CAST awareness campaign 

In order to increase knowledge and understanding about the existence of slavery and trafficking in the Greater Los Angeles area, CAST will launch a public awareness campaign and emergency support program that will help abolish slavery in Los Angeles – this time for good.  The campaign will be launched on Trafficking Awareness Day (January 11, 2010) and finalize on Lincoln’s Birthday (February 12, 2010). The "from slavery to freedom" campaign has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the S. Mark Taper Foundation, Humanity United and the DHHS Administration for Children and Families' Office of Refugee Resettlement. 

This initiative will revolutionize Los Angels’ awareness of the very real tragedy of human trafficking and slavery that proliferates in our city’s underground brothels and massage parlors restaurants, garment factories, outlying agricultural areas, even elder care facilities, and in homes and businesses using modern-day slaves for domestic work.  Although the majority of victims of trafficking in Los Angeles are immigrants with minimal education and few skills, this campaign will not only target them as potential victims, but will also inform the population in general about the existence of this modern day crime so that Angelinos are better able to report potential cases, and put pressure on traffickers to leave our city and cease their illegal trade of human beings. The long term goal of this campaign is to change awareness and behaviors among a critical mass of Angelinos in order to end lucrative practices that reward traffickers and create a market for slave labor in the Greater Los Angeles area.

We would love for every Angelino to join us at the various events taking place from January 11th through February 12th.  Please help us get the word out and encourage your friends, families and communities to participate! If you are interested in holding your own event during the month, let us know! We will include it on the calendar and promote it with our followers.

To view the event details please click on the month and day of the calendar above.

CAST awareness campaign events
January 11th-February 12th 2010.
 

 
January 11th: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

January 11th 11am. Press Conference at the Museum of Tolerance

January 12th: 7pm. Call & Response film screening at UCLA

January 17th: CAST table at the Studio City Farmers Market (8am-1pm); will be collecting donations, collecting signatures/email signups and selling T-Shirts, Buttons and possibly Freedom Keys. 

January 17th - I Witness Newsmakers on ABC will focus on modern day slavery.  Guests include CAST Executive Director Kay Buck, CAST Caucus of Survivors members, Julia Ormond, and members of law enforcement.

 
January 18th: Cristina Saralegui will interview survivors of human trafficking and advocates working to end modern day slavery. CAST survivor caucus member Flor Molina shares her experience and her work as an advocate. CAST staff Emmanuel Martinez was also on the show. The show will air nationally on Univision stations.

January 20th: 6pm UCLA School of Public Health: Panel discussion on the health needs of survivors

January 21st: East West Players event- Reading from the Play "Girls from Afar" at the National Center for Democracy

  
January 26th: Poetry Reading at the Lost Souls Café will focus on Human Trafficking

 
January 27th: 12-1:15pm RAND panel on the challenges of research in the study of human trafficking

 
January 27th: "Not in Koreatown?” Human Trafficking Awareness Night at the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA)

 
January 28th: Noon. Webinar: Identification of trafficking victims

January 30th: 9am-4:15pm. 7 hour training. An Introduction to the Immigration, Criminal and Civil Remedies Available to Survivors of Trafficking.

 
February 2nd: Public Debate on supply chain bill SB 567, National Center for Democracy

February 4th: 12pm-1:30pm. Webinar: Establishing a shelter for survivors 

February 6th: 10am 27 Blocks- Walking campaign

February 7th: 5 and 10K Race Redondo beach

February 9th: Noon. Webinar: Human trafficking 101

February 9th: 8:30-10:30pm Spoken word to raise awareness about human trafficking at the Colbalt Café, Canoga park

February 12th:

27 blocks walking campaign

Emanipation proclaimation

Emancipation Concert, The Conga Room

Various other events are being planned – details to be confirmed.

Ongoing/Multiple initiatives throughout the campaign:

• Media Networks (ABC, NBC/Telemundo, Univision, etc) will run weekly programs, interviews and PSAs
• Promotion of events/interviews on public radio: KPPC, KPFK, etc.
• Survivor Quilt and art by survivors on display at Museum of Tolerance
• Caucus members to speak at the Museum on multiple (Dates TBD)
• Community groups will walk 27 blocks to raise awareness about the 27 million enslaved
•  Social Media campaigns “27 things you can do…” on Twitter, Face book etc.
• MTV Exit, CauseCast, Change.org, etc, to promote campaign
• Catholic parishes incorporating Human Trafficking in sermons/homilies during the month, information on Human Trafficking to be included in the Catholic Archdiocese newsletters (Vida Nueva and/or The Tidings)
• The Body Shop in Los Angeles (14 stores) will promote the campaign, and collect donations (money and items)
• Jamba juice (various locations) to donate 20% of profits on one day to CAST for anyone who brings in a flyer
• Clothing drives:  January, 23rd  and 30th and February 6th ( El Segundo, Pasadena and Los Angeles)