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President and Co-founder of Not For Sale, David Batstone, will speak tomorrow at the prestigious National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. A number of anti-slavery organizations will join the President of the United States, Members of Congress, and other dignitaries at the 60th annual event. Dr. Batstone will take to the stage to speak specifically about solutions to end modern-day ...

Not For Sale welcomes the news that the Hershey company has pledged $10 million to educate West African cocoa farmers on improving their trade and combating child labor. The leading US chocolate producer has announced it will release a new version of Hershey’s Bliss brand, which will be 100% made from Rain Forest Alliance-certified farms mostly in Ivory Coast and ...

There’s something about a movement that attracts attention, people and/or media and/or whatever. Some more than others. There’s the Tea Party movement.. Occupy movement.. Arab Spring movement.. movements can be social, political, even religious.

In the midst of post-election violence in Kenya, one entire church was burned down. We lost all of our paperwork and child documentation — nothing was left. You can also view the One Step Forward: Replacing Adversity with Creativity video on YouTube. My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates Read full original post.

He might have forgotten, but I still remember. It was an act of love from one child to another. The memories of this wave of love in a remote village school will always stay with me. It was early in the morning, and I was wheezing from running the three kilometers on a dusty road. After observing the mounted dust ...

Money often distracts us from whats important. Togetherness and selflessness and acting from the heart without considering what one gets in return. Let us instead create a currency of self-sacrificial love. Begin today.

Guest Blog by: Melissa Manske Tuesday’s GOP Primary Debate in Florida found Gingrich and Romney competing for frontrunner status. Another thing they now apparently share is a position on the DREAM Act. After earlier proclaiming that undocumented, long-term residents should not be kicked out of the country and (I thought) sounding sympathetic to the plight of undocumented youth, Gingrich announced ...

That is the phrase one of my students in the California Baptist University’s Disability Studies MA program, Jennifer Baca, used to describe to too often experience of people with disabilities.  It is a powerful phrase, that is damning in its implications.  Many people who experience disability have lives filled with people who are nice, perhaps because they are paid to ...

The popularity of my posts over the last couple of days on community, hospitality and food made me realize how many people are looking for resources to help them form community in this way. As well as that today is the celebration of the Celtic saint St Brigid of Kildaire who was known for her generosity and hospitality. Like many of the early Celtic saints she believed that hospitality was a doorway into the kingdom of God.

So here are the resources I would recommend as a starting place.