VOTE NO ON PROP K

I am voting No on prop k next Tuesday the 4th in San Francisco and here is why you should too...

Not For Sale: The UNDERGROUND

Undercover video from suspected place of trafficking in San Francisco. (Not for Sale Campaign)
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED –
SF’s PROPOSITION K
BACKGROUND:

Not For Sale is against all forms of slavery: Anywhere and everywhere in the world. It is for this reason that we are deeply concerned that San Francisco (Full Disclosure: where we are based) is on the verge of passing Proposition K.

At first blush Prop K’s language appears to be an attempt to decriminalize prostitution; the terrible truth hidden within Prop K is that it would:

* (1) severely hinder –if not completely stop- local law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prosecute crimes of trafficking and slavery, by making it illegal for police to garner funds to investigate crimes of trafficking.
* And (2) de-fund programs that assist survivors, women and children, exiting the sex industry.

The measure directs the San Francisco Police Department and the District Attorney's office to refuse to enforce the State of California's prostitution laws. These sections include the laws used to investigate and prosecute traffickers and those involved in exploiting children. Non-enforcement of these laws would send an invitation out to pimps, traffickers, and johns.

According to San Francisco’s District Attorney Kamala Harris, Prop K, “would expressly bar the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes. Human trafficking is a serious problem in San Francisco. Many people in the commercial sex trade have been trafficked and forced to participate in commercial sex. This measure would attempt to provide safe harbor to their traffickers." (italics added)
The Not for Sale Campaign is opposed to Prop K.
THE ACTION:

We need you to call, email, carrier pigeon your friends, acquaintances, sister churches, business partners who live in San Francisco to encourage them to vote NO on Prop K.

If you live in San Francisco, or the Bay Area, please contact Kilian Moote to find out how you can mobilize and act to stop Prop K.

For more information on Proposition K, please visit our local partners at www.noonk.net.

-Louisa Barry
Not For Sale, No On K Program Coordinator

USF news article about Nicaragua

This article is about my peers in Nicaragua this last summer on the USF website, take a look!

http://www.usfca.edu/usfnews/news_stories/Nicaragua1.html

Weekend with the Fam

I got to see the fam this weekend, my step grandmother came in from New Jersey and my Uncle Curt from Montana and we got to spend some nice time with my grandmother who is in the hospital for heart surgery. Here is my dad goofing around in the bed, it was actually really funny because when he got up he had baby powder all over his butt and back, and we didn't tell him...hahaa

Check Out the Not for Sale Campaign!

http://notforsalecampaign.blogspot.com/ or www.notforsalecampaign.org

This is the blog of the organization I am interning with. The org is awesome and I completely support it and have given them a lot of my time and energy so take a look!!

Horseback Riding in Half Moon Bay

Last Saturday I went horseback riding for a couple of hours with a few friends will and Brandon who are hilarious and this was their first time riding a horse...we were on beach in Half Moon Bay and it was so nice to be away from the city and be on a horse for a couple hours...what an adventure!











I was laughing so hard because I know they were going to be so sore after that intense ride!

Will and Brandon were all tuckered out it was so funny. They passed out on the bus ride back.

Pictures of DC

This is the USF group with the USF people affiliated with the campaign above us all.


This is the line of people walking to the theater with the candles.


Here is the Auditorium we had the majority of the conference at on the campus of Georgetown.


Part of the conference was having break-out sessions. I led the break out session on the student movement against trafficking. Under the campaign we have programs called "Free to..." while Free to Be for example is about expressing your freedom of religion or Free to Play where people should be free to play sports- in hopes of raising further awareness and getting more people involved.

DC and the Not For Sale Campaign

DC was great, it was a successful conference at Georgetown on October 8th and 9th. The attendees learned how to be smart activist, more of what the NFS campaign was about and how to get involved and education others. We lobbied on the hill talking to Congress men and women as well as senators' staffers and representatives. Thursday night we had a candle light vigil, to light the path that we walked on symbolizing our movement to bring light to the horrible slavery conditions today. We walked with candles to the E Street Theater in DC to watch an amazing new film out about musicians and the anti-trafficking movement called: CALL AND RESPONSE.

Look at the youtube link, it is out in theaters and I really recommend seeing it! My professor and the founder of the Campaign is in it- David Batstone and my class at the University of San Francisco got a shout out as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVy3WgN2MM&feature=related

RA, ACE and Intern

SO much has happened in the last two months, where to begin...
Classes started a ltitle more than a month ago and they are good. I am taking Intro to GLobalization with with this great anarchist professor- the class has no strucure, I swear but it is great, then also political economy of developing nations- which is intense with about a hundred pages of reading every week, then there are my core classes I have to take which are Math and economics- which I definitely am not a fan of but will power through them.

I love my Resident Advisor job, being with Freshman and being able to help them and be there for them with so many questions and anxieties is really fullfilling! I really like the staff in the building I work with and my Hall Director, my supervisor who is an amazing woman. My co-ra, who lives on the other side of my floor is also one of my best friends and that makes my 24/7 job so much better!!

The McCarthy Center of Public Service and the Common Good also offered me a job with them about a month ago as an ACE. ACE stands for Advocate for Community Engagement. I get to facilitate the service students do in the communiy through their service learning courses they take at USF. The community partner I work with is called Glide in San Francisc, it is a great organization in the Tenderloin that really works with communiy needs, I feel really lucky to work with them.

I am also interning with the Not For Sale Campaign working with the high school movement in the bay area and somewhat nationally. We just had this greast conference in DC, the 8th and 9th of october at Georgetown University. It was to bring people together around the nation and educate them about trafficking and help them become involved in the anti-trafficking movement. We also lobbied a little bit on the hill with all the congress people and senators staffers and tried to put political pressure on the senate and house to the pass the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which needs to be reauthorized every two years. So we had a conference, that I helped work on for about 150 people, to help prepare people for the lobbying and get them more involved in the anti-trafficking movement.