Call and Response

This is a limited release "rockumentary" educating people about the global slave trade. I'm hoping that it will turn into an "Invisible Children" sort of grassroots movement, in which people are motivated not only to spread awareness but actually to revolt against evil. My friends and I went to see it the other day, and it is convicting and wrenching but not hopeless. I've been impressed by the heart behind this project. The cost of production was donated and all profits are going to nonprofits that are fighting the slave trade and healing victims. Call and Response plans to continue the movement by focusing attention on product sources. In other words, are human rights being violated in the production of our common products? Anyway, please check out their site!

http://callandresponse.com/

CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.

Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Performances from Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed artists including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Talib Kweli, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, members of Nickel Creek and Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Rocco Deluca move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it.

Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.