Experience Justice
One Saturday afternoon this fall, visitors trickled into an exhibit housed by the Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club: Experience Justice. Visitors were guided through several stations where they gained awareness about the atrocities IJM’s clients throughout the world experience every day and what we are doing to fight for justice and restitution on their behalf. Joseph and Mala*We shared the story of Joseph, a father in Kenya who was imprisoned despite his innocence. Unable to afford a lawyer, he would have to wait months or years for a trial held in a language he couldn’t speak. But IJM took Joseph’s case, and stood up for him in court. Read MoreIJM Day and What I Learned About Organizing
Emily Yount is the leader of the IJM student chapter at Vanderbilt University. Her group and their neighboring chapters at Belmont and Lipscomb Universities were instrumental in orchestrating the first ever “IJM Day,” that took place on October 1, 2013, in Nashville, TN. They also collected over 700 signed postcards, addressed to Senator Corker, asking him to support the Human Trafficking Prioritization Act. Emily is majoring in social work and will graduate in 2014.
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Hats Off to Nashville: Tomorrow is IJM Day in Music City
IJM Day ResolutionThe city of Nashville, Tennessee, recently passed a little resolution declaring Tuesday, October 1, 2013, “IJM Day.” You may now be wondering: what will IJM Day be about?
Given its title, you might think we’re going to throw a big party, at which Gary Haugen (our president and CEO) will thank the fine people of Nashville and their leaders for this honorable mention. But IJM Day is about much more than that.
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