FREE TO WORK

...Not for Sale is a campaign of students, entrepreneurs, artists, people of faith, athletes, law enforcement officers, politicians, social workers, skilled professionals, and all justice seekers, united to fight the global slave trade.

Every single person has a skill that they can give to free an individual living in bondage.

Slavery exists because of individuals and companies that prioritize money over humanity. If we can isolate human traffickers and slave-driven industries, we can put the slave trade out of business. This program gives companies the power to be part of the solution by ensuring that their supply chains are slave-free.

Want to join FREE TO WORK? Contact: Not for Sale.

BUSINESS STANDING AGAINST SLAVE LABOR

HOW TO BECOME AN ABOLITIONIST COMPANY...

ENSURE THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS ARE FREE TO WORK - An abolitionist Company pledges that they will not: use forced labor in its own operations, hire sub-contractors who use forced labor, buy source materials from companies that use forced labor, or work for clients who use forced labor.

CONTRIBUTE TO PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT MODERN-DAY SLAVERY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST IT - An Abolitionist Company publicly promotes the campaign to end slavery - it places the Not for Sale logo on it's company Website or brochures or places the Not for Sale flag on the wall of its offices.

STAND WITH EMANCIPATED SLAVES - An Abolitionist Company provides micro-finance (in the amount of $500 or higher) to new enterprises that enable emancipated slaves to develop a life of self-sufficiency.

PARTICIPATE IN FREEDOM SHOPPING - When relevant, Abolitionist Companies support abolitionist work or provide new markets to goods that have been made by emancipated slaves . For example, Peacekeeper, a cosmetics company, has innovated a Not for Sale lip gloss. Other companies are selling goods from the Not for Sale Freedom Store in their retail operations.

JOIN THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - The Campaign is planning a series of regional and national events that will link together Abolitionist Companies. In addition, the Campaign Website will feature the most creative and useful abolitionist practices that companies are doing. Finally, the Campaign Website will list Abolitionist Companies so that its members can turn to them for commerce.

BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

David Arkless is the Senior Vice-President of Corporate Affairs for Manpower, the world's largest private employer. An associate asked him in January 2006 what his company was doing about human slavery. David admitted that he had no idea what the woman was talking about. Once he started investigating the prevalence of human trafficking, he was appalled.
David was a human cyclone in 2006, using his networks to bring about changes inside Manpower and in other international companies. He persuaded his own company to take the lead in the private sector and Manpower became the first global corporation to sign the Athens Ethical Principles covering human trafficking.

>> Read about the Athens Ethical Principles: http://www.gcwdp.org

>> Corporate Watchdog Radio Interviews David Arkless and David Batstone about how companies can be abolitionists.

SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM

Shareowner engagement by Boston Common Management and the First Swedish National Pension Fund prompted the Marriott International, Inc. to explicitly address child sex tourism in the hotel corporation's human rights policy.

>> Read more: www.socialfunds.com

CONSCIOUS COMMERCE

Jody Weiss is the CEO of PEACEKEEPER, a line of cosmetics products for which revenues are used to support womens's health advocacy and human rights issues. Jody dreamed up the idea of the Not for Sale lip gloss - 5% of each sale goes directly to the Campaign's Fund to End Slavery. The lip gloss product launches in Whole Foods and other retail outlets starting mid-April.

BRIDGESTONE FIRESTONE TIRES. Liberia was founded in Africa as the "land of the free" -- as the country's name means in Latin -- in 1820 by a group of freed slaves. Sadly, Liberia is today home to conditions of slavery. In November 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) filed a case in US District Court in California against Bridgestone alleging "forced labor, the modern equivalent of slavery" on the Firestone Plantation in Harbel, Liberia.
The lawsuit states: "The Plantation workers allege, among other things, that they remain trapped by poverty and coercion on a frozen-in-time Plantation operated by Firestone in a manner identical to how the Plantation was operated when it was first opened by Firestone in 1926."

>> Read more at Social Funds.com

NIGHTLIGHT is a for-profit business that trains women how to make and sell jewelry. The products are made in the company's humble workshop in central Bangkok the jewelry is high quality and the design ranges from classic to trendy. Nightlight pays young women a salary twice the minimum wage established by Thai law. Obviously, the workers will not become rich quick off this pay, but the compensation does offer a sustainable livelihood. During the course of a work day, women engage in workshops on health care and HIV/AIDS prevention, managing personal finances, and take English classes.

>> Buy NIGHTLIGHT jewelry at the FREEDOM STORE