Flashmob for Freedom

Local abolitionist group organizes national demonstration to build human trafficking awareness, San Diego Flashmob for Freedom to take place September 25, 2010, Downtown

SAN DIEGO - What can one person standing still for five minutes do? Not much. How about 50 people? How about 1,000? How about 100,000? San Diego-based NPO, With More Than Purpose, wants to show people what just 5 minutes can do. Flashmob for Freedom is a national awareness event being organized by WMTP Founder and Executive Director, Nikki Junker, and individual activists in their respective cities around the US.

Across the country, major cities are participating, starting at the State Capital in Sacramento and ending at the White House in Washington D.C.. Each city has a designated date, time, and location spread over a two month period to ensure a rolling and growing movement as Flashmob for Freedom moves from west to east coast.

Participants will meet at each city’s designated location five minutes before “showtime.” They will roam the area until the set time, at which point they will remove an outer article of clothing to reveal matching anti-human trafficking t-shirts, hold a sheet of paper with a fact about human trafficking (the average age of entry into sex trafficking in the United States is 12, 300,000 underage women are domestically trafficked annually, an adult male agricultural worker can be bought on US soil for an average of $300...), and freeze for five minutes. The idea is to draw attention, to make people stop, look, and pay attention, even if only for five minutes to the fact that there is a problem in this country, which is not being addressed. The overall goal is to get 100,000 people to participate across the country. That is one person for every one child commercially trafficked in the United States annually. One person to have a voice for every child who cannot speak up for him or herself.

The San Diego event will take place September 25, 2010 from 12:25 to approximately 12:40 at the corner of Broadway and Second Street.