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Dearest SuperForesters,

Throughout the years, SuperForest has done much to bring attention to many issues ranging from saving seeds to saving dolphins. Along the way, we’ve had the privelege of meeting and collaborating with pretty incredible people and organizations that are each making major contributions to the planet’s wellbeing. Today, I write to you about our most recent addition to the SuperForest family. An organization that is inspiring beyond belief, that takes on an institution in our human civilization that many are blind to, an organization called Free the Slaves.

Funny enough, I think my first introduction to this organization came sometime in early March in the form of a sweatshirt. SuperForesters Nika, Susan, Chris, Iman, and I were busy helping getting things prepared for the Feeding the Soul Benefit Concert when we noticed SuperForester Tawney enter wearing a Frida sweatshirt that had the word SLAVES written in big block text. Obviously, I didn’t get the witty wordplay because I didn’t really think much of it and assumed it to be some sort of feminist message. It wasn’t until we got home that Iman and Chris figured it out…”Fri-da Slaves”.

As time progressed, I learned more and more about the organization (and that although it does promote strong and free women, it isn’t primarily a feminist movement). I learned that Free the Slaves is a not for profit organization with a very simple and straightforward mission: ending slavery. The system by which they accomplish this involves working on the ground with liberators from around the world, and not only freeing men, women, and children from slavery, but carefully assessing the situations that led them to being enslaved in the first place and working to ensure that once a slave is liberated, they remain free. A system they call, “sustainable freedom”. There is no denying the fact that what they’re doing is absolutely incredible. And consequently, there is no denying that the people behind such an organization are equally as incredible.

SuperForester Tawney Bevacqua is one of those people and after she emailed us describing the work she’s been doing to spread the knowledge of this organization, I knew instantaneously that this was something SuperForest had to get involved with. As a result, Tawney is going to be contributing to SuperForest from time to time giving us stories, updates, and information on how each of us can participate with this organization.

A big thank you goes out to Tawney from all of us here at SuperForest for sharing some of her work and her knowledge. I think I’ve only met her in-person once, but that’s the thing about Tawney, a brief encounter is all it takes to see her kindness, understand her sincerity, and know that she is a woman that is accomplishing great things in this planet.

In the post that follows, you’ll be able to read some of Tawney’s first hand experiences with the Free the Slaves organization, a bit of background on the issue of slavery today, and of course, what we SuperForesters can do to help.

In kinship,

Team SuperForest