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.

Nearly done - for now.

Only 300 push-ups and 27 million slaves to go!

The first campaign is drawing to a close. (Just in time for the baby!) But this cause is just getting started. I'll be doing it again next year - even larger and louder.

I've totally found my lifetime calling here. We're all flooded daily by a barrage of great causes, but the combined effect only seems to make you keep your money to yourself.  You're best

Over the last 100 days, I've reached about 40,000 people live in Martin Place, 17,000 via facebook, and 11,600 via crushslavery.com, which makes nearly 70,000, plus untold thousands reached second & third hand from folks forwarding the template email on to their friends & colleagues. By way of responses, I've had 134 people join the facebook cause, 226 signed the online petition, plus 100 offline signatures, which adds up to a healthy 460 personal responses.  (And that's not even counting the newspaper readerships of 310,000 for MX and 2x 147,000 for both times in The Sutherland Shire Leader, totalling 600,000.)

But let's give the first campaign one last push: Forward the http://j.mp/slaverypetition link to all your friends!. :)

While we prepare for the next campaign, you might like to subscribe to the new online paper: Crush Slavery News. Stay in touch, and join me in 2012! We'll be taking this to a whole new level next year!

Watch out world - we're gonna knock slavery over in this lifetime!

75% Complete

I never thought I'd get here, but tomorrow I'll have reached three quarters of my goal. Thanks to everyone who's stopped by to sign the petition and encourage me along the way. The number of people genuinely concerned about the issue of slavery has really encouraged me. Every lunchtime I drag myself down to embarrass myself yet again in Martin Place, but every time someone stops by for a chat and to sign the petition it really lifts my spirits. I always walk back to the office feeling much happier than when I left. So to everyone that's showed an interest, THANK YOU. :)

Half way there!

Thank you everyone for helping me spread the word. In the last 6 weeks, many people have learned of the scale and severity of the issues of human trafficking and slavery.

All going well, I’ll be hitting the half-way mark this Friday. If you’d like to celebrate my 5,000th push-up with me, then join me in the ground foyer on Friday at 12:25pm, when I head down to the MLC Centre to do my daily 100.

How you can help:

1. Sign the petition
2. Forward this draft email to your friends