety and education. In Nepal — fighting to prevent the trafficking of thousands of Nepalese women into India’s sex industry, and this year, raising the support needed to build them a medical clinic equipped with $2 million in donated medical supplies. And in Oakland, California, teenage girls rescued from the sex industry now take part in a rollerblade club created with Free2Play gifts.
Click HERE to learn more about Not For Sale’s international projects, and click HERE to learn how you too can be Free2Play.
Read more about Jeremy’s dedication to combating human trafficking in the recent San Francisco Chronicle Article.
President Obama has nominated Lou De baca as the next “anti-human trafficking Czar” and we are doing what we can to help ensure he is confirmed.
Throughout his service to the U.S. Government, Mr. de Baca has played a valuable role advising, directing, and enforcing the federal anti-trafficking policies. During his tenure as lead prosecutor, Mr. de Baca saw the conviction of more than 100 traffickers and liberated more than 600 victims, records unchallenged in a post-reconstruction era.
As one of the first governmental anti-slavery and anti-trafficking advocates, Mr. de Baca began working on the issue of human trafficking in the mid-1990s, first pioneering the use of servitude statutes to prosecute exploitative pimps for violating their victims’ rights. During the Clinton Administration he helped convene the first national interagency working group on human trafficking and spearheaded the Justice Department’s efforts to update slavery statutes, which resulted in the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons requires a leader who has an extensive background and knowledge of this issue, along with the ability to cooperate with a diverse constituency, multiple government agencies, and direct a variety of programs. Mr. de Baca’s experience securing traffickers’ convictions, liberating victims, and directing policy has had a substantial impact on the United States success in confronting trafficking.
Mr. de Baca needs your suppor! Sign our online petition to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support his confirmation!
10 Border Outposts – With your help, we will raise $10,000 for our International Project in Nepal.
10 Weeks – We can do it! The contest runs March 27-June 5, 2009.
Just for giving $10, you will:
Most Members Recruited + Most Money Raised = GRAND PRIZE WINNER!
Top 20 contestants will receive a special NFSC “Live Differently” T-shirt
With your help, NFSC will raise $10,000 to reach 10 Border Outposts for our International project in Nepal. To date, we have 8 Border Outposts helping to save women/children from being trafficked into the commercial sex trade in India. The additional 2 outposts will cost $5,000.00 each. Our team in Nepal has already saved over 1900 women and children. With the power of 10, we will dramatically expand their efforts!
Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to the Global Forum!
A bill introduced by Canadian MP Joy Smith, which increases minimum sentences for offences involving trafficking of 
minors, needs your support. Tell your MP to vote in favor of bill C-268 to amend the Criminal Code by calling your Parliament Office at 1 (866) 599-4999.
Mrs. Smith is one of the leading advocates in the Canadian Parliament focusing on human trafficking, and a close friend of the campaign. On his recent trip to Canada David Batstone, President of the Not For Sale Campaign, had the pleasure to meet with Mrs. Smith shortly after she had introduced this needed legislation. On March 25th, the 202nd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Canada, Mrs. Smith hailed the work of the Not For Sale Campaign, our Canadian partners, and creation of slaverymap.ca, in Parliament stating:
Dr. David Batstone, co-founder of the Not For Sale Campaign, has led modern day abolitionists’ to combat human trafficking. I am pleased to commend Dr. David Batstone, Professor Benjamin Perrin and the students of the University of British Columbia “Human Trafficking Working Group” as well as the Canadian Religious Conference for launching the website, slaverymap.ca last week, a tool to track human trafficking cases in Canada.
I would invite honourable members and all Canadians to visit the website, and help end slavery once and for all in Canada.
We are asking that you, our Canadian constituent, support Mrs. Smith and bill C-268 by calling your MP in Parliament and urging them to support this legislation.
In a landmark announcement Mars follows Cadbury chocolate by committing to source their chocolate Fairtrade, hoping to complete the conversion by 2020.
Cadbury Chocolate, one of the major chocolate manufactures primarily operating in the U.K., announced this month that they would certify that their dairy-milk chocolate is Fair Trade by the end of summer 2009. In a statement issued, Chief Executive for Cadbury, Todd Stitzer said:
“This is an historic moment for our company. I am proud that the nation’s favourite chocolate bar will display the FAIRTRADE Mark. I was in Ghana last month and saw how vital it is that businesses support their partners and the communities they live in. We believe that by joining forces with the Fairtrade Foundation, we can further improve living standards and conditions for farmers and farming communities, and create a sustainable supply of high quality cocoa for Cadbury.”
Through this single decision Cadbury has increased the amount of Certified Fair Trade Chocolate sold by three fold. While Cadbury’s decision does not change the need to certify all chocolate produced “Free to Work“, it is a step in the right direction.
The movement to ensure all chocolate is produced using free labor began by a small, but persistent, population of people demanding change (the stick) and Cadbury chocolate has responded. Increased responsibility has now turned back to Consumers Advocates. With an increased portion of revenue, we as consumers MUST prove to Cadbury, and the other major chocolate companies, that this behavior will be rewarded with increased profits (the Carrot).
The decision by Mars and Cadbury will not solve the problem within the chocolate industry, nor will these companies recieve a free pass on th
e rest of their products, but it is a huge step in the right direction.
As consumers we must prove that Fair Trade Certification has a competative advantage over non-Fair Trade Chocolate.
On October 8-9, 2009, leading experts confronting human trafficking will gather in Carlsbad, CA to discuss and strategize innovative techniques to address prevention, protection, and prosecution. This unique event will foster collaboration among government leaders, law enforcement, service providers, and nongovernmental organizations while examining topics such as constructing a regional task force, countering corruption, and undermining trafficking rings.
The Global Forum on Human Trafficking hosted by the Not For Sale Campaign is proud to announce renowned speakers such as:
Join us at the Global Forum on Human Trafficking on October 8th and 9th… Where leaders gather to design a slave free future.
For more information and to register, visit globalforumonhumantrafficking.org
Questions? Email laura hailing from notforsalecampaign from the TLD of org
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