Find Your Voice. . .Break the Chain
A Local Organization
The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center acts for justice in the church and in the world. IPJC is sponsored by sixteen religious communities and collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out this mission. IPJC is supported primarily by sponsoring religious communities, who established and have maintained IPJC since 1991. Each Sponsoring Community provides a representative of its Leadership Team to serve on the IPJC Governing Council. IPJC also is supported by Affiliate Communities.
As part of their vision for peace they educate the community about human trafficking and take steps to impact the darkness with the Light. There are numerous human trafficking resources and opportunities for action steps organized by IPJC.
Take Action
Monthly Human Trafficking Awareness Vigil
Join IPJC's monthly prayer vigil at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle on the 1st Sunday of the month at 1:30 pm. the next vigil is on July 4th. Contact IPJC at 206.223.1138 or via e-mail for a "tool kit" (complete with signs and outreach suggestions) to start a monthly vigil in your own community.
Legislative Action Center - write your members of Congress
Stop the Demand for Products Made by Slave Labor
Support Federal Funding of Services for Sex Trafficking Survivors
Public Awareness Campaign
IPJC recently worked with women religious in the Seattle and Tacoma areas to launch a awareness campaign on city buses. For information about starting a bus ad campaign in your local community, contact IPJC for a tool kit.
Write to Chocolate Manufacturers
Watch a short video about child labor and slavery in the chocolate industry. Then write a letter to chocolate manufacturers asking them to live up to their commitment to help the children on cocoa plantations in West Africa and stop using child and exploited labor.
Prayer Focus:
Ask God to continue to work through the Seattle Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center to educate people in the South Puget Sound Area about human trafficking. Ask God to bless them as they organize action steps through their monthly prayer vigils, their awareness campaign about human trafficking on city busses and their resources to advocate with our government and chocolate manufactureres. Pray that hearts will be stirred as readers gain knowledge about human trafficking and that this stirring will result in action against human trafficking. Ask God what your part should be in response to the knowledge available at their website.
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