Echo: A Poetic Journey Into Justice, a poetic theater performance to bring awareness to the horrific circumstances surrounding sex trafficking/slavery, will hold performances on Saturday October 9, 2010, and Saturday October 16, 2010, 7pm, City Of Refuge United Church of Christ, 1025 Howard Street, San Francisco, Ca.
Echo braids together the fabric [...]
On Thursday afternoon, Because Justice Matters staff attended a protest outside of Craigslist’s Headquarters in San Francisco.
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and SEVERAL other co-sponsors hosted a protest to bring attention to Craigslist’s facilitation of SEX TRAFFICKING across their large global network.
The protest comes in [...]
Introducing our BJM summer interns:
Tom
Hello, my name is Thomas Panicucci, and I’m from Iowa. Last winter, I took a semester off from school to spend 3 months in San Francisco. The city opened my eyes and expanded my world views. Coming from a relatively small town in Iowa, I had never been exposed to many [...]
In December, the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition hosted a rally on the steps of the Civic Center. Speakers, many of which hold offices such as member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, spoke on behalf of immigrants and policies that they want to see changed regarding their rights. They discussed topics like education programs (ESL [...]
This past week in both the House and Senate, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act was resubmitted. In 2000, President Bush signed this bill into action and it has been reauthorized over the last 8 years. The next step of importance is to communicate with the new Obama administration that we need to keep moving forward [...]
This past month at Because Justice Matters, we’ve been collecting donations along with combining our own resources to provide a generous amount of gifts for the women of La Casa de las Madres shelter.
We were able to obtain a wide variety of gifts for the women such as bath and body gift sets, pajamas, robes, [...]
We at Because Justice Matters have chosen to support La Casa De Las Madres, a non-profit domestic violence organization here in the city. As a part of our involvement we we like to provide some practical holiday gifts for women at the shelter. We would love for anyone to be involved by donating any of [...]
The city of San Francisco voted and decided against Proposition Measure K! Although at times standing in the wind and rain handing out “No on K” fliers was a bit draining, I believe our efforts as well as those with No on K, and the others that made themselves available to fight K, DID make [...]
This week in BJM we concentrated our efforts on working to raise awareness for Proposition K, which will appear on the 2008 ballot for San Francisco. A group of us handed out fliers on the streets and in the BART Stations. Proposition K’s arm is to legalize prostitution to protect sex-workers from being criminalized if [...]
Ten months ago when I first came to San Francisco, I was introduced to trafficking through hearing about the film “Call & Response”. At that time it was still in process of being made; now it has been released in some theaters and it turned out to be an incredible film, well made, good music, [...]
