Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Anti-Trafficking Twitterers

Photo by Josh Russell

With more and more modern-day abolitionists turning to Twitter to connect and get the word out, I thought it would be good to put an up-to-date list together of people I enjoy following on that glorious tech invention (and occasionally monumental timesuck).

Here are a few people and organizations to consider following if you're on Twitter, and want to continue the conversation about ending child sex trafficking and other human rights violations.  

Individuals:

Diana Scimone, Born2Fly: @DianaScimone

Brandi, Social Heart Blog: @socialheart

Carol Fenton: @cfpdx

Greg Darley: @gregdarley

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times reporter: @nytimeskristof

Somaly Mam, The Somaly Mam Foundation: @somalymam

Seth Johnson, Transitions Global: @sethjohnson78

Stef, Nowhere2Hide: @nowhere2hide

Laura: @LaLaLives

Mae Potter: @maepotter

Amanda Kloer, Change.org blog: @endhumantraffic

Organizations

ECPATUSA: @ecpatUSA

FreeChains: @freechains

IJM: @IJMHQ

Not for Sale: @not_for_sale

Redlight Children: @redlightcc

SheDances: @shedances

The SOLD Project: @thesoldproject

Transitions Global: @transitions_g

This is by no means a comprehensive list. I follow a ton of people on Twitter that shine light on child/human trafficking all the time—this particular group just beats the drum pretty consistently (and has updated within the past month). I know there are hundreds more so feel free to leave your suggestions!

3 comments:

Alex Van Steen said...

One of the things that you do best has to do with keeping us all in the loop and connected. I really appreciate that about you. Thanks. Alex

Anonymous said...

Also great to Follow: Nosilencenow, Kyle Smith, Amber Smith, and Josh Mancuso

Psalm:36:9 said...

Thank you Alex! :) I love what you do over at http://hopeisa4letterword.blogspot.com.

I also want to recommend that people who are interested check out Diane Beeler's new list of human rights Twitterers to follow. You can see that here: http://itdawnedonme.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/human-rights-activists-on-twitter/ and you can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dianebeeler.

I'm looking forward to checking out the anonymous recommendations as well--so glad that someone left them!