Hello All,
To help continue the conversation about how our community can be involved with the work against human trafficking, we thought it would be helpful to let you know about events in the PDX area that you can attend to learn more about the industry. If you would like to know more about Pearl Church’s involvement with this kind of work through IJM please feel free to get a hold of Mo Hawthorne who is heading up this arm of our Outreach Ministry.
Thanks for your interest. I pray that the Lord would show us how we can move toward stopping this imjustice in our communities and in the world.
Best,
Fran
Human Trafficking Series sponsored by City Club
October 20th, Tuesday
Kell’s Irish Pub, 6pm
Speakers:
Retired Special Forces Colonel Dr. Bill Hillar
Portland Police Detectives Doug Justus and Meghan Burkeen
Brian Willis from Global Health Promise
Not for Sale - Scott MacDonald and Lisa Acheson
Chris Killmer - Catholic Charities, OSSIP
International Justice Mission
Transitions Global
Detective Keith Bickford - Director of Oregon’s Human Trafficking Task Force
Carol Fenton - Women of Vision
Other speakers may also be present. This is our time to discuss where we go from here, both individually and as a group. Do we continue these forums next year? Monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, not at all? Do you prefer longer meetings with more speakers, or is this about right? Tuesdays better? Good venue? etc, etc, etc!!!
Other OATH activities (visit our new website at oregonOATH.org):
Pacific University OATH Student Group:
Oct.13-Brown Bag “Porn v. Sex Work”
11:00 AM Documentary “Pornography: Andrea Dworkin”
12:00 Panel Discussion
Oct. 14-motion picture Trade
7:30pm in Strain 121
Contact Celeste Goulding at for further information
October 14, 15, 16 5:30 - 9:00 PM
Change your Look, Change a Life
Join the Future Professionals at Paul Mitchell, the Portland School and Agape Beauty Salon
Downtown Portland on SW Broadway and Oak
Choose salon services that night for yourself, or purchase a gift card for future use. For more information, call 503-367-0732
all proceeds benefit Remember Nhu a non-profit organization dedicated to fight the existence of forced prostitution and child sex slavery through education, safe havens, and nuturing environment - teaching young women skills in the hair and nail industry, giving them control of their lives and hope for their future.
http://www.remembernhu.com
October 16th, Baghdad Theater - Nicholas Kristof will have a talk and book signing for his new book “Half the Sky”. Cost $28, includes the book.
The Not for Sale Oregon Book Club is meeting on October 19th from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Hollywood Library. We will be discussing the book, “Half the Sky”. The book is a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
October 19th
Oregon Center for Christian Values
4619 N Michigan Ave
Portland OR 97211
Human Trafficking advisory committee meeting to vett through the upcoming possible bills that will be introduced this session.
contact: Stephanie Ahn Mathis 503-222-2072 (office) or
October 21st, Wednesday
Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea will talk at Concordia College
October 23rd, Friday
Not for Sale is partnering with NEW SEASONS with our Fair Trade Chocolate campaign. All New Seasons stores will have fair trade chocolate tastings and awareness materials.
October 28-30
Roots of Change: Men, Sex and Justice,
PSU, Portland, OR.
The Women’s Resource Center is organizing the conference for October 28-30 in partnership with the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force and the National Organization of Men Against Sexism. This year’s theme is “Roots of Change: Men, Sex and Justice,” focusing on the whys, hows and implications of engaging men inthe primary prevention of sexual violence.
For more information and to register, please see the conference website: http://www.sati.oregonsatf.org/roots.html orcontact Jessica Amo, WRC Assistant Coordinator, at .
October 29th
A North Korean human rights group in LA called LINK will be coming to Portland to show their documentary of three North Korean refugees escaping through the underground railroad. North korea has some of the most unknown trafficking in the world. http://www.seoultrain.com/ and organization: http://www.linkglobal.org/
Contact Stephanie Mathis for more information:
503-222-2072 (office) or
