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TALK ABOUT IT
Here are some discussion questions to get the conversation started with your group after screening FREEDOM:
Indifference Is Not An Option. The goal of these talking points is to help your group process what they saw and
learned in viewing the film and drive them to action. These questions are just a launching pad to get the discussion
started, feel free to add your own questions.
When did you first learn about modern day slavery? What was your response?
How does the fact that 27 million men, women, and children are trapped in slavery today – more than any other
time in history – challenge you?
A powerful line in the film is, “Ignorance is not an excuse. Indifference is not an option.” Do you agree or disagree
with this statement. Describe the emotion or questions this statement draws out of you.
How did the true-life stories told in the film change or challenge your view of human slavery and/or trafficking? If
so, how?
Raman’s family was trapped in forced bonded slavery for three generations. They owed about $400 (US) and they
could have been free, but the debt was so high compared to what they owed that it was an impossible amount for
them to pay. Millions of people are trapped in similar situations in cotton mills, cocoa fields, and factories. After
hearing Raman’s story how does it challenge the way you view the products you buy?
Check out the list of 27 ways you can take action and talk about how you might get involved locally or globally to
be part of the solution to end modern day slavery. What are two action points listed that get you most excited? Are
there other action points not listed that you can engage in locally?
PRAY ABOUT IT
Break up in groups of three – prayer triangles – and spend some
time praying over the issue of human trafficking. Here are some
suggested prayer points to get you started.
Recognize Jesus as the one who can ultimately break the chains of
slavery and injustice.
Pray for the men, women, and children trapped in slavery.
Pray for the organizations who are on the ground leading the way
for freedom.
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27 WAYS TO DO MORE
JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY BY COMPLETING THE
ACTION STEPS:
27 WAYS TO DO MORE
Want to do more? Here are 27 more ways to help fight slavery and be a voice for the 27 million men, women, and
children who are held captive around the world.
1 Take the Slavery Footprint Survey and learn how many slaves work for you – based on the things you
purchase, wear, eat, use and purchase on a daily basis. SlaveryFootprint.org
2 Be a conscious consumer. Download and use the Free World App to let brands know that you care where
they source items from for their products. itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-world/id466979649?mt=8
3 Demand that your senators, representatives, and government officials make fighting slavery a top priority.
Here’s how you can contact them:
Senator: www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm
Representative: WriteRep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Other: hq-org2.DemocracyInAction.org/o/5417/getLocal.jsp
4 Do research. Dig online, read books and articles, and watch films to learn as much as you can about the
slavery issue.
5 Be aware. If you suspect trafficking call the National Trafficking Hotline. Plug the number in your phone:
1-888-3737-888
6 Start an International Justice Mission Chapter on your campus and rally a generation to fight for freedom.
IJM.org/itmatters
7 Get trained to fight slavery. Attend one of the Not For Sale Abolitionist Academy’s to learn more about how
you can identify and fight slavery. NFSAcademy.org
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8 Stop viewing pornography and encourage your friends to stop. Human Trafficking and pornography are
closely linked. When you consume pornography you are supporting trafficking. Stop.
9 Challenge airlines to provide training for all flight attendants on how to identify and watch for victims being
trafficked. InnocentsAtRisk.org
10 Adopt, foster children, or become an orphan advocate. Orphans and risk children are more likely to become
victims of trafficking, slavery, and sexual exploitation.
LIFE AND WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO
11 BREATHE
GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM TRAFFICKING
SITUATIONS BY WRITING LETTERS TO THEM.
THEA21CAMPAIGN.ORG/WRITE-A-LETTER.PHP
12 Read books about slavery, pass along the book or start a book club. Decide as a group how to take action.
Suggested book list available at 72DaysForFreedom.com.
13 Get educated and learn the facts. Then, boldly use social media and opportunities in your community and
sphere of influence to speak up.
14 Become an intern at an organization fighting slavery and/or trafficking on a local, nation, and/or global scale.
Use your gifts, talents, and time to make a difference.
15 Act local. Get your church, friends, or group involved in fundraising, volunteering with, and serving a local
organization caring for women and children who have been sexually exploited.
16 Fight slavery in the checkout line by learning about and refraining from purchasing items often produced by
forced labor. Learn more by reading the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or
Forced Labor. dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2011TVPRA.pdf
17 Eat Fair Trade chocolate and tell leaders in the chocolate industry to stop using child slave labor and institute
labor standards among their suppliers.
18 Be creative. Use your gifts to raise awareness and fight for freedom right where you are. Write articles, make
films, host events, go – the options are endless.
19 Engage with the CNN Freedom Project as they use their media influence to highlight slavery stories and help
set captives free. TheCNNFreedomProject.blogs.cnn.com/
20 Challenge tourism suppliers such as hotels and airlines to sign and participate in the Tourism Child-Protection
Code of Conduct. TheCode.org.
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21 Connect and/or support a local ministry working in your town that is reaching out to strip clubs and massage
parlors to identify trafficking and offer alternative options for girls who want to escape.
22 Help report, document, and track cases of trafficking in your community and around the globe: slaverymap.org/
23 Buy goods and support organizations that are helping those rescued from slavery, trafficking, and sexual
exploitation begin a new future.
24 Use your investments to fight slavery, not feed slavery. Learn more and take action to ensure slavery free
investments: FreeTheSlaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=379
26 Volunteer, teach a life skill class, be an academic mentor,
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or participate in home improvement project to help
restore the women at Wellspring Living recovery shelter
in Atlanta, GA. wellspringleague.org/?page_id=163
27 Teach young people that slavery still exists and challenge
them to get involved. Parents, educators, youth and
college pastors can help raise up the next generation
of abolitionist. Parent and Educator Discussion Guide:
cnn.com/2011/US/studentnews/04/04/freedomproject.
teacher.guide/index.html