- for all of us who are free, it's our obligation to do something. if we do nothing, nothing will happen
- free your mind and your a__ will follow
- open source activism
- 2m kids are sold into sex slavery each year
- music is the only thing that can enter a person's heart and mind without permission
- most of us are in between a state of obliviousness and a paralysis of depair.
- the cost to set someone free is approximately how much Americans spend on Valentine's day
- I don't want to wear someone's despair
- a slave worker in India, when asked how he keeps going despite the torture and conditions said that he takes pride in making something beautiful...
- slavery is about economics. it's not about people trying to be mean to each other.
- in 1787, a group of men chose to get around a table and said to end the British slave trade. that's like saying in today's terms that we would end the global automotive industry
- we need a 21st century abolitionist movement
- justice is what love looks like in public
Monday, November 9, 2009
CALL+RESPONSE: What's your response?
Another event I attended...actually twice because it was SO powerful and I wanted to bring friends. CALL+RESPONSE, a "rock"umentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. www.callandresponse.com for more information. Wanted to share some notes I captured from that event as well:
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