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Take Action Now: Call Your Senator to Help Survivors
The legislative calendar is in its final weeks. If Congress doesn’t pass the TVPA, programs that help survivors reclaim their lives will lose valuable resources and funding. 31 Senators have signed on as co-sponsors.
However, we need YOUR help in ensuring the legislation is passed!
Take Action on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
We need your help in insuring that the legislation is passed. Please call your Senator today and ask him or her to sign on as a co-sponsor of the bill.
To do this call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Senator.
California Supply Chain- Talking Points
Sample Call in script: Hello my name is (your name). I currently reside in (your city). I’d like to speak with someone about Senate Bill 657 which will be up for vote again in the Senate. [You will either be directed to a staff person, or will continue with the person answering the phone.] I [...]
New Bill to Ban Forced Labor Introduced
Congratulations to Max Baucus (D) and Charles Grassley (R) for sponsoring a U.S. Customs bill that bans the import of all goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or forced or indentured child labor. The bill requires that a newly created office in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) annually report to Congress… on the [...]
NFS Supports Legislation that Helps Prevent Trafficking in San Francisco!
Campaign President David Batstone spoke in support of needed legislation increasing regulation and supporting city efforts to prevent trafficking from occurring into the massage industry in San Francisco.
San Francisco Defeats Proposition K
We at Not For Sale would like to take this opportunity to thank the voters of San Francisco for taking an analytical look at Proposition K and realizing the dangerous implications it contained for victims of trafficking. As an organization Not for Sale, along with the “No On K” Coalition, actively worked to defeat this Proposition and on November 4th San Franciscans came out and voiced their opposition to K.
