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NOT FOR SALE: I Am Not For Sale, You Are Not For Sale, No One Should Be For Sale - Become An Abolitionist

NOT FOR SALE: I Am Not For Sale, You Are Not For Sale, No One Should Be For Sale - Become An Abolitionist

Video: Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Human Trafficking (CBS News) 11 Minutes 36 Seconds - David Batstone, author of "Not For Sale," tells Hannah Storm that slavery is a problem that persists in the United States today, largely due to human trafficking. (CBSNews.com)

NOT FOR SALE' The following is a tremendous indictment of human greed and cruelty. According to the Not for Sale website: "It is estimated that more than 27 million people are trafficked or enslaved in an industry worth almost $US31 billion. It is growing so fast it is third in size to the black market for drugs and arms. In our globalised world we can no longer think of slavery as something that happens "over there". In fact every time you go to the supermarket you are potentially fuelling this boom in human trafficking and slavery – in which the greatest victims are children. If you eat chocolate or drive a well-known brand of car with tyres from one of the bigger-name companies, chances are these products have raw ingredients linked to human slavery, exploitation and trafficking." - Victor Zammit

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NOT FOR SALE: WHO ARE WE

Backyard Abolitionists – you – Drive The Not For Sale Campaign

Open Source Activism

The major obstacle that we face in the fight against modern day slavery is that the crime is hidden. Individuals that work in the field know that slavery is not part of the current collective consciousness. Initially, it shocks the general public to learn that slavery still exists and is wide spread. It is even more shocking for them to realize that it may exist in their own backyards.

We need to shift to a paradigm that recognizes the possibility of slavery in order to be able to identify it. When the paradigm shifts, a new wave of activists will respond in creative ways. That being the case, the pioneer generation of activists against human trafficking must re-evaluate how we communicate the issue to our networks.

Communication with young people brings to light that the new abolitionists can be very sophisticated. Youths are using their own expertise in creative ways to raise awareness and fight slavery, which in turn inspires their peers to do the same. Their initiatives tend to be organic to their peers’ passion, skills, and purpose in life.

For example, Pattie, an artist who lives in Atlanta, GA, recently hosted a house party to inform her friends about modern-day slavery. She showed a movie, served wine and cheese, produced a painting for the party, and delivered a power point presentation featuring her city’s Modern-day slavery statistics. She even had the guests paint their hands on her wall, declaring that they are now involved, identifying with those whose identities have been stolen.

‘Orange’ awareness events, soccer tournaments, class presentations, mapping slavery projects, benefit concerts, video productions, are among the activities that colleges, high schools, companies, churches, artists, and individuals organize to shift the paradigm that slavery does not exist toward a paradigm of awareness.

We cannot act solo if we want to make an impact; to be part of a network of activists generates social power. The pioneer generation needs to enable people’s natural connection toward collaboration, exchanging ideas, learning from one another, and learning to trust one another in new and different ways.

The greatest of challenges demand the boldest and most creative initiatives. Ending slavery in our lifetime depends on open source activism. We cannot control it, only enable it. Our own inputs and energies transform the path of the campaign. We can’t predict the path that we are going to follow, but because modern-day slavery is touching the deepest places of conscience, we are uniting to end it.

A new generation of abolitionists has been seeded.

Around the world people have taken notice: the breath of freedom is uniting people. No longer can we stand by as 27 million people are enslaved.

It is no longer enough to think about change.
It is no longer enough to talk about change.
It is time to shift gears; marrying movement with intelligent action.

Our collective challenge is simple, stand with those who are enslaved, work together to free them, and empower them in their freedom to break the cycle of vulnerability.

What we are combating is wide-ranging, deeply embedded, and largely invisible (how else could it exist in our own backyards?). A holistic, all-encompassing response is in order. Igniting and aiding this comprehensive response is the Not For Sale Campaign’s purpose.

The Not For Sale Campaign bridges knowledge to action.

With your help, we are working to raise awareness and collective understanding about human trafficking. But we live in a time and place where people are restless “to do something”. In recognition of this desire to act we will be completing and distributing handbooks for action. What can your athletics team do? What can your university do? What can your community of faith do? What can your business do? What can you do as a musician?

In 2008 and beyond we will be providing new ideas and proven constructs for action.

Without a doubt, the wall standing against slavery today consists of backyard abolitionists, people like yourself, who are willing to build the bridge to freedom.

Welcome to the movement.
From David Batstone: how did this thing start?

I read in a local paper that one of my favorite Indian restaurants in the Bay Area had been trafficking women from India to wash dishes, cook meals and other tasks. The story came out when a young woman, Chianti Pratipatta died of a gas leak in an unventilated apartment owned by the proprietor of the restaurant, who forced Chianti and others into slavery under threat of reporting their illegal presence to the authorities.

This was happening in my country at a restaurant I frequented. My shock turned into a consuming passion that took me around the world to learn more about how slavery flourishes in the shadows.

I also learned about the solutions. I met heroes. Modern-day abolitionists fighting trafficking and slavery on the front lines. And I knew I had to do something. The Not for Sale Campaign combines technology, intellectual capital, abolitionist groups and a growing network of individuals like yourself – joined together to end slavery in our lifetime.

Welcome to the movement.

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-David Batstone, President

-Enrique Bazan, Executive Director

-Mark Wexler, Managing Director

REPORTS

‘Not for Sale Fund’ is a California Non-Profit Corporation organized in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 501( c)(3). Not For Sale Campaign is a program of ‘Not for Sale Fund’

501c3 Application
IRS Approval Letter
Articles of Incorporation – Name Change
Trademark Application

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HEADQUARTERS

THE INSTIGATOR, DAVID BATSTONE
A Professor of ethics at the University of San Francisco who started his "career" guarding Salvadoran pastors and literacy teachers from death squads. Batsone was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and is the founder of social venture firm, Right Reality. He writes regularly in USA Weekend edition as "America's Ethics Guru." He traveled around the world investigating the Slave Trade before writing "Not For Sale", the book associated with this campaign.

THE CONDUCTOR, ENRIQUE BAZAN
A longtime advocate for justice, Enrique's first job was working with a children's rights organization in Peru, and later doing research with gangs in El Salvador and San Francisco. He has organized social justice trips around the world and has been at the forefront of developing groundbreaking strategies that unite businesses, non-profits and communities for the common good. He's also a partner in Right Reality.

THE PRODUCER, MARK WEXLER
Mark started his "job track" with South Africa's Umthombo Street Children working to empower former street kids to take a leading role in structural change. He honed his entrepreneurial skills by growing organizational connections across Europe and Africa. In addition to serving as Not for Sale Campaign's managing director he is also the director of the campaign's faith-based platform.

THE ADVOCATE, JEREMY HOWELL
Chair of the Exercise and Sport Science Department at University of San Francisco and directs the giving program of Western Athletic Clubs. He allocates over $2.5 million a year to groups that focus on preventing disease and enabling healthy exercise. Jeremy is the driving force behind Not For Sale's Free To Play program.

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