Advocate to End Slavery in the DRC

It strikes me as a strange juxtaposition to sit here and use my laptop (with my cellphone sitting in front of me) to write about what an injustice it is that people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) being enslaved to make my technology possible.

I would explain it, but an amazing little organization called Emote360 can do it much better, faster and in a cooler way than I ever could with their 1 minute advocacy video on this subject. They actually won an award at the Hollywood Film Festival for this project! Thanks for letting me use it guys!

Check it out:

So…What do you do? (The texting advocacy program is over, by the way, so don’t bother trying!) The advocacy efforts of several different human rights organizations have paid off and there is now a new piece of legislation being moved through Congress to reduce the use of conflict minerals coming from DRC by enhancing transparency and accountability for companies whose products contain mineral ores or their derivatives produced in the DRC. 

Please Ask your representative to co-sponsor this bill. It is SUPER easy to do thanks to Amnesty International. Just fill in your info and click ‘Send’. If you’ve Taken Action before on Amnesty.com all you have to do is put in your e-mail address. EASY! (Plus, once you do this, the next time I feature something from their website it will take you less than 10 seconds!) Thanks for being an advocate!