Not For Sale

What it is ::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.

How did this thing start? -From Founder David Batstone:
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.

Earn $3 for our anti-slavery operations simply for voting on good music. It costs you nothing and you won’t get spammed. Three bucks, that’s the price of a trafficked child on the border of Thailand and Laos. Read More

Enlighten your congressional representatives. Not for Sale works in coalition with nine of the world’s leading abolitionist organizations. The Action Group’s aim is to shape government policy and laws by giving voice to service providers who work daily with trafficking survivors. Visit The Action Group website to see what Congress is working on to combat global slavery and see what you can do to make your voice heard.

Run a Freedom Store for one hour a week at your faith community, your school, your workplace. We supply you with products made by emancipated slaves or communities vulnerable to trafficking. Shopping can give dignity or it can deliver misery. We supply the inventory, you ring up the cash register.

To open a Freedom Store, email us here

Take part in an immersion trip to Thailand, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua or Peru in 2008. Our journeys are designed to equip you to be a global abolitionist.

If you’d like to go as an individual, or organize a group trip, email us here

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