Abducted. Chained. Violated. LIBERATED

About Project Liberation

Human slavery, contrary to popular perception, is not a terror belonging to the past.

In fact, there are 27 million slaves in the world today, the sex trade circulates 7 billion dollars a year worldwide and there are 300,000 child soldiers fighting in conflicts around the world.*

We live in a world that claims to be civic minded and globalized, yet the atrocities committed against humanity are more heinous and widespread than ever before in human history.

This is Project Liberation and we refuse to sit around and do nothing. Will you join us?

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In an effort to raise awareness on North Central College’s campus, the surrounding community of Naperville and beyond, we designed and hand-made three buttons. These buttons display provocative words associated with three slavery issues: child soldiers (abducted), forced labor (chained) and sex trafficking (violated).

Project Liberation team members will pass out buttons, free of charge, over a spaced-out period of three weeks. Each week will focus entirely on one button and its corresponding issue. The order will be ‘abducted,’ ‘chained’ and then ‘violated.’

Each button has a business card that displays three timely statistics about the corresponding issue, a quote from a victim and a link to an organization dedicated to the specific injustice.

There will be several events linked to Project Liberation throughout the academic year (2010-2011). The events will focus on continued human-slavery awareness and hands-on advocacy activities. Also, a continuous ‘fundraiser-bag’ will be present at all Project Liberation events. The money raised will be donated 2/3 to the International Justice Mission and 1/3 to Invisible Children.** Both organizations are actively and effectively working to end human slavery issues and we wish to support them through this donation.

Join our cause. We live in a world where the networks exist to bring the global community together and end the injustices committed on humanity. The only way we can accomplish this goal is by banding together as one cohesive unit; as one voice crying out for those who have been stripped of their rights, freedoms and voices by others.

 Let us join together through this group, adorn our outerwear with buttons and raise our voices until no one can ignore us or the atrocious realities of human slavery any longer.

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As a member of Project Liberation, you are encouraged to raise awareness of human slavery issues. During your research, if you come across an article, piece of news or any sort of Intel that is devoted to this community's mission of human liberation, please email gtswanson@noctrl.edu. Also, please email any face-to-face interactions or conversations you encounter as a result of the buttons. We will review your discovery and post it to the wall under your name! We love creative and impassioned involvement!

Project Liberation is a conglomeration of efforts from many students, Professors and faculty of North Central College under the umbrella organizations of the Leadership Ethics and Values program, Blue Key Honor Society and the International Justice Mission.

**Click here to learn more about organizations working to end human slavery:

*All statistics were found from '50 Facts that Should Change the World' by Jessica Williams.
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