TED Talk by Lisa Kristine

Wow.  Lisa Kristine is a very hard core photographer, with a massive story to tell.

Go full screen.

City 2 Surf

Thanks to all who helped me support Project Futures End Sex Trafficking in the City 2 Surf.  At 14kms, it's my longest race yet, and I feel a grand sense of accomplishment for just finishing it in under 2 hours!

Fighting Slavery in South Africa

Check out Servaas Hofmeyr at STOP Trafficking of People and The Stir.

As well as running two websites against slavery, this fine South African fellow has put a further dent in slavery by his recent awareness-raising run in the 2-oceans marathon.

Let's get behind him!

Running with Project Futures

I've just signed up to run the City 2 Surf with Project Futures in August.  I'll have a GoFundRaise page up and running soon.

New Twitter Feed

I've started a new twitter feed: @crushslavery.  Follow it now.

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

A superb day to wrap up the 2011 campaign. Actually, I'm just about to mail off the petition to Kevin Rudd & Julie Bishop.

Updated stats are:

30,000 people watched me live in Martin Place

23,000 visited the facebook cause (guesstimate after stats removed)
16,900 visited crushslavery.com
183 read the online newspaper I started last month
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40,000 reached online

310,000 readers of MX newspaper
147,000 readers of The Sutherland Shire Leader
147,000 second time in The Leader
147,000 third time in The Leader
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751,000 newspaper readers

Plus untold thousands reached second & third hand from folks forwarding the template email on to their friends & colleagues. (Thank you!)

148 joined the facebook cause
263 signed the online petition
123 signed the offline petition
5 people joined me doing push-ups
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539 personal responses

Check out Crush Slavery News, and contact me if you're gonna join us next year, in Martin Place, or Sydney Airport, or wherever you want! We want to make this a viral craze like planking or extreme ironing.

10,000 Push-ups in the Bag!

Yep, job done. And I'll be doing it all again next year! To keep in the loop, subscribe to Crush Slavery News and @crushslavery My hearty thanks to the folks that joined me in the campaign. Together, we can Crush Slavery!

Some great public awareness ads from Anti-Slavery Australia...

	Domestic Worker Trafficking for domestic servitude can happen in private homes. Debt bondage, coercion, exploitation, sexual assault, threats of deportation and social isolation may indicate trafficking.
	Restaurant Worker People who are trafficked may be unlawful or hold visas entitling them to work in Australia. Signs of trafficking may include debt bondage, deception, coercion, threat and control.
	Agriculture Worker This 30 second short film is about trafficking into agricultural work and shows how coercion, withholding of passport, non-payment of wages, and threats to report to immigration can be signs of trafficking.