If you want to know more their website is on the side>>
My all time favorite quote comes from this documentary
"Never forget Justice is what Love looks like in public"
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Call and Response
Thought it would be good to give ya'll a trailer of the doco we are showing (smiles!)
If you want to know more their website is on the side>>
If you want to know more their website is on the side>>
saving 50!
Cooper's project was under way and i was made to face my fear and call copious amounts of people to try and get interviews and support and anything else we could muster for the doco.
Now last year i had watched a documentary called "Call and Response" and thought it would be amazing to get an interview with the guys that are heading the Call and Response Campaign. I knew a past lecture was friends with them so from under a table and with my best friend holding my hand, I called him to ask for Mark Reading's Details (aka the Call and Response guy).
Turns out at that time Jeff (my lecturer) was sitting down to have lunch with Mark, and decided to pass the phone over to him. I must admit it was flippin strange telling this guy i'd never met about what my brother and i were doing, but by the end of the conversation he had decided to support our endeavor and gave the finishing touches to our dare.
He said, "How inspired would it be if you two could save 50 girls from sex slavery and raise the money to rehabilitate them for a year, to rescue and rehabilitate them it would cost about $5, 000. You can do this! I DARE you to put on an event, get musicians and artists and who ever will help and raise it."
He then gave me the rights to show Call and Response so i could show it as part of the event.
Now my brother and I are attempting to save 50 girls in 365 days. Cooper is raising awareness and people are pledging money to and through his doco. And i am trying to bring artists and musicians together in my town to try and raise money to save these girls.
This blog will document the steps taken to achieve this.
Peace,
Jorj
Now last year i had watched a documentary called "Call and Response" and thought it would be amazing to get an interview with the guys that are heading the Call and Response Campaign. I knew a past lecture was friends with them so from under a table and with my best friend holding my hand, I called him to ask for Mark Reading's Details (aka the Call and Response guy).
Turns out at that time Jeff (my lecturer) was sitting down to have lunch with Mark, and decided to pass the phone over to him. I must admit it was flippin strange telling this guy i'd never met about what my brother and i were doing, but by the end of the conversation he had decided to support our endeavor and gave the finishing touches to our dare.
He said, "How inspired would it be if you two could save 50 girls from sex slavery and raise the money to rehabilitate them for a year, to rescue and rehabilitate them it would cost about $5, 000. You can do this! I DARE you to put on an event, get musicians and artists and who ever will help and raise it."
He then gave me the rights to show Call and Response so i could show it as part of the event.
Now my brother and I are attempting to save 50 girls in 365 days. Cooper is raising awareness and people are pledging money to and through his doco. And i am trying to bring artists and musicians together in my town to try and raise money to save these girls.
This blog will document the steps taken to achieve this.
Peace,
Jorj
Coop's PP
Lets get some background on how this all came about:
Yes week was underway.
My brother has just started grade 10.
To pass the year he has to do a Personal Project.
That means he does what ever he wants to do and then presents it.
My mum's a film director. means she has good stuff we can use.
I have a slight phobia of calling people on the phone/asking for anything (yeah i'm a freak, we know this, accept it, and move on.)
so one lovely day my brother was complaining about his PP (personal project, yes u know what it sounds like) not knowing what on earth he was going to do, when my mother turned to him and said, " oh for goonessake, how about you do a doco on Yes Week" my brother said that was a good idea and my mother let out a sigh of relief as her son had now left the kitchen to plan and she could get back to chopping onions.
So he started to embark on this project, soon he realized that this was harder than expected and decided he needed my help, this was a good idea for two reasons
1: my brother looks like a 12 year old Justin Bieber so its hard for people to take him seriously
2: last year i was apart of a 3C's production called STOLEN, about oh guess what, human trafficking, go figure! and so had made a few good contacts with people that were good to interview and what not.
So we started getting interviews, and talking about what we were doing and the word started spreading. 2 weeks into this all. i received and email...
This email was from a prominent university in the area (who want to remain anonymous, until all is finalized in january). The Uni wanted to dare Cooper to finish his documentary, pledging a significant amount of money to Yes week, for it.
So now this small school project, has erupted into a campain to raise awareness and money and actually make a difference!
this isn't the end of the story so keep reading!
Yes week was underway.
My brother has just started grade 10.
To pass the year he has to do a Personal Project.
That means he does what ever he wants to do and then presents it.
My mum's a film director. means she has good stuff we can use.
I have a slight phobia of calling people on the phone/asking for anything (yeah i'm a freak, we know this, accept it, and move on.)
so one lovely day my brother was complaining about his PP (personal project, yes u know what it sounds like) not knowing what on earth he was going to do, when my mother turned to him and said, " oh for goonessake, how about you do a doco on Yes Week" my brother said that was a good idea and my mother let out a sigh of relief as her son had now left the kitchen to plan and she could get back to chopping onions.
So he started to embark on this project, soon he realized that this was harder than expected and decided he needed my help, this was a good idea for two reasons
1: my brother looks like a 12 year old Justin Bieber so its hard for people to take him seriously
2: last year i was apart of a 3C's production called STOLEN, about oh guess what, human trafficking, go figure! and so had made a few good contacts with people that were good to interview and what not.
So we started getting interviews, and talking about what we were doing and the word started spreading. 2 weeks into this all. i received and email...
This email was from a prominent university in the area (who want to remain anonymous, until all is finalized in january). The Uni wanted to dare Cooper to finish his documentary, pledging a significant amount of money to Yes week, for it.
So now this small school project, has erupted into a campain to raise awareness and money and actually make a difference!
this isn't the end of the story so keep reading!
Yes Week
For a few years this problem has come into my radar, and for years i've felt bad wanted to do something about it and then got busy and gone back to my life, forgetting slavery even exsisted.
Then this year in october a guy by the name of Joel Parke, just a regular guy with a heart to see change, decided to create an event to raise money to buy out victims and rehabilitate them, and essentially give them back a life.
And him being the quirky character that he is came up with Yes Week... I'll let him explain what it is...
...so anyway... as all this was happening, my brother turned to me and said "lets do this, because just thinking that something needs to be changed, doesn't make it happen"
so we started finding dares and trying to get the word out and raise money and what not...
we were expecting to get a few little dares, to raise a couple hundred dollars and thats it.
then things changed...
when my brother and i were dared to do something crazy, something that would take a year to finish rather than just a week. and we embarked on our quest...
peace,
Jorj
so we started finding dares and trying to get the word out and raise money and what not...
we were expecting to get a few little dares, to raise a couple hundred dollars and thats it.
then things changed...
when my brother and i were dared to do something crazy, something that would take a year to finish rather than just a week. and we embarked on our quest...
peace,
Jorj
Lets talk numbers
1833 ~ the year William Wilberforce abolished slavery
27 million ~ Number of estimated slaves in the world today
50% ~ percentage of those slaves who are children
80% ~ percentage of traffic victims who are female
80, 000 ~ number of people trafficked into America each year.
9th ~ where Australia sits on the list of most trafficked to countries in the world.
70% ~ Number of female victims who are forced into the sex industry
161 ~ Number of countries affected by trafficking
32 billion ~ total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry
67, 200 ~ average profit from 1 victim per year
12-14 ~ average age of entry into forced prostitution.
2 ~ number of cases in Australia of Sex slave victims, ever.
sometimes we sit between paralytic despair and complete obliviousness.
we need to realise that we are not talking about people who are given a small wage or prostitutes who don't get condoms. we are talking about girls and boys from the age of 2 who are forced to live in small rooms, who are raped and beaten and tormented, who are forced to work day in day out without pay, who's lives and who's families lives are threatened and who, when they get to old, look to unattractive, break too many bones, are killed and another person is stolen to take their place.
sorry i know heavy and annoying, you don't want to read this. i get it. just felt like i needed to put you in the picture. please read on, lets figure out how we can stop this. Promise thats as heavy as its gonna get. =P
27 million ~ Number of estimated slaves in the world today
50% ~ percentage of those slaves who are children
80% ~ percentage of traffic victims who are female
80, 000 ~ number of people trafficked into America each year.
9th ~ where Australia sits on the list of most trafficked to countries in the world.
70% ~ Number of female victims who are forced into the sex industry
161 ~ Number of countries affected by trafficking
32 billion ~ total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry
67, 200 ~ average profit from 1 victim per year
12-14 ~ average age of entry into forced prostitution.
2 ~ number of cases in Australia of Sex slave victims, ever.
sometimes we sit between paralytic despair and complete obliviousness.
we need to realise that we are not talking about people who are given a small wage or prostitutes who don't get condoms. we are talking about girls and boys from the age of 2 who are forced to live in small rooms, who are raped and beaten and tormented, who are forced to work day in day out without pay, who's lives and who's families lives are threatened and who, when they get to old, look to unattractive, break too many bones, are killed and another person is stolen to take their place.
sorry i know heavy and annoying, you don't want to read this. i get it. just felt like i needed to put you in the picture. please read on, lets figure out how we can stop this. Promise thats as heavy as its gonna get. =P
Embarking on the crazily unthinkable
So 2011 is going to be interesting...
My brother cooper and i are attempting to free 50 slaves in 365 days.
So why are we doing this??
because its important.
thats all.
because no one deserves to live without freedom
and because although so many people have spent their lives abolishing freedom, there are STILL MORE SLAVES TODAY than in any other time in history.
so we are going to do all that we can to stop this.
if we can free 1 person than its worth it.
So i plan to document what we do on this blog if for nothing than to have a record then thats amazing but i hope that someone will find this and see what is happening and say, if a flippin 15 year old and her 21 year old sister can pull this off than what is stopping me.
Lets bring change.
peace, Jorj
My brother cooper and i are attempting to free 50 slaves in 365 days.
So why are we doing this??
because its important.
thats all.
because no one deserves to live without freedom
and because although so many people have spent their lives abolishing freedom, there are STILL MORE SLAVES TODAY than in any other time in history.
so we are going to do all that we can to stop this.
if we can free 1 person than its worth it.
So i plan to document what we do on this blog if for nothing than to have a record then thats amazing but i hope that someone will find this and see what is happening and say, if a flippin 15 year old and her 21 year old sister can pull this off than what is stopping me.
Lets bring change.
peace, Jorj
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