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Fashion for Freedom Event Gets Rave Reviews

Posted by Terry FitzPatrick on August 23, 2018

The reviews are in, and our 2018 Fashion for Freedom Event in New York is being heralded as a fantastic success. Scores of Free the Slaves supporters and ethical fashion advocates gathered in Manhattan for the uplifting evening.

“The Fashion for Freedom Event was a snapshot of what ethical fashion can be at its greatest,” wrote Camille Mori in her Ethical Fashion Nerd blog. “We need to keep pushing for change. Even though there was a sense that this is only read more >

DoneGood Co-Founders Cullen Schwarz and Scott Jacobsen

DoneGood Makes Conscious Consumerism Easy

Posted by Rachel Karioki on July 19, 2018

Countless friends and family ask me: “How can I tell if a company is using sustainable practices when I shop?”

Let’s face it, the 40 hour workweek is a thing of the past for most people. And, who wants to spend their spare time researching corporate supply chains when they need a new pair of sneakers?

Scott Jacobsen, co-founder of DoneGood and his team are with you!

“We want to make it easy for consumers,” Jacobsen says. “Finding ethically-minded companies and designers read more >

Every Thread Matters: An Interview with Rachel Faller

Posted by Claire Dutreix on July 16, 2018

Fashion trends at affordable costs: it attracts consumers, but what about the workers who make the clothes? While shoppers browse the aisles of big-brand on-trend clothing, millions are enslaved around the world in big-brand supply chains.

That’s why Free the Slaves has established the Fashion for Freedom Campaign. Our supporters are eager to take action beyond making a donation. This year we’re hosting an exciting and exclusive event read more >

Sustainable Living: Saloni Shrestha and AGAATI Fashion

Posted by John Deckers on July 2, 2018

Being fashionable is easier today than ever. Companies produce clothing at an alarmingly fast rate for little cost to the consumer. The traditional four season cycle of fashion has expanded to new fashion lines being released monthly, giving rise to the fast fashion industry.

How can clothing be so cheap and readily available? Well, like all things, nothing comes without a cost, and while consumers of fast fashion may not see this cost in stores, there is growing concern and awareness read more >

Clothier Design Source "Behind the Seams" event in Saint Paul, Minnesota

The Fashion Revolution Is Here!

Posted by Rachel Karioki on June 25, 2018

It’s here! Actually, it’s been going on for a while, but for those of us who are behind the curve, it’s not too late – you can still join the ranks.

“We are a diverse community that includes board members who have been tackling sustainability and ethical fashion for decades and everyday citizens who are asking questions about the fashion industry for the very first time. Both perspectives are critically important as we strive toward a major paradigm shift,” explains Lauren read more >

Pratt Institute’s BF+DA Combats Fashion Slavery

Posted by Rachel Karioki on June 11, 2018

As I ride the elevator to the seventh floor of the old Pfizer industrial building in Brooklyn, I have no idea what to expect. On their website, the Pratt Institute Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA) is described as “a hub for ethical fashion and design that provides design entrepreneurs, creative technologists and industry professionals with the resources they need to transform their ideas into successful, triple bottom line businesses.” As a newbie to the fashion industry and someone trying to read more >

Rebecca Ballard Brings Ethical Fashion to Workwear

Posted by Dorthy Spingarn on June 4, 2018

“The industry is ready, and I’m ready,” says Rebecca Ballard when asked ‘why now’ about her brand, Maven Women. The brand, which was fashioned into existence in 2016, aims to provide the working woman with a professional wardrobe that puts ethics and sustainability at the forefront.

Rebecca created Maven Women to fill a need that she felt was being overlooked by the rest of the fashion industry – an aesthetic suitable for a professional setting but that still embraced her read more >

“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free”

Posted by Terry FitzPatrick on January 31, 2018

Today brings a close to Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. But at Free the Slaves, it’s not a time to relax. We will not rest for one instant until everyone, everywhere is free from bondage.

The great civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer noted that “nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it this way: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

Our strategy at read more >

Shadow Slaves: Art Exhibit Brings Slavery to Light

Posted by Anna Bengel on January 18, 2018

What does slavery look like? Somehow it’s both notorious and faceless.

Sometimes it peeks out from bars or restaurants. Often it’s hidden in homes, brothels, and farms, then buried further in international supply chains.

Child slaves—forced to haul heavy bricks at kilns in India and stones weighing as much as they do at rock quarries in Nepal, forced to mine gold and diamonds, and minerals that run our cell phone batteries, while covered in toxic dust—suffer in silence, sight unseen.

Slaves in Brazil, read more >

How Will You Take Action to End Slavery?

Posted by Terry FitzPatrick on December 26, 2017

Free the Slaves donors all have one thing in common: a burning desire to make slavery a thing of the past.

That’s why we sent award-winning documentary filmmakers this year to spotlight four Free the Slaves donors to learn how they discovered that slavery still exits and to showcase what they are doing to end it.

Our “Why I Free Slaves” 2017 film series compilation pulls together excerpts from these four remarkable stories – a historian, photographer, musician and researcher. We asked a read more >

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Archive for the ‘Artists Against Slavery’ Category

Fashion for Freedom Event Gets Rave Reviews

DoneGood Makes Conscious Consumerism Easy

Every Thread Matters: An Interview with Rachel Faller

Sustainable Living: Saloni Shrestha and AGAATI Fashion

The Fashion Revolution Is Here!

Pratt Institute’s BF+DA Combats Fashion Slavery

Rebecca Ballard Brings Ethical Fashion to Workwear

“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free”

Shadow Slaves: Art Exhibit Brings Slavery to Light

How Will You Take Action to End Slavery?

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