Current Projects
Documentary Screening
Once a year, we host a screening of a relevant documentary on OC's campus as a way to raise awareness students, faculty, and community members.
Once a year, we host a screening of a relevant documentary on OC's campus as a way to raise awareness students, faculty, and community members.
The tentative date this year is April 16, 2016. We will be showing Not My Life, which was filmed in a dozen countries, on five different continents. It presents a global perspective of slavery as it exists today, yet the film also manages to offer a message of hope.
In the words of the director Robert Bilheimer:
In the words of the director Robert Bilheimer:
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In his time, confronting human on human violence, Abraham Lincoln wrote: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. When I first read this sentence, I was stunned by its moral logic. Here was the essence of Not My Life. Then I thought of the oft-quoted line by the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats:Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Right now, I feel what these men felt: anger, sorrow, fear, and astonishment that we have even come to this. Perhaps these and other emotions are ones that the viewers of Not My Life will experience as well, and the ripple effect will begin. This of course is the great potential of the medium of film. It is a profoundly democratic and enormously accessible way for us to communicate with one another, and better understand the world in which we live. And so, at a time when it troubles me deeply that Lincoln and Yeats, writing long ago, have proven so prophetic about a world in which "nothing is wrong," I also take heart. For so long as we can talk to one another--in a letter, in a poem, in a movie, in any way at all--wrong can be made right, things do not have to fall apart, and our life as a human family can once again be compassionate and whole. |
Love Bags
Typically when a person is rescued from an exploitive situation by law enforcement officers, he or she owns only the clothing that they are wearing at the time. In order to show these survivors that we care and that they are not alone during this tough time of transition, we are collecting items (such as clean clothes, snacks, and toiletries) to put in reusable duffle bags. Once completed, these bags will be provided to local law enforcement officers to give to the people who are rescued. It is difficult for civilians to get directly involved in serving trafficking victims, so this is one key way that we, as a community, can show the love of Christ to survivors without causing any additional emotional trauma.
If you would like to help with a monetary donation or by donating new and unopened items for the Love Bags, you can contact us here. As an anti-trafficking club, we prefer products that are free- or fair-trade or that are widely known to be ethically made. (We recommend this book, The Better World Shopping Guide, for finding brands from companies that do not use slave labor.)
Here is a list of some items that are needed for the bags:
Typically when a person is rescued from an exploitive situation by law enforcement officers, he or she owns only the clothing that they are wearing at the time. In order to show these survivors that we care and that they are not alone during this tough time of transition, we are collecting items (such as clean clothes, snacks, and toiletries) to put in reusable duffle bags. Once completed, these bags will be provided to local law enforcement officers to give to the people who are rescued. It is difficult for civilians to get directly involved in serving trafficking victims, so this is one key way that we, as a community, can show the love of Christ to survivors without causing any additional emotional trauma.
If you would like to help with a monetary donation or by donating new and unopened items for the Love Bags, you can contact us here. As an anti-trafficking club, we prefer products that are free- or fair-trade or that are widely known to be ethically made. (We recommend this book, The Better World Shopping Guide, for finding brands from companies that do not use slave labor.)
Here is a list of some items that are needed for the bags:
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