BUYING SEX IS NOT A SPORT | panel coming to Toronto jan 2010

BUYING SEX IS NOT A SPORT

panel coming to Toronto

STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING

As our nation is getting excited about the Olympic Games approaching in February 2010, many people are grieving the horrors that will take place during the 2010 Games. Large sporting events attract human traffickers, as they know there will be great opportunities to make huge money from (mainly) men who buy sex.

I have been contracted to organize a panel discussion that will address how buying sex supports human trafficking, and the reality of what takes places to prostituted women and children. I want to personally invite you to come to one of the panels, this is a HUGE injustice in our world, and it is time that we become aware of, as Artist and Director Justin Dillon states, the "world's 27 million darkest secrets."

Human Trafficking is the fastest growing crime on the planet today, and our nation, Canada needs to be a leader and an example to the world to join the movement to STOP Human Trafficking and the exploitation of people around the world.

This is not a Christian issue, a Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Agnostic, or Atheist issue, it is not a black or white issue, nor is it a conservative or liberal, Canadian or Indian issue, this is not just a male or female issue...this is GLOBAL HUMAN ISSUE, and if you happen to fall in that category, it should demand your attention; but further it should compel our hearts, minds and souls to learn more and take action against this injustice. I urge you to come to the panel January 30th and/or February 1st at 8pm.

As a nation, it is my heart to see Canadians take a firm stance to tell the world that Canada will not tolerate the sexual exploitation against women and children.

*There are 27 million people in slavery today,

more than double the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

*70% of people trafficked are for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

*80% are women and children.

I believe that the abolition of slavery can end within 25 years, but it will require millions of voices to unite together on this issue.

I invite you to come to hear why we need your voice!

sat.jan 30.8pm walmer road baptist church

188 lowther avenue | toronto

mon.feb 01.8pm university of toronto

health sciences building

155 college street | 6th floor | room 610 | toronto

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Buying Sex Is Not a Sport is a grassroots campaign to raise awareness and effect change around sex trafficking and the 2010 Olympic games. The demand for sexual access to the bodies of women and children fuels human trafficking. Women and children in Metro Vancouver and Whistler are routinely coerced into the flesh trade to meet this demand, and a large sporting event such as the 2010 Olympics will only further exploitation through a rise in the demand for paid sex. Demand is an issue we have already flagged in Canada and have been working against for years.

The very workings of human trafficking are a market-based model of supply and demand. There is an uncontrolled male demand for sexual access to the bodies of women (and children) and the supply for this demand is met through violating the dignity of women. It is our conviction that in order to stem the tide of human trafficking we must end the demand for paid sex. Demand flourishes in an atmosphere of anonymity.

This campaign will spread the message broadly through community-based public forums, postering campaigns, t-shirts, buttons and your creative ideas.

amnesty international human rights with MORGAN FREEMAN

Use your words to change the world......be inspired and take part in the movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tCtvmAm4M&feature=player_embedded

my photographs are up in Oakville: "a taste of india" exhibit

My photographs are up in Oakville!!!

"a taste of india" exhibit

Hope you can make it out November 5th!

It's going to be a great night, a chance for you to hear "The Heart Behind My Art."

Evelyn is a girl who is bringing in work from Kenya, and she will also be there to share what is happening in Kenya through Kuku Hut.

Thursday November 5th

Isabella's Pasta Cafe 174 Lakeshore Road E. (in downtown Oakville)

Open House 7-9pm

*7:45pm "The Heart Behind The Art" Quarter

(Evelyn and I will briefly speak about why we do the work we do)

Hope you guys can come!

Stay for 10 minutes or for 1 hours!

bridgingthe_gap photography exhibit in oakville oct 1-nov 15/09

EXHIBITING @ Isabella's Pasta Cafe
174 Lakeshore Road E OAKVILLE
oct 1- nov 15/09

This collection, "a taste of india," is from a trip I was apart of with Westside Church in Vancouver in 2007. We had a team of twelve people who went to serve for two weeks on a prayer and awareness project throughout India. This was a very exciting time within the ministry of Westside Church as the church was still young and was in the beginning stages of establishing our global service projects, in this case India. While in India we spent much of our time in the city of New Delhi and in the northern Punjab region. Since this trip was the beginning of Westside's service efforts in India, our hope was to accomplish the following three goals:

1. Open our eyes geographically and spiritually to the landscape of the nation.
2. Seek God's heart and vision for us as a church as we look ahead to future service and partnerships in India.
3. Practically get our hands dirty and serve within the culture through various projects such as: Dar-ul-Fazl Children's Home (Orphanage) in Manali, Shanti Niketan Children's Home in Sabathu (Orphanage) and the Sughandh Slum Project in Delhi.

Returning from India, Westside Church in Vancouver and Willow Park Church in Kewlowa partnered together to take over the Shanti Niketan Children's Home in Sabathu, forming Child of Mine. As of October 2008, Child of Mine assumes the responsibility and care for the economic needs of the homes, and our desire is to holistically partner with their God-given vision to equip and prepare these children to serve God in North India. Child of Mine is committed to building effective partnerships with such organizations in order to help these children fulfill their calling.

*For each photograph sold, a portion will be given to Child of Mine to continue to see children in Northern India cared and provided for. To learn more about Child of Mine, please feel free to pick up a pamphlet at Isabella's Pasta Cafe or email me at shae.betheANSWER@gmail.com

**There is going to be a coffee house / meet and greet night with the artist Thursday, November 5th-stay tuned for more details!

THANK YOU for your support!! The walk to STOP Child Trafficking was a great day; the turn out was a little smaller than I would have liked, but for the first walk in Toronto, it was better than nothing!

Next years walk will be GRANDE!

I knew that there was a greater purpose and reason for me not running my marathon--and on this walk I found the reason. Sophia, the girl who was organizing the walk asked me to orchestrate the walk to STOP Child Trafficking with her next year...AND...I have been wanting to get in touch with an organization called "Me to We" for years, and Sophia works with them!! This connection is priceless!!

The walk was great! We raised awareness in Toronto and even got to speak to some people about the issue of Human Trafficking after our walk with people who saw us walking around Toronto.

Awareness is the first step to change-exposing the issue of injustice.

Thank you again for your support!

*Donations are still being accepted until December 31, 2009. If you know anyone you think would like to support the end of Child Trafficking, please feel free to forward them this email or the one prior that I sent out.

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

~ Bishop Desmond Tutu

to see change furthered in this generation,

shae invidiata

betheANSWER

CALL+RESPONSE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED TO TORONTO!!!!!!

For those of you who do not know, Call+Response is probably one of the most amazing organizations out there today who are advocates of justice for humans in modern day slavery = human trafficking

I have been emailing Call+Response for over a year, telling them that they need to come to Canada. And they are finally here!!!
This film has gotten unreal reviews and responds (which you can check out on their website). Even if you cannot come this weekend, you should at least check out the trailers on the m.u.c.k website (Movies of UN-Common Knowledge)--the trailers are a great way to get a little nugget of knowledge on different issue of injustice around our world.

the first step to change is becoming aware-becoming educated!

....and then become a voice

....respond!

They are the first feature documentary film to be produced!

Please check out their site and what they are all about:

http://www.callandresponse.com

COME SEE THE FILM!

This Sunday October 4th @12am

the last film to end the m.u.c.k film festival

http://www.muckfilmfestival.com/#

this is the call+ your the response

call+response

"Justice is what love looks like in public" -call+response

Where do you stand on life?!....40 DAYS FOR LIFE HAS BEGUN!!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE

Record-breaking fall campaign coming to 212 locations

Get ready for the largest, most widespread coordinated pro-life outreach ever! More than 200 cities in 45 American states, 5 Canadian provinces ... plus Denmark ... are poised to launch 40 Days for Life campaigns.

"There will be campaigns in at least 212 communites," said David Bereit, 40 Days for Life's national director. "Last fall's campaign was conducted in 177 cities. This shows that support for the pro-life message is spreading — and that 40 Days for Life continues to have a positive international impact."

The list of fall locations is now available. Please check it, see if your city is listed, and click on the city's link for additional information about your local 40 Days for Life campaign.

Facebook member? Check out the official 40 Days for Life group.

http://40daysforlife.com/splash.cfm

FROM THE BLOG:

The Day 1 devotional begins with the words of Scripture, “Blow the trumpet in Zion!” Well, the trumpet has sounded and the fall 40 Days for Life campaign has officially begun.

These next 40 days will be an awesome journey as, together, we embark on the largest single coordinated pro-life mission ever conducted.

Tens of thousands of people across 212 cities are uniting in this prayerful effort — as well as countless others in places from coast to coast who will be praying from their homes and churches — imploring God to end the scourge of abortion.

For this effort to have grown to such an amazing size  — and to have already saved 1,561 children from abortion over the last two years — is, to me, proof that this is God’s work.

HE is the answer to this crisis of abortion, so let’s pray harder than we’ve ever prayed before!

And speaking of blowing the trumpet, I can’t help but mention how effectively many of the local 40 Days for Life campaigns are “tooting their horns” about this effort. Media outlets across the country are buzzing with news reports about this fall’s campaign.

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=262