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My Words as Weapons: A Reminder

My hand from last year's Shine a Light on Slavery Day

My hand from last year’s Shine a Light on Slavery Day

Tomorrow is the day to join the End It Movement and place a red X on your hand to help create awareness for human trafficking, which is actually modern day slavery.  I don’t have much that is new to say on the subject right now. Actually, just the other day a gentleman from church was talking to me about my blog (I had forgotten that the blog address is part of my email signature and I had sent out an email in regard to an event the church was taking part it and he had linked to it from there) and mentioned that he especially found my posts on human trafficking to be interesting.

This is awesome because it means I’m doing something right!

So I thought back to some of the posts I have made on the subject and I decided perhaps it was time to collect them into one pace and share it in time for Shine a Light on Slavery Day.  If you find any of these to be informative, interesting, or just heartbreaking or maddening enough to want to help, wear a red X on your hand tomorrow and share my post(s).

Awareness is a start.

Here are some of my past human trafficking posts:

To Love… (the fundraiser has long since ended, but the other content still applies)

Let Freedom Ring!

Human Beings are NOT Commodities

Hope Lies in Creating Ripples

All Men are Created Equal…All

Anyone Can Make a Change

Stop it BEFORE it Happens

Stand in the Gap and Fight Injustice

Righteous Anger

How Words Shape our Perspectives

Armed for Battle

The Unnerving Rising Number

Creepy American Tourists

Joining the Fight with Others

Super Bowl Trafficking

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Let’s Shine a Light on Slavery

Join the End It Movement on February 27 (next Thursday) to help “shine a light on slavery.”  You can do this by marking a large red X on your hand.

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Why?  What is a red X going to do besides make it look like you forgot to wash your hands really well after you went out to the club?

The red X alone cannot end slavery.  If it could, I’d buy stock in red Sharpies and do it every day; however, if you’re out and about the red X may induce curiosity in others, who will then ask you why you’re sporting a red X, and then you can inform them that slavery didn’t actually end with the Emancipation Proclamation and that it does, in fact, still exist all over the world, including our own “free country,” the United States.  And then, BOOM, you’ve helped create awareness.  Changes cannot be made if nobody knows this exists, but if everybody knows, an outrage will spread and changes WILL be made through the stirring of our hearts to this injustice.  With awareness, a movement of action will spread.

There are ten great organizations joined in this coalition and all are committed to creating awareness, ending slavery, and/or rehabilitating those who are rescued out of human trafficking.  You can and should check them all out here.

Once you read this, please spread the word.  Share this post; share the website; wear your red X next Thursday; get involved any way you can.  Over 27,000,000 imprisoned people’s voices can be heard if you help.

http://enditmovement.com/#featured_video

My Words as Weapons: Joining the Fight with Others

This video has gotten me all excited about the End It Movement this year.  Let’s all join together and fight together to free the 27 million people who are enslaved at this exact moment.

It seems such a daunting task to take this on alone, but we’re not alone if we work together.  27 million seems like an impossible number to free, but we just have to start with one.  Don’t not do something because you don’t think you can make a difference.

“Be the difference you want to see.” -Gandhi

Share this video because there’s no doubt this vile practice still exists and YOU can help. Ignite a fire for change.

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Shine a Light on Slavery. Let’s be in it to END IT.