FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007
Mobile Aesthetics & Social Movements
12:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Polycentric sessions and screenings, San Francisco
Art Institute, Lecture hall and classrooms
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Human Trafficking sells bits and pieces of our
humanity on the whole auction block of the world. As a result, the holistic
aspect of one’s humanity is lost in this dangerous trade. How
do we combat the 3rd largest criminal activity in the world? United
of course. Human liberation can only be reached through the unifying
force of diverse people. Since we are made from the rib of creativity,
we must also express our struggle through the tool of creativity. Creative
mediums must be analyzed as assets that can inform and change society.
It must be inclusive and include the survivors, activists, academia
and artists, especially since each one depends on the other. In order
for the message to be truly powerful, it must be spread by those who
have been anointed enough to survive it and those who have the gift
to interpret it: artists and survivors. For every survivor is also an
artist as every artists is also a survivor. From this philosophy, the
message about Human Trafficking, particularly sex trafficking and prostitution,
will be more effective when told in its full perspective representation
of artists and survivors