Freedom Summit: May 15-16th SF Bay Area

Freedom Summit from Freedom Summit on Vimeo. To learn more visit: http://freedom-summit.org/

Event: Red Light Movement April 26th, 2009

Last year was the first year of the Red Light Movement in Balboa Park, San Diego. This year it will take place at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday April 26th, 2009. Join in the 3K walk and rally to symbolize change and draw awareness toward the fight against human trafficking. For more details visit: http://www.redlightmovement.org/

ASHA Forum Consultation for North America: May 1st- 3rd at Fuller Theological Seminary

This May, Fuller Theological Seminary, part of Viva will host the second Asha Forum. Guest speakers include:

Rob Morris, Co-founder and President of Love 146

Dr. Sharon Cooper, Specialist in the hyper-sexualization of children

Lisa Thompson, Liason for the Abolition of Sexual Trafficking for The Salvation Army

Beth Grant, Director of Project Rescue.

This is a phenomenal forum designed to educate and mobilize those working on fighting child sex trafficking. I attended the forum in 2007 after taking a class at Fuller on Child Sex Trafficking. After learning more is when I jumped into working in the fight against child sexual exploitation. I highly recommend attending.

Online registration is now open at: http://www.fuller.edu/sis/asha.aspx. You can also visit the facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139047135354

Eric Proffitt: Inspiring Freedom through Music and Media

I was recently contacted by Eric and informed that on June 1st he will begin a walk in chains around some of the most densely populated countries. This reminds me of what Walter Bruggemann articulates in his book Prophetic Imagination "that grief and mourning, that crying in pathos, is the ultimate form of criticism." This act signals symbolizes the grief that is felt and hopefully through articulating that grief newness and change will come.

For more information about visit: http://www.ericproffitt.com/

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition Meeting 3.10.09

Join the coalition as we meet the second Tuesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Springfield College at 5348 University Avenue. Each meeting includes a training component and information as to the communities efforts to fight human trafficking. Hope to see you at the next meeting on Tuesday, March 10!

Read: Updated Articles!!

I just added more articles! Click on the link to the right to read more about trafficking and sexual exploitation. Thanks again to the Dignity emailings for disseminating information! I'll continue to add more this week!

Shelter: Grace Haven House for Survivors of CSEC

As many of us within the anti-trafficking movement recognize, shelter is one of our greatest needs. In San Diego we especially need shelter for victims of CSEC, commercial sexual exploitation of children. On February 13th the Today Show shared about the work of the Grace Haven House, a faith based organization that provides shelter and programs for CSEC victims that are desperately needed. Many of you might be familiar with Theresa Flores, survivor and author of The Sacred Bath, who is involved in the shelter as their director of development. To learn more about this project and their visit their website at: http://gracehavenhouse.org/

Meeting: GenerateHope 2.21.09

Everyone interested in learning more about providing shelter to trafficked and exploited women within San Diego County you are invited to join us at our February meeting to be held on Saturday, February 21, from 10AM–12PM. Please note the new location at:

Allied Gardens Library
5188 Zion Ave, San Diego 92120

Exit HWY 8 at Waring Road & turn left on Zion, the library will be immediately on your right. When you enter the library you will find the the meeting room immediately on your right. As there is little parking available directly in front of the library it would be nice if we could consider the library patrons & park on the street or behind the library. We hope to see you there! For more information visit: www.generatehope.org

Meeting: North County Anti-Trafficking Meeting 2.26.09

Please click on the flyer for more information.

Watch: CSI: New York Sex Trafficking Episode Airs 2.11.09

Last night during the Grammy's I caught a blurb for a CSI:New York episode on Sex Trafficking. Watch and learn more about what is happening within our own country. I have yet to view the episode so warning for potentially graphic material.

Urgent Action: Obama's Pick for U.S. Deputy Attorney General Has Strong Ties to Pornography (among other things...)

I received this through the DIGNITY mailings. Please call and let the Obama campaign hear our voices.

"Call the Senate Judiciary Committee offices tomorrow (since the vote occurs on Thursday), and try to bombard the offices with callers, to let the Judiciary Committee know that we do not want someone in this position who has represented Playboy, Penthouse, and who has fought library porn filters. If you are able to send to your members, or send any action alerts for action tomorrow, Senate Judiciary Committee phone numbers are below. Ogden will be #2 at the DOJ, unless we can get citizens to voice their opposition to his nomination. Someone is needed who will protect families, not pornographers." -Tiffany Helfrich, Founder, Girls Against Porn

Morality In Media President Robert Peters had the following comments:
Nominating David Ogden for such a high position in the Justice Department raises questions about whether the new President means business about curbing sexual trafficking in women and children and other sexual exploitation of children and about standing up for policies that value families.

Senate Judiciary Committee Majority & Minority Offices: 202-224-7703 & 202-224-5225

Read Articles:

Ogden’s opposition to Sen. McCain’s Children’s Internet Protection Act, which protect kids from pornography at public libraries and schools
http://www.scribd.com/full/11607068?access_key=key-18yr2u50t8o0sz54rbrl

Fidelis: Obama Picks Porn Lawyer for #2 at Justice
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090203/pl_usnw/fidelis__obama_picks_porn_lawyer_for2_at_justice

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nominee Has Adult Ties
http://www.xbiz.com/news/legal/104372

Full Report: http://www.fidelis.org

Conference: 3.6.09-3.7.09 Gender and Justice Conference at Vanguard University, Orange County

Register now for the upcoming Gender and Justice Conference March 6-7, 2009 at Vanguard University. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more and connect with the network of professionals working on the topic of human trafficking and gender issues.

San Diego Human Trafficking Awareness Event on YouTube

You can visit the site at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_CFVfTjNIs

Conference: 2.20.09-2.21.09, Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking" at UC Berkeley

SAVE THE DATE!!!
Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking
February 20-21, 2009 Berkeley, California
Brought to you by The Center for Race & Gender (UC Berkeley), Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery (Northern CA), and The End Internet Trafficking Coalition (USA)

As the internet has become more and more a part of the everyday in the U.S. and the global north, questions have arisen: How has the internet used as a tool for violence, for the trafficking and sexual exploitation of people? How has it used as a tool for social change to counter violence? In 2008 the End Internet Trafficking Coalition formed to address the increasing usages of services on the web to exploit people through labor and sex violence. In an effort to further the conversations that began with a national call through emails to collaborate, the coalition recorded an online presentation on the issue. February 20-21, 2009, in a conference meeting titled, "Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking" the coalition and collaborators will be meeting at UC Berkeley to address the complexities of human trafficking and the technoscapes of the web, as well as the prospects for countering human trafficking through theory and practice.

For more information visit: http://www.eitcoalition.org/home.htm

Event: 1.21.09 New Jersey Statewide Trafficking Task Force Meeting

Conference: 10.29.09 First Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proud to host the First Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, October 29-31, 2009 in Lincoln, Nebraska. This conference is made possible through the interdisciplinary collaboration of the College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Journalism, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and the Department of Academic Conferences.

This conference will bring together: other researchers nationally and internationally, engaged in anti-trafficking effort, people who are "on the ground" in combating human trafficking, people who see the effects of trafficking on their work, scholars with an interest in providing knowledge and methodologies to study the problems surrounding human trafficking, government agencies and others who fund anti-trafficking efforts, people who will fund knowledge-creation, evaluation, and methodology-creation work. Register or get more information at: http://conferences.unl.edu/trafficking/
Contact us:
Registration questions: (402) 472-2423
Conference content questions: (402) 472-5733

Photos from San Diego: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Thank you to everyone who worked hard to make San Diego's 2nd Annual National Human Trafficking Awareness Day a success!