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.

This Mother’s Day, Give a Gift that Gives Dignity

“95% of chocolate on store shelves today has been sourced unethically*,” says Kristen Carr, Director of Not For Sale Houston. “But here in Houston, we’re lucky enough to have a chocolate company called Araya, which has chocolate that is not only delicious, but ethically-made as well.”

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.

From HQ: Ending Slavery In Our Lifetime

At Not For Sale, we believe that rescue alone does not equal freedom. In order to be truly free, one must have the skills and opportunities needed to overcome the root causes of exploitation. We believe that “success” is more than just shelter or the passing of a law. Success at NFS is creating new futures. This is defined as empowering individuals economically, politically, and culturally in ways that directly prevent vulnerability to human trafficking and exploitation.

The Plain White T’s are Free2Rock

Not For Sale and the Plain White T’s are eager to kick off this month’s Free2Rock campaign in an international effort to end modern-day slavery by creating new futures for the world’s most vulnerable. The American pop band teamed up with Not For Sale to design an exclusive limited-edition Free2Rock T-shirt to end slavery, only available from today until April 6, for $24.

Historic Day for Not For Sale | From Amsterdam

Today, NFS President David Batstone and NFS Netherlands Director Toos Heemskerk took to the streets in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, delivering soup to over 50 women working behind the windows.

Today’s homemade nutritious soups, red Thai coconut curry and gourmet tomato basil, was prepared by Chef Thomas of Soup en Zo and delivered by the NFS Amsterdam team.