The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) became law in 2000. It is the first major comprehensive U.S. legislative effort to combat modern-day slavery.
Not For Sale has been working in coalition with many other anti-slavery groups for the past year to advocate for important tweaks to the TVPA. These modifications include initiatives to increase victim identification, to provide survivors with much needed services, and to prosecute traffickers. We are happy to report that the bill passed in the House of Representatives last December in an overwhelming 405-2 vote.
However, with less than a week left before Congress adjourns for the year, the bill is still awaiting Senate action. It's important for your Senators to know that human trafficking is an issue you care about, and that you support the proposed changes within the TVPA.
Please make your voice heard by calling your Senators and urging them to cosponsor the reauthorization of the TVPA in the Senate, with important amendments:
1. Find your Senator's contact information.
2. Download talking points for your call.
World Day of Prayer 2008
Our Gathering is at 6:30pm, Sept 11th on the beach @ Riverside Blvd in Long Beach, Long Island.
We invite you to join us in affirming these words:
We hope you will join us in a spirit of Oneness and Peace for our 2008 World Day of Prayer.
We invite you to join us in affirming these words:
We are peacemakers, one in the love of God.
With hearts united, we establish harmony and peace
In our lives and in the world.
We hope you will join us in a spirit of Oneness and Peace for our 2008 World Day of Prayer.
Our Prayer of Peace
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on clover-leaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh, hear my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on clover-leaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh, hear my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.
Shalom, Shanti, Mir,
Peace, Peace, Peace
We're Back from Greece!
We had a great time in Greece and are looking forward to seeing you on Thursday at our world Day of Prayer Gathering on the Beach @ Riverside Blvd on Long Beach!
See you there!
Feel free to call me on my cell if you have any questions.
Love, John
516-238-5461
I am prepared for and enthusiastic about life.
At times I may push myself to find the right answer to a challenge only to make little progress in discovering it. Then, as I pray and turn all over to God, I give it a rest.
During my prayer times, I open the window of my soul to the light of God. The answer comes. That's it! God reveals what I need to know and how to go about applying this newfound wisdom in my life.
Having tapped into the wisdom of God, I have gotten past my own limited thoughts and anyone else's belief that I am limited in any way. I understand that I had been trying too hard, making a situation complicated when simply relying on divine wisdom was the thing to do.
What a relief it is to know I am prepared for life and enthusiastic about living each day from the wisdom of God that is within me.
"Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."--Matthew 21:22
See you there!
Feel free to call me on my cell if you have any questions.
Love, John
516-238-5461
I am prepared for and enthusiastic about life.
At times I may push myself to find the right answer to a challenge only to make little progress in discovering it. Then, as I pray and turn all over to God, I give it a rest.
During my prayer times, I open the window of my soul to the light of God. The answer comes. That's it! God reveals what I need to know and how to go about applying this newfound wisdom in my life.
Having tapped into the wisdom of God, I have gotten past my own limited thoughts and anyone else's belief that I am limited in any way. I understand that I had been trying too hard, making a situation complicated when simply relying on divine wisdom was the thing to do.
What a relief it is to know I am prepared for life and enthusiastic about living each day from the wisdom of God that is within me.
"Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."--Matthew 21:22
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