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How Rock ‘N Roll Apparel Fights Slavery
Not For Sale and Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum rock ‘n’ roll band Third Day have joined forces to to prevent human trafficking in one of the world’s most vulnerable areas. The purchase of a limited-edition Free2Rock T-shirt will provide jobs, training and economic development for at-risk men, women, and children in the Peruvian Amazon. Proceeds ensure those vulnerable to exploitation will have the opportunity for a bright future: One where they are free to go to school, get a job and live dignified lives.
Third Day Comes Together with Not For Sale for Freedom
Proceeds from this month’s campaign will help Not For Sale create programs that
encourage economic development and provide jobs and artisan skills training for vulnerable
communities in the Peruvian Amazon.
Rock out with Third Day to prevent exploitation, protect freedom and dignity, and
educate others on human trafficking.
Romanian Gangs Use Olympics to Recruit Victims
The rate at which Romanians are being trafficked to London is rapidly increasing in the months leading up to the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Daily Mail reports that in London alone “Police recently discovered 50 women believed to have been trafficked into the area to work as prostitutes and arrested four female beggars using babies as young as three weeks old.”
From Free2Work: The Attitude-Behavior Gap
Do you believe that companies should be socially responsible? Would you be willing to pay somewhat more for a product produced by a company committed to offering decent working conditions? Would you be willing to forsake your favorite brand in favor of a brand that actively works to address the issues of forced labor and child labor? Many people would probably instantly and spontaneously answer yes to these questions. However, if you are among those answering yes, consider how often you in practice haven chosen to buy a more expensive product because it is a product produced by a company committed to social responsibility. How often have you in reality chosen to buy a less familiar brand in order to support a company actively fighting the crimes of involuntary labor and under aged labor?
From Free2Work: Linking Human Trafficking and the Environment
“Today more than ever, society has come to recognize that the anthropogenic destruction of our planet’s sustainable biodiversity negatively impacts humankind, placing human life at risk. The cause-and effect relationship that exists between environmental collapse and the subsequent risk to our existence can no longer be ignored.” – Romina Picollotti, Linking Human Rights and the Environment
An Interview With Kevin Austin
In the United States, we eat tomatoes, strawberries, and blueberries that may have been harvested by slaves. We wear clothing and use technology that comes from places where slavery is producing consumer goods. Seventy percent of the world’s chocolate comes from a region where there’s slave labor. And this brings me back to the matter of personal righteousness versus social righteousness: we can’t say that we love Jesus and that we’re going to follow God while not caring about the economics surrounding our lives or about how we live our lives. The good news is that when we make a stand, a handful of people become an army of people one day at a time, one issue at a time. If everybody stops eating slave-harvested chocolate, the people who sell that chocolate are going to change their ways because they want to make money. And so while we all contribute to modern-day slavery, we all have an incredible opportunity to change it.
Spotted: Halle Berry in the New NFS AllSaints Collection
Not even a month has gone by since the Spring 2012 Not For Sale AllSaints collection hit retail stores worldwide. Not For Sale is thrilled with the popularity of the new line. Halle Berry was recently spotted in Beverly Hills in the Statement Crew, an exclusive tee from the second capsule T-shirt collection.
Jewish Communities Proclaim Freedom for Captives with Freedom Shabbat
Freedom Shabbat 2012 was celebrated by more than 125 Jewish communities in nine different countries. Once enslaved in Egypt, Jewish people were reminded on Freedom Shabbat that with freedom comes responsibility and the opportunity to help repair the world. Just prior to the meal, the prayers for the wine and the matzah remind us all that everything that comes to us is a gift. We should therefore use these gifts in freedom and for freedom. Synagogues, Jewish Schools, Hillels, Jewish organizations, and family units across the world celebrated Passover, freedom, and justice.
ACADEMIC ACTIVISM | FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SYDNEY
Academic Activism aspires to create justice holistically by empowering individuals to use their education as their advocacy. This is exemplified by the work of Not For Sale Australia and the University of Technology Sydney who are featuring two unique avenues of academic engagement: the Sydney Supply Chain Academy and the Free2Work Research Fellowship.
