Price of Life NYC

The New York City Price of Life Invitational scheduled for fall 2013 is a city-wide, campus-based, faith-inspired campaign addressing human trafficking in all its forms, sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, World Vision, and a diverse coalition of organizations.

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Aug 10

Announcements!

The Price of Life: NYC has some exciting upcoming events! Save the dates for the following, and look out for posts in the next few days explaining more details.

  • Think Tank II: Social [MEDIA] R[EVOL]UTION - How does good go viral?  08.25 |  10 AM - 2:30 PM  |  250 W. 80th St.

  • Just Art II: The line between truth and propaganda - How to make (good) art for good?  When making art for justice’s sake, where does the line between art and propaganda blur? How can artists avoid gimmicky art when representing important issues?  09.13  |  6:30 PM - 9 PM  |  IAM, 38 39th St, 3rd floor.

  • Just Art Poster Challenge: We’re calling visual artists to design a flyer exploring the concepts art, message, truth and propaganda for Just Art II (above). We’ll feature the winning design and award several prizes. Submit entries to priceoflifenyc@gmail.com by Friday, August 24 at 9 AM. More info here.
Posted at 9:59 AM 1 note Tagged: upcoming eventsprice of lifejusticeartsocial mediahuman traffickingsex traffickinglabor traffickingdo somethingpassionpropagandatruthJust ArtThink TankKony 2012

Jul 10

tokenzebra:

The Price of Life NYC

Have you seen our video yet?
Posted at 1:58 PM 2 notes Tagged: price of lifetokenzebrahuman traffickingsex traffickinglabor traffickingfreedomdo something
Source: tokenzebra

May 29

“Like a Yelp for Slave-Free … “

Whenever we try and explain what a LOGOFF App is, “Yelp, but slave free” is inevitably one of the first explanations. Here, Mike Notley explains a little bit more what we’re making and why.

By Mike Notley, former InterVarsity student and current NYCUP Intern

What do we do when cultural norms and systemic complacency allow injustice to continue in our world? We create catalysts for change!

LoGOFF is a movement started within our partner project, the NYC Urban Project, as a way to combat human labor trafficking. It stands for Local, Green, Organic, Fair Trade, & Slave Free. We see it as the catalyst for the change in how we consume everything things while fighting for worker rights and their protection. On this past April 28th, people gathered together to brainstorm what this change would look like.

This is what we came up with…

At All Angels Church on the Upper West Side, people of many different backgrounds came to show their support and offer their skill-sets to see God’s kingdom lived out through the act of justice in consumption. We started the day with Worship, acknowledging that we are thankful for a God who is bigger than us and our problems. That if He is the way, the truth, and the life than we know He is fully capable of ending this injustice of Human Trafficking and that we can take comfort in placing our hope in Him because there is victory in His death.

During the afternoon tracks were held that we strategically picked for our first meeting. They included Theology, Design, Development, Data Collection. After collaborating for a couple hours we were excited with the result. We could actually see congruence within all the groups as we began to think big about what this LOGOFF App could look like, what it could do, and how it would help others to easily “LOGOFF of what is easy and LOGON to what is right.”

Keep an eye out on what’s new for LoGOFF in the coming months, our NYCUP Summer Immersion Project where students will be collecting data for the App, and how you can participate to make this a reality!

Posted at 1:58 PM Tagged: logoffbuy your valuesslave freefair tradeconsumer habitslabor traffickingNYCUP

May 22

slaveryfootprint:

Plug in your earphones and take a listen. Ambassador CdeBaca explains how learning his Slavery Footprint number has affected his consumption habits. 
Posted at 10:01 AM 3 notes Tagged: buy your valueslogoffhuman traffickinglabor traffickingconsumer habits
Source: madeinafreeworld

Apr 26
stoptraffickinginky: Cheap Shrimp, Funded by Human Trafficking and Environmental Destruction “Most shrimp consumed in the U.S. doesn’t come from American waters. In fact, about 90 percent of it originates at farms in Thailand, Vietnam, South America, and China. Using aquaculture to mass-produce the crustaceans has dropped prices to all-time lows, but increasing evidence suggests that the savings to consumers are fueled by human rights abuses and environmental disasters at shrimp farms.” Read More » Within this article, an interesting excerpt that hints at the role consumers can play in showing a willingness to pay more for slave-free products and the role of law / law enforcement in creating a level, slave-free playing field: Sorng and UFCW have staged protests and strikes to make the international community aware of Phatthana’s abuses, and they’ve made some progress. But Phatthana is just one player in an industry that’s fiercely competitive and utterly lacking in transparency. If these kinds of practices are happening at that factory, it’s a safe bet that similar situations are occurring elsewhere.

stoptraffickinginky:

Cheap Shrimp, Funded by Human Trafficking and Environmental Destruction

“Most shrimp consumed in the U.S. doesn’t come from American waters. In fact, about 90 percent of it originates at farms in Thailand, Vietnam, South America, and China. Using aquaculture to mass-produce the crustaceans has dropped prices to all-time lows, but increasing evidence suggests that the savings to consumers are fueled by human rights abuses and environmental disasters at shrimp farms.”

Read More »

Within this article, an interesting excerpt that hints at the role consumers can play in showing a willingness to pay more for slave-free products and the role of law / law enforcement in creating a level, slave-free playing field:

Sorng and UFCW have staged protests and strikes to make the international community aware of Phatthana’s abuses, and they’ve made some progress. But Phatthana is just one player in an industry that’s fiercely competitive and utterly lacking in transparency. If these kinds of practices are happening at that factory, it’s a safe bet that similar situations are occurring elsewhere.
Posted at 10:01 AM 10 notes Tagged: shrimpthailandfair tradeslave freelabor traffickingmodern slavery
Source: GOOD

Apr 18

Who’s complying with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act?

The Act: As of January 2012, requires companies with more than US$100m in sales worldwide that do business in California to clearly post on their websites the steps they are taking to address human trafficking and slavery.

The Rationale: If consumers know what companies are doing, they can support good practices with their dollars. [That’s the idea behind the New York City Urban Project / Price of Life upcoming LOGOFF creative work day! Are you going?]

Compliance: A University of Delaware study found that about a quarter of eligible companies have not posted the information as required.

Who’s doing it right? The study reports that:

The Jones Group, whose brands include Jones New York, Anne Klein, Rachel Roy and Nine West, [i]s an industry leader in this area, as its disclosures not only addressed all elements but also contained supporting evidence for each of its statements.

Posted at 9:36 AM 1 note Tagged: Californiasupply chaintransparencylabor traffickingslaveryLOGOFFNYCUPprice of lifevote with your dollars
Source: udel.edu

Mar 30

Who should we follow?

priceoflifenyc:

This blog is just getting started. Can you suggest blogs about human trafficking / modern slavery / freedom / making a difference for us to follow?

Help us get started! :)

Posted at 11:15 AM 2 notes Tagged: sex traffickinghuman traffickingprostitutionmodern slaverylabor traffickingfreedomchild slaveryslavessocial justicehuman rightsequalityfeminismnonprofitvolunteerloveservejustice
Source: priceoflifenyc

Mar 24

Who should we follow?

This blog is just getting started. Can you suggest blogs about human trafficking / modern slavery / freedom / making a difference for us to follow?

Posted at 11:15 AM 2 notes Tagged: sex traffickinghuman traffickingprostitutionmodern slaverylabor traffickingfreedomchild slaveryslavessocial justicehuman rightsequalityfeminismnonprofitvolunteerloveservejustice