New Yorkers Fight Slavery Now

Welcome to Fight Slavery Now!
Thank you for choosing to make a difference.

* Vision Statement *

Human trafficking is a terrible crime which inflicts unspeakable horrors on men, women and children, depriving them of their most basic rights and needs – those of free human beings with unalienable dignity:

* A sense of Equality,
* The protection of Law,
* Freedom (the ability to make choices),
* Liberty (the right to be free from undue intrusion),
* the pursuit of Happiness, and
* Life, itself.

This crime takes many forms: pay-to-rape (sometimes called "Sexual Slavery"); forced labor in factories, fields, restaurants, and offices; domestic servitude; debt bondage; military conscription; and, other types of modern-day slavery.

By and large, the traffickers are profit driven business people who view their victims as commodities. They are very much the sort of people to whom the "banality of evil" tag would apply - were their chosen endeavors not so despicable.

It doesn‘t just happen somewhere "over there." Human trafficking is rampant in the United States, and right here in New York City.

Millions of people worldwide are held against their will, without hope, and in need of our help.

We envision a world where the root causes of human trafficking have been addressed.

* Mission Statement *

We are an all volunteer grass-roots member directed organization empowered by consensus and bound together in common purpose: To do all that we are able to put an end to modern-day slavery, a crime against humanity that is flourishing in our midst. We strive to create an enlightened society where a market will not be tolerated for the sale and illicit exploitation of human beings.

* Goals *

Help ensure that investigators are adequately funded and perpetrators vigorously pursued; victims are offered hope and healing, instead of scorn and punishment.

Develop greater understanding of the root causes of human trafficking and raise awareness of all facets of the problem, its magnitude and scope in all its various forms.

* Action Programs *

+ Ongoing public education events including film screenings, leafletting, public speaking and mailings.
+ Development of legislative initiatives and implementation.
+ Actively develop partnerships with other groups in furtherance of our goals.
+ "Seal of Freedom" consumer education program.
+ Enhance the Resource Library in our "Files" section.
+ Group book reading and discussion as a learning tool, with reviews posted on our Message Board.
+ Regular publication of a newsletter for our membership.
+ Continued strategy meetings to assess programs and goals.
+ Maintaining two web sites, the largely informational FightSlaveryNow.Org,
and our dynamic Meetup.com/Fight-Slavery-Now site for our members.

Let’s Fight Slavery Now!