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Dear fellow producers,
The Games for Change Festival, the largest conference on social impact game in the world, has selected our game project to their Festival Demo Spotlight along with other five projects. I will have the chance to present SOS_SLAVES to an international panel of funders and designers at the main stage of the NYU Skirball Center on June 21st.
Here is the link to their site. Click on your SOS_SLAVES Game...
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GLOBAL SLAVERY REMEMBRANCE DAY, a Texas non-profit, has partnered with Chelo to raise funds for SOS_SLAVES: Changing the Trafficking Game, a social-impact game.
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Thank you very much, Judith! I had already signed the Change.org petition and I will share this interesting social change app!!
Melanie Wallace thought new Workshop grad Rick Perez might be interested in this notice (he's working on a farm workers piece), and I thought you might want to see it, too.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 21, 2011
CONTACTS:
Meghan Cohorst, App User, 239-503-1533, meghan@sfalliance.org
Marc Rodrigues, Student Farmworker Alliance, (239) 292-3431, marc@sfalliance.org
Amanda Kloer, Director of Organizing, Change.org, (404) 451-6580, amanda@change.org
***MEDIA ADVISORY***
BOSTON CUSTOMERS TO THROW VIRTUAL TOMATOES AT TRADER JOE’S
Customers to protest abuse of farmworkers by using first-ever anti-trafficking iPhone app to hurl virtual tomatoes at Trader Joe’s store in Boston
BOSTON, MA - Trader Joe’s customers in Boston will protest the chain’s alleged refusal to support basic human rights of farmworkers by using the world’s first-ever anti-human trafficking iPhone app to hurl virtual tomatoes at the store’s image on Sunday.
When: Sunday, October 23, 4:00pm ET
Where: Trader Joe’s, 317 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
What: Meghan Cohorst and other protesters will hurl virtual tomatoes at images of Trader Joe’s and share them on Facebook and Twitter from outside the store as part of an in-person protest.
The app, Angry Tomato, is part of an ongoing campaign on Change.org asking Trader Joe’s, Publix, Kroger, Giant, Stop & Shop, and other supermarket chains to participate in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program, which would protect farmworkers from abuses such as modern-day slavery and raise wages one penny per pound of tomatoes picked. More than 36,000 people have already joined the online petition campaign.
“Angry Tomato users are making activist art by splattering virtual tomatoes and a request for change across the storefronts of grocery chains that are failing to stand up for farmworkers,” said Marc Rodrigues of the Student Farmworker Alliance. “Then, they can share their posters with friends on Facebook and Twitter, sending a powerful message to supermarkets that the time to end farmworker exploitation is now.”
Angry Tomato was designed by the Student Farmworker Alliance and built by mobile app developer Leaping Bytes.
Live signature totals from Student Farmworker Alliance’s campaign:
http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-trader-joes-to-sell-abuse-free-food
Journalists interested in contacting Trader Joe’s public relations staff should try:
Allison Mochizuki
Media Relations, Trader Joe’s
amochizuki@traderjoes.com
High Resolution Photos and Videos of App:
http://www.leapingbytes.com/userfiles/downloads/Angry_Tomato-Media_Kit.zip
For more information on Change.org, please visit:
http://www.change.org/about
Change.org is the world’s fastest-growing platform for social change — growing by more than 400,000 new members a month, and empowering millions of people to start, join, and win campaigns for social change in their community, city and country.
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Amanda Kloer
Director of Organizing, Human Trafficking, Change.org
www.change.org
@changeslavery
@endhumantraffic
Tx for posting, this is just the kind of good news we all need in the long dark days of December. I begin to feel sun-deprived and there're months more to go... J
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/12/02/alicia_foley_winn_and_kate_nace_day_discuss_their_film_forum_on_human_rights_and_sex_trafficking/
Thought you'd be interested! Judith
J
Sorry!
Judith
To add someone as a friend, you'll need to go to their member page. Underneath their photo, there will be an option to add them as a friend. I'm not sure of the wording of the option, since everyone automatically has me as a friend when they join the network. All I see is "Remove as Friend".
"My wife was ordered into bed rest by her doctor two weeks ago and then we had our baby 2 days early -- he was supposed to be born today (July 26) but we had a bit of an emergency Friday night and he was born Saturday morning. We get discharged tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to get myself up on the site tomorrow night or Wednesday night."
I thought you might like to know and send congrats! It's mburrows@scetv.org -- until he has a free minute...