100 Days to Freedom - Making History Today!

October 2012

Dear Friend,

Right now, secondary students across the country are learning about the Emancipation Proclamation and the issue of human trafficking with a project we created called, 100 Days to Freedom. As part of the project, students are collaborating to create a "New Proclamation of Freedom" which will state the urgent problem of human trafficking and ask the US Department of Education to facilitate a National Human Trafficking Education program.

The completed Proclamation will then become part of an online petition that is circulated nationally by Change.org in order to gather support in the form of signatures for this request by students and FDFF to the US Department of Education. On January 1, 2013, the National Parks Service and FDFF will host ceremonies and events for Emancipation Day with the document and signatures in hand. Our hope is to have President Obama sign the New Proclamation as an important historical parallel to Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation exactly 150 years earlier at the White House.

Click here for more information on the project.

JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH AND PRESS CONFERENCE

On October 20th, the completed Proclamation will be introduced publicly for the first time at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site during a press conference.

Ken Morris will stand on the front porch of his great great great grandfather's home and introduce it to the world along with 10 students who helped to write it.

If you're going to be in the Washington DC area on October 20th, we hope you can join us for this historic event. Here are the details:

Event: Launch and press conference for the "New Proclamation of Freedom" (This is a free event)
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012
Location: The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Purpose: 1) To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the home being a national historic site 2) To launch the New Proclamation of Freedom and 3) To recognize Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton for her efforts to bring the FD Statue to the U.S. Capitol.

100 DAYS VIDEO CHALLENGE - Make a Great Video Win an Amazing Trip!

What is Freedom? Answering that question in the right way could win you and two guests a complimentary trip to Washington DC on January 1, 2013 for our Emancipation Day events. The only requirements are that you're at least 13 years old, you're in secondary school and you make a great video of 2 minutes or less.

Ariana Taveras, a Douglass Freedom Partner and former student at Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth, NJ, explains the video challenge. Click the play button to watch the video:

Click here to find out how you could win the grand prize - Good Luck!

100 DAYS TO FREEDOM WEBINAR #3

Join the discussion online as we update you on the status of the 100 Days project for secondary schools. We'll be talking about the Emancipation Proclamation, Human Trafficking and the New Proclamation of Freedom. This is the third in a series of special webinars that will follow 100 Days through Emancipation Day on January 1, 2013. Meet Robert Benz and Ken Morris and ask questions about the project.

We recommend the webinar for students, teachers, administrators, parents and everyone interested in history and/or human trafficking. Our next scheduled webinar is Tuesday, October 16 at 8:00pm EST.

Please click here to register and/or watch recordings of the previous webinars.

FDFF IN AUSTRIA

Ken Morris has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference which will take place October 11-12, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The speech will give voice to the heroic lives of Ken's great ancestors, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and focus on our human trafficking prevention and education service-learning curriculum in schools. Ken will also talk about our vision for replicating this prevention and education model in schools in the U.S. and Internationally.

The event is being organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In an effort to reach a wider audience for the conference, the event will be offered through a live web stream on the OSCE conference web page:

http://www.osce.org/event/alliance12

Please feel free to pass on this link to colleagues or anyone else you think would be interested in following the event.

WILL YOU DONATE TO FDFF TODAY?

In order to continue offering this important Human Trafficking prevention and education curriculum at no charge, we need your support. 100's of schools across the country have downloaded and implemented our curriculum over the past year. We have been able to reach thousands of the most vulnerable children in our communities with information that protects, engages and enlightens. km_wilson

Mayor Bloomberg's office has asked us to partner with them to bring our service-learning curriculum to New York City Public Schools January, 2013. We have the potential to reach more than a million students In New York with this vital information. In order to make this program and 100 Days a success, we need your help.

Please consider donating to FDFF today so we can continue this important work in schools.

Click here to donate today.

In Freedom,

Frederick Douglass Family Foundation

www.fdff.org

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Help the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation affect change through human trafficking awareness while directly supporting our educational programs in schools. Together we will:

Protect girls from becoming the victims of minor sex trafficking;
Teach young men that their choices could increase demand for exploited girls and women;
Empower young people to make a difference in the world around them.

Please consider donating so we can continue to offer our service-learning curriculum at no charge. Your help is essential.