Be the Change - End Slavery Today
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Be the Change
End Slavery Today
Three years ago 12-year-old Zach Hunter joined a new era of abolitionists fighting to free people around the world enslaved in agriculture, the sex trade and domestic servitude, including some 200,000 in the United States. Now a high school freshman, he serves as student spokesperson for The Amazing Change 2007 film campaign to end modern-day slavery and reform society.
"When I learned there were about 27 million slaves in the world, it blew me away," says Hunter. So he wrote a book called Be the Change and set out to travel the country speaking to youth at music festivals, churches and schools.
Professor of ethics David Batstone of the University of San Francisco has traveled five continents researching how modern-day slavery works. His students are now mapping slave labor in their own backyard, so that concerned citizens can act. It’s also a model for students elsewhere to map their own cities. "We’ll take that report each year to the mayor’s office, the chief of police, and the media," says Batstone. "My students are unbelievably charged up."
So is Hunter. "My vision is that my generation would be written about in the history books as a generation that really cared about others and brought about change," he says. The film he’s promoting celebrates the success of William Wilberforce, the man behind the end of the British slave trade 200 years ago.
For information visit TheAmazingChange.com.
