No More Slavery | empowering you to act

On this page you will find Information about how you can become involved, which organizations have specific needs and links to those sites. At the bottom of the page is a list of What You Can Do from least involvement to the most involvement.

Easy

On the web

• Become friends with abolition organizations on myspace or Facebook
• Join the “No More Slavery (Connecticut)” group on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23049106064)
• Subscribe to e-mail updates from an abolitionist organization
• Put a link to an abolitionist organization on your personal e-mail
• Add a banner from an abolitionist organization to your email signature
• Add the link to an abolitionist organization to your favorite website links or business blog

Learn

• Become friends with abolition organizations on myspace or Facebook
• Join the “No More Slavery

Donate

• Donate $25 to an abolitionist organization
• Free the Slaves-How You Can Help
• Love 146-Get Involved
• Paul and Lisa Program Wishlist
• Polaris Project-Ways to Take Action
• World Vision-Ways to Give

Events

• Host a dinner to raise awareness
• Show a documentary or film about child sex slavery in your town to raise awareness

Express yourself

• Wear a t-shirt from an abolitionist organization

Organize

• Download the Love146.org poster image, copy fliers, and post them all over your school

Political Action

• Call your congressman/woman and encourage him/her to support the Trafficking Victims Protection Act reauthorization

Shopping

Buy gifts handmade by former slaves:

• www.freetheslaves.net
• NightLight- beautiful jewelry made by former prostitutes/slaves in Thailand
• Made by Survivors- a variety of goods including bags, cloth goods, jewelry, paper products
• Shop in Light-a variety of goods including bags, cloth goods, jewelry, paper products
• Not For Sale Freedom Store- a variety of goods including books, clothing, music/video, jewelry, soccer balls!

Moderate

On the web

• Email abolitionist newsletters to friends, family and coworkers with a personal note
• Investigate publications and websites that could be used by traffickers to advertise trafficking victims

Donate

• Donate $50 to an abolitionist organization
• Free the Slaves-How You Can Help
• Love 146-Get Involved
• Paul and Lisa Program Wishlist
• Polaris Project-Ways to Take Action
• World Vision-Ways to Give

Events

• Host a dinner to raise awareness
• Set up info tables at summer festivals
• ‘Fasting for Freedom’ : Organize 24-hour fast — the moneythat would normally go to purchasing food can go to fighting child sex trafficking
• Organize a house party event in your region to raise awareness
• Have your youth group at your local place of worship sponsor an event that will raise awareness of child sex slavery
• Organize a benefit dinner with a speaker from an abolitionist organization. Ask a local restaurant to donate food forthe event.
• Organize tournaments/games, benefit concerts, art auction/exhibition
• Organize a game with raffle. Donate the proceeds toan abolitionist organization
• Have people financiallysponsor you to ‘give up’ something, such as drinking soda, candy orwatchingTV and donate the money to an abolitionist organization
• Help start a walk-a-thon in your city to raise money for one of the highlighted organizations
• Help organize a competitive sport tournament to raise awareness about child sex slavery
• Start a child sex slavery awareness day on your college campus

Express yourself

• Get all your friends to write your local paper and encourage them to cover the events around the issue of human trafficking
• Write an article for your school paper about the issue of human trafficking
• Use sidewalk chalk to write statistics about child sex slavery in approved areas

Organize

• Start a student group at your high school that focuses on bringing awareness of the human trafficking to your peers and local community
• Ask a local bookstore or coffee shop to put posters from an abolition organization in their window

Political Action

• Write a letter to your city mayor asking him/her to involve your city in the fight to end child sex slavery
• Write a letter to your senator asking him/her to support stronger enforcement of the US anti-trafficking law
• Write your congressman/woman and encourage him/her to fight for more money to go towards ending child sex slavery
• Write your congressman to raise awareness for child sex slavery

Shopping

• Boycott industries/companies where slavery is documented:
• No Dirty Gold campaign (www.nodirtygold.org)
• Chocolate (www.freetheslaves.net)

Most intensive

• Start a local community group that works to bring awareness of child sex slavery in your city
• Organize a local human trafficking taskforce in your city to raise awareness
• Make fighting child sex slavery a career
• Call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center 1.888.3737.888 if you are or know a trafficking victim
• Become a monthly financial partner of one of the highlighted organizations
• Intern with an abolitionist organization

Come back soon for more! (5/9/2008 )