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Share Some would say that Backpage is an ally against the fight against human trafficking – and it’s just not true. Click here to learn why and see how Backpage is NOT an Ally in the Fight Against Sex-Trafficking. On June 20th, join NYCUP, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and hundreds of people [...]
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Share Our 10th annual show, Retro-Active: 10 Years of Poetic Action, will be held on May 17, 2012 at 8 PM at the Helen Mills Theater on West 26th Street. Retro-Active will take a look back at Poetic People Power’s artistic response to the changing political landscape over the last decade and offer new words about where our [...]
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Share Andi, a sixteen-year-old runaway, was repeatedly sold by her trafficker on the street. Even though the Safe Harbor Act recognizes that prostituted children are trafficking victims, Andi was arrested, arraigned in criminal court and convicted of prostitution. In its landmark anti-trafficking laws, New York State has taken the lead in recognizing that many women [...]
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Share NYCUP Artist Courtney Wong debuts her song “Taking A Stand” in a music video directed by Gisella Gutierrez (a NYCUP Alum). The song tells a story of the terrible injustice surrounding Sex Trafficking, and about her choice to take a stand while inviting us to do so too.
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Share “We are not able to do the things that God has called us to do because we are not the people He has called us to be” says Francis Chan. It is not we ourselves who will change us, but Jesus who is the power for transformation. God’s invitation is for us to [...]
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Share NYCUP Artist Courtney Wong releases her 7th video in her anti-human trafficking youtube series! Deirdre Mars: Beyond Fair Trade Durability, Part 1 World of Good on eBay Eco Fashion World Worldstock Fair Trade on Overstock Featuring my original song: Taking a Stand Please subscribe to my channel & check back next [...]
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Share He was the first speaker I had ever invited to NYCUP Summer in 2009. Now he is the Executive Director of Restore. Read this article and Restore NYC’s new director, Jimmy Lee. NEW YORK—Thousands of women are sold for sex every day in New York City, but between two long-term restoration homes, only [...]
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Share The low wages, long hours, abuse and suicides are not a myth or rumor but the realities of millions of people who work in manufacturing plants in China and other developing nations. FoxConn, most famous because it produces the Ipod, Ipad and other Apple Products burst into the forefront of a media frenzy when [...]
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