Stop The Traffik Global Freedom Summit, London, UK

 STOP THE TRAFFIK invites YOU to the first
GLOBAL FREEDOM SUMMIT, April 11th 2011

Next year, people from across the world will descend on London, as it hosts the 2012 Olympics

Meet two of them:

He’s a world-class sprinter.
She’s a normal young girl.

He’s lured by the promise of a gold medal.
She’s lured by the promise of a better education.

His trainer smiles and whispers to him “trust me, you’re the best”.
Her trafficker smiles and whispers to her “trust me, it’s in your best interests”.

His entourage take his bags off him.
Her trafficker takes her passport and documents.

He arrives at the hotel, his national anthem running through his head.
She arrives at the hotel, her trafficker’s threats running through her head.

He will be heading to the arena to face his destiny.
She will be heading to the brothel to face hers.

How his story ends? It’s up to him.
How her story ends? It’s up to us.

 

It’s up to the staff in that hotel to notice her.
It’s up to the guests in that hotel to realise something is wrong.
It’s up to her community at home to understand she may be in a vulnerable situation.
It’s up to every one of us to ensure that it is impossible for traffickers to hide themselves and their victims in our communities.

Communities in every corner of the world offer hospitality to those on a journey; a room, a bed, a warm welcome. But we want to know that that there is no room for trafficking.

The STOP THE TRAFFIK Global Freedom Summit will ... 

• assert people's right to travel safely
• create a hospitality industry that is alert to the issue and allows no room for trafficking
• empower communities to send out their own Global Travel Alert

Join Cherie Blair, UN representatives, community activists and global leaders

Date: Monday 11th April 2011
Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue: Oasis Academy Enfield, 9 Kinetic Crescent, Innova Park,
Mollison Avenue, Enfield, London EN3 7XH
Registration cost: £5 per person.  ACT groups and schools can apply for sponsored places.

How to register: simply email info@stopthetraffik.org with details of
the number of places you'd like to book

Enquiries: info@stopthetraffik.org

75 Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7HS
+44 (0)20 7921 4258 

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales No.6657145 and a Registered Charity No. 1127321

Taking AIM Against Human Trafficking!

As you may have heard we are offering support to another international campaign called Anti-Slavery International. This is because one of the key issues The AIM will be tackling in the long term is human trafficking and modern day slavery whether that be sexual, domestic, agricultural or otherwise. This is a crucial issue and is close to the hearts of various AIM members. Despite what they told you slavery is alive and well in various forms all across the globe. We want to combat it on an international, national and local level because abolishing human trafficking and modern day slaveryit is central in the struggle for human rights.

New York East Coast AIM General, activist and political emcee SAI works on the frontlines combatting human trafficking and slavery. Thus he has released this new track, One Day in June, to mark the genesis of our determined effort to enable modern day slaves to liberate themselves from the shackles of their oppressors. He tackles two very real but different cases, both in relation to child trafficking in order to expose the harsh reality of the sexual and domestic exploitation of children. AIM President and vitriolic Street Poet AK47 has also added a another very personal and raw poem about her experience of being forced into prostitution as a young teenager to her Street Poetry profile page. This is to bring attention to the brutal reality of the sexual exploitation of young girls through forced prostitution which is often a result of human trafficking. Her brave and brutal poem is available here and it will hopefully encourage you to join the fight against modern day slavery.

When you're done with that, please visit http://www.flsny.org/ and tell your friends and family about the difficult work that Farmworker Legal Services is doing in the State of New York. They are fighting for the rights of farmworkers as well as low wage workers and they need your support. If you can make a donation to FLSNY, please do so because every penny counts.

" The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression."
(Albert Camus)

Anti-Slavery Day

Dear Anti-Slavery supporter FIGHT FOR FREEDOM ON ANTI-SLAVERY DAY, 18 OCTOBER - 3 WAYS TO MAKE A CHANGE Monday 18 October 2010 will mark the first Anti-Slavery Day in the UK. It is a sad reality that over 200 years since the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Britain, slavery is still with us and millions of people around the world, including in the UK, are denied their basic freedom and dignity. PLEASE help us mark this day by reviving the abolitionist spirit and joining with Anti-Slavery supporters everywhere to take a stand against slavery and call for an end to it NOW! 3 ways to make a change…….. 1. LEARN at www.productsofslavery.orgTo mark Anti-Slavery Day, we are launching a brand new interactive website about slavery and the products we buy at www.productsofslavery.org to help you, as consumers, understand the scale of slavery in the global markets and how you can take action to end slave labour. 2. TAKE ACTION by signing our anti-trafficking petitionPlease use Anti-Slavery Day to call on David Cameron to commit to tackling trafficking in the UK by signing up to a new EU law to help protect victims of trafficking across Europe. The UK cannot afford to miss such a vital opportunity to combat trafficking - SIGN THE PETITION HERE 3. DONATE just one day's payOn Anti-Slavery Day please consider donating your day's pay which will go a long way in helping those trapped in slavery - DONATE HERE Please pass this email onto 10 friends and spread the word about Anti-Slavery Day! Thank you for your support Gemma Wolfes Campaigns & Outreach Officer g.wolfes@antislavery.org Connect with us on

Channel 4's 'Slavery Season' (UK Only)

This has been received via an email from antislavery.org and I wanted to share it with you all. I believe that all the programmes will also be available online at channel 4 on demand.

Dear Anti-Slavery supporter, A week of special programming starting Monday 30 August on Channel 4 (UK only) uncovers the dark reality of slavery in Britain today. Dispatches: Britain's Secret Slaves - Monday 30 August, 7.30pmA special documentary investigating the plight of overseas domestic workers in Britain who are kept locked up by their employers and subjected to sexual, physical and psychological abuse. I am Slave - Monday 30 August, 8.30pmWritten and produced by the team who made The Last King of Scotland and inspired by real-life events, I Am Slave is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery in London. A powerful story of imprisonment, cruelty and despair, but also one of hope and humanity, starring Wunmi Mosaku. Hunt for Britain 's Sex Traffickers - starts Tuesday 31 August, 9.00pmThe story of the biggest UK police operation against sex trafficking, following the investigation and eventual sentencing of some of Britain 's most serious sex traffickers. In three parts from Tuesday 31 August to Thursday 2 September. We hope the upcoming programmes inspire you to get involved as we need your help now more then ever to END SLAVERY TODAY. To take action against slavery, please add your voice at www.antislavery.org/campaigns/ Thank you for your ongoing support, Gemma Wolfes Campaigns & Outreach Officer g.wolfes@antislavery.org If you would like to make a donation to support Anti-Slavery International's work please click here

SAI

Bio

SAI (South American Immigrant) was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1973, lived in Brooklyn during his teenage years, and attended Randolph High School in Harlem. He obtained a B.A. in Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton. He has worked as a community relations coordinator at Barnes & Noble. For the many years he has been involved in the struggle for justice for farm workers with Farmworker Legal Services of NY, specifically under the human trafficking project. He has been on the frontlines of saving modern day slaves from modern day slaveowners. Moreover he has highligted the way in which human trafficking is an issue of grave importance in a world where people think slavery no longer exists. He has done this as an activist, an emcee/musician and also as a poet because he is a man who knows how to utilize his many talents to benefit the greater good.

SAI has performed his latin style hip-hop at local venues since 2004 and he is the music and lyrical composer/producer of more than 200 hip hop/spoken word songs, featuring various artists in the Rochester community (Including Henry Padrón & Jahaka Mindstorm).

Renan is fluent in French, English, and Spanish and spits lyrical fire in all three languages. He has worked with a myriad of producers and emcees from every continent and appears as a featured emcee in many albums. He has performed in endless amounts of open mic's in NY, LA, DC, Ecuador, and Canada. He recently performed in the Art of Lyrics underground event at The Point in The Bronx, NY., an invitation-only gathering of emcees in New York City. He also belongs to the 4th Sight, as well as to La Gran Colombia which was formed by SAI to represent Ecuador, Dante Vital representing Colombia, and El Veneco (representing Venezuela). He will be working on a collaborative album with all of these collectives by next year and it will be entirely in Spanish. He is also a fully fledged member of The Anti-Injustice Movement (aka The AIM) and has recorded a brand new track entitled 'Taking AIM' for the collective's new mixtape Lyrical Warfare Vol 1.

He published a book of poems in 1996 entitled Until I Meet Myself Again, I Write and therefore he will be an asset to the rapidly expanding Anti-Injustice Movement not only as an emcee and activist but also as a protest poet. The rhyming revolitionary freedom fighter, aka Ecuador's answer to Che Guevara, SAI will be a core figure in the up and coming genre of 'raptivism.'

Videos

Music

Discography
Socio-Politics (2009)
Lyrical Warfare Volume One (2010)
Stay Awake (2011)

Lyrics
Coming Soon!

Division
AIM East Coast General (New York)

Contact Details
SAI on MySpace
SAI on Reverbnation