Art Against Slavery
THE MEN: THE DEMAND
It is possible that you know, live with or work with one of these men.
ART AGAINST SLAVERY
MEAT MARKET by Ismini Black, a high school student.
Ismini is a leading artist with The NO Project. After attending a multi-media seminar by The NO Project and watching Emma Thompson's anti-trafficking film, The Journey (see below), Ismini created Meat Market. She continues to work with The NO Project and has created more amazing anti-trafficking artwork.
Please see FIGHT SLAVERY for more ART AGAINST SLAVERY
Little Angels, FREE ME Art Installation by The NO Project
LITTLE ANGELS from FREE ME, an anti-slavery Art Installation, first seen at the Athens Fringe Festival, June 2011.
FREE ME was created collaboratively by artists from The NO Project . We had no idea that the images would have the impact they did. People were moved to tears as they walked around the space. See FIGHT SLAVERY to view more photos from FREE ME
ReQuest Dance Crew join the fight against Human Trafficking
ReQuest Dance Crew. These incredible HIP HOP champions use their power, passion and skill to raise awareness of the global slave trade. A heartfelt THANK YOU from THE NO PROJECT to this brilliant all-female dance crew from New Zealand.
Dance Flash Mob Against Child Sex Trafficking
See Annie Lennox's little bird in a whole new light. A powerful dance flash mob for LOVE146 in the heart of London, Trafalgar Square Please share and spread the word! West End dancers and singers donate their time and skills against child sex trafficking
1,2 Million Children
Congratulations to Effie Pappa! Her beautiful anti-trafficking animation has just won an award at 2011 ANIMFEST, International Animation Festival, Athens, Greece. Effie's passion and talent is an invaluable contribution to THE NO PROJECT. Effie, you are a gem and a wonderful example to so many artists against slavery. Credit to ALL who worked on this project!
Judges Comments: 2nd Award
1,2 MILLION CHILDREN by Effie Pappa, 2’ 36’’
The film is distinguished by its rhythm and the successful combination of techniques of animation, designed to discreetly pass a specific social message.
Love 146 – The History
This short video is unforgettable. Rob Morris the co-founder of LOVE 146 describes how this remarkable global campaign against child sexual exploitation came about.
Heartfelt thanks to LOVE 146.
Ghosts
Ghosts is based on a true story about twenty three Chinese illegal migrant workers who drowned while forced to collect cockles (shellfish) off the coast of England on the night of February 5, 2004. They became cut off by the incoming tide and although one person was able to use a mobile phone to contact rescue services a number of circumstances led to their death. Two bodies were never recovered.
The 2006 film Ghosts, directed by Nick Broomfield, is a dramatisation of the events leading up to the tragedy.
The Journey
Richard Jobson and Emma Thompson's short film about the brutal realities of sex trafficking. Made in conjunction with The Helen Bamber Foundation featuring original music by Richard Ashcroft.
Emma Thompson on 'The Journey':
I've known Helen Bamber for about 25 years. When I was still a comedian, and doing stand-up, I would do a lot of benefits for the various foundations she was involved in. And when she started this new foundation, campaigning for the victims of human-rights abuse, she asked me to get involved – so I became chair.
The reason I've become particularly involved in this campaign heightening awareness of sex trafficking is that one of the victims spoke to me about her experiences. And I thought that her story would be something that might lend itself to many artistic forms. One of these was an installation which has just come back from New York and which I recently took to Madrid (it opened in Trafalgar Square a few years ago).
And the other was Richard's film. The Journey is quite abstract, because we felt that a lot of the films made about trafficking don't necessarily convey the full horror of what these woman go through. So, rather than making it with a traditional narrative, Richard made something that's about what happens on the inside. With me, floating about, being appalled, on the outside. We wanted to create something that was a visceral experience.
Sex Trafficking in the UK
Via the Observer
Sex trafficking in the UK: one woman's horrific story of kidnap, rape, beatings and prostitution
Marinela Badea was a 17-year-old student in Romania when she was forced from her home and plunged into a nightmare of brutal sex crimes
When police turned up at the Shangri-La, it was quiet. Marinela Badea was catching up on sleep and was awoken by the commotion. Minutes later, on a grey Manchester morning, she and half a dozen other women were handcuffed and marched out of the red-brick massage parlour in Openshaw in the east of the city.
Marinela, 17, was terrified. Trafficked from Romania, she had been coerced into prostitution by a pimp who beat her with numbing regularity. Now there was something new to fear. "I didn't even know where I was going," she says now. "I couldn't trust anyone, I had no idea of the law. I was so scared."
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