Call+Response

Have you ever had one of those moments that changes the course of your life forever? It's that moment when all of reality shifts a little further into focus... and it's almost blinding. I want to tell you about that moment for a hero of mine. And when I say hero, I mean it in every sense of the word. He has a vision for his life that inspires and humbles me. I want to be like him... I look up to him... and he's in high school! When Zach Hunter was 12 years old, he was studying pre-Civil War America. We all know about that dark time in America's history... when we were deeply involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. He was inspired and moved by the stories of people like Harriet Tubman and her Underground Railroad. He told his mom, "If I were alive back then, I'd be an abolitionist."

"You know, Zach, slavery still exists today," his mother said. "In fact, there are more slaves in this moment than in the entire 400 years of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade."

--CRACK!!-- This was that moment for Zach. His whole world quaked. He couldn't comprehend a world that hadn't learned from it's past sins. He started a movement called Lose Change to Loosen Chains. Is simple, you educate people on the horrors of the International Slave Trade and ask them to donate their loose change. That money is then donated to any number of organizations whose mission includes freeing slaves (IJM, FreeTheSlaves, etc.). Zach's story was really the first to open my eyes to the International Slave Trade.


Well today I heard about another great movement in the abolishment of slavery. It's called CALL+RESPONSE. 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.

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