Posts Tagged ‘human trafficking’

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CCA – only one more day to donate

January 24th, 2011 | by Trevor
Posted In: Charity

Last year I participated in the Comic Creator’s Alliance (CCA), founded by Lora Innes (The Dreamer). This non-profit runs from January 11 – January 25 to raise money to fight human trafficking. Most of human trafficking is sexual slavery, and it’s important that this is stopped – which is why I participate in the fund raiser every year without hesitation.

Last year we raised over $10,000 for the CCA, and 100% of those proceeds went to help stop human trafficking. This year we’re doing it again, and there’s only ONE DAY LEFT to donate to the cause.

Any donation is accepted, and for your donation you receive an awesome one-of-a-kind poster from 100s of web comic and professional comic artists from around the world. Below is a promotional video with more information.

If you want an awesome poster AND the chance to make the world we live in a better place, be sure to donate to this awesome cause today.

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Comic Creator’s Alliance

January 10th, 2010 | by Trevor
Posted In: Charity

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead

Monday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. To participate, we formed the Comic Creator’s Alliance–a group of over eighty comic book creators (both web and print) who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause. You may not know it, but there are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. Unlike slavery in the 19th century, what is happening today is happening in secret. So it won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand.

So here’s what we did: each creator contributed an original drawing of one of our own female characters, and combined them into a single wallpaper image. The wallpaper features characters from The Phoenix Requiem, Girls with Slingshots, Earthsong, Looking for Group, Shadowgirls, Marsh Rocket, The Uniques and three IDW Publishing titles: Fallen Angel, The Dreamland Chronicles and The Dreamer, and lots, lots more! Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper. The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from January 11th – 24th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love146 and Gracehaven House- two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime.

To learn more about the Comic Creator’s Alliance visit www.comicalliance.weebly.com. To learn more about the problem, visit http://love146.org/slavery. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)

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