The Red Flame for Freedom
Yes! We have initiated a campaign to raise money, $24,000 and up, to support the The Red Flame for Freedom
movement from community to community in a six month journey across America. Our goal is to raise awareness, educate and empower communities and people just like you and I, to realize the prevailing presence of modern day slavery in our communities and how we can make a difference.
My name is Audri Scott Williams together with Karen Hunter Watson , my mother (now deceased) Mama Natalie, Tony Shina, Chandelle C. Binns, Baba Ojiji, Mary Woods, David Defebo and many others have walked for peace and justice since the year 2000. I have seen many changes since those early years when we set out to change the world AND the many ways in which change is yet to be realized. My heart breaks every time I witness the growing numbers of women, men, and children who are entrapped in modern day slavery - sex trafficking, human trafficking, mass incarceration and children in poverty.
After the Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk took us to six continents and 23 countries; after the 13 Moon Walk 4 Peace took us across America and back; and after numerous walks in communities for peace, for the environment, for community empowerment, and for our children--we now come face to face with modern day slavery and it’s horrific impact on families and communities across this country and the world.
Now, we, Karen Hunter Watson, Tannur "Shewrightz" Ali and her three children, and I are inspired to set out across America once again. This time we are determined to raise awareness of, and create solutions for, ending modern day slavery in our country.
We need your financial support to assist us with transportation and documentation of our journey -- The Red Flame for Freedom.
Our six month journey has begun. It is our goal raise at least $24,000. A portion of these funds will be used to assist with transportation of our team of eight, community based projrects, and a part of the production costs of a documentary that will help us to get our message out to the world.
Imagine an unstoppable team: two “Grandmothers”; one single Mother and her three Children; and two additional members (not yet identified). Then imagine them walking, organizing, engaging youth and adults in arts for social change, and creating opportunities for collaboration and coalition building to end modern day slavery!
Did you know?
- More than 15.5 million children in America were poor in 2014, with more than two-thirds in working families - See more at: http://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/endingchildpoverty/#sthash.2ODJxqcP.dpuf
-The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons or jails -- a 500% increase over the past thirty years. http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=107
- The United States of America is principally a transit and destination country for trafficking in persons. It is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked to the U.S. annually.
http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/united_states_of_america
The Red Flame for Freedom may be the most important walk we have ever done because people seldom realize the full implication that modern day slavery has on families and communities -- not just now but well into the future. We are compelled to use all that we have learned on prior walks to raise the awareness of the atrocities happening in plain sight and to offer ways that we can remove the blinders that perpetuate these conditions through awareness, education and empowerment.
The funds we raise will help us to make a difference. But we can only do this with your help. $5, $10, $20 and up...every donation matters!
We thank you for being the change we are all capable of being and to pass it on. Every walk and every movement we have initiated has been supported by communities -- PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU AND I!
TOGETHER, WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!!
