Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Can Just One Voice Be Heard?

"What if your feet were literally shackled together all day long as you sit on a dirt floor rolling cigarettes? What if you had to dive down to the bottom of the river to untangle your masters’ fishing nets, after your best friend had just drowned the day before doing the same thing? What if your father had a drug addiction so he sold you into slavery to get his next high? What if you crushed boulders into gravel with a heavy hammer all day long until you were breathless, sun burnt and bleeding? This is the case for many men, women, and children around the world today."

These are the challenging words of a teenager named Zach Hunter. He is leading a revolution called Loose Change to Loosen Chains whose primary goal is to find the estimated millions dollars of pocket change hiding inside our couches at home using that money to mobilize his generation to end slavery. Not just sweatshop labor, but actual slavery that is every bit as sick and ugly as it was in our country two hundred years ago.

Can just one voice be heard? His is.

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