Links 5-8-08

Crip Chick - 37th Disability Blog Carnival is posted. Wow, that’s alot of awesome reading!

Aiman - Poem I Am Sorry

Labyrinth Walk - Passes on the “E for Excellence” blog award to some wonderful bloggers, and to me. Shukran sister! Now I have to figure out how to put up that icon so I can pass it on, inshaAllah.

Saifuddin - Wisdom & Intellect

Anti-Racist Parent - Tools For Teaching in a Diversity-Free Zone

The Speak blog got a new look! And there are Action Opportunities added to the Speak Collective Action Blog daily. Please check out both.

 Quote for the day (via The Book Foundation):

Talk doesn’t cook rice.

Chinese Proverb

 

Combating Modern Day Slavery - Conference in April

Freedom Network USA 2008 Annual Conference
Action through Alliance: Partnerships in Combating Modern Day Slavery April 23rd & 24th in Atlanta, Georgia

Nationally Known Experts on Human Trafficking will be speaking on a variety of topics.

Workshops Include:

Best Practices: Cooperation Between Law Enforcement & Social Service Agencies
Effective Case Management: Accessing Public Benefits
Media Coverage of Human Trafficking
National Advocacy - Corporate Responsibility
Trafficking Trends: Minors, Domestic & International
Who should attend?

Legal advocates, victim advocates; social service providers; ethnic, faith-based and community-based organization members; local and federal law enforcement; governmental representatives and anyone else interested.
Interested and want more information? have a question? please contact cecilia@tapestri.org or see Freedom Network USA