Sorry for the lack of updates… zero internet= zero posts!

So we’re having a bit of a technology problem…

• Our GPS is intermittent at best.
• Our main filming light completely died.
• Jay’s digital camera car conked.
• Internet down at every single Starbucks we tried to visit.

Accordingly, some tech prayer would be great!  

Spent a great day on Parliament Hill…learned some interesting facts about the past leaders.

About to head into our first interview in Montreal.

Talk to you soon,

Jay

Ps…Michelle first video post is up at hopeforthesold.com.

Welcome to the all-video Wednesday Weekly Wire.  I want you to PRAYERFULLY and CONSCIOUSLY watch the last video and read the article.  This world is FALLING APART.  And it’s killing me.  Let’s change it please.

Is this a joke or for real?!!

Ants create a lifeboat…

Greatest news re-enactment ever!

I would LOVE to see how they started practicing for this!

365 Days in the Life of a Retreating Glacier

Man rapes and forces teenager into prostitution. After years of rape and abuse, she kills him. Gets life in prison without parole.

See the full story here…and then begin to think about what we can do to help. Where Justice and Mercy Meet.

Would love to hear from you this week. Feel free to connect on Facebook, Twitter, or through the Chate Line.

Love you all,

Jay

New INSPIRED post by Michelle Redemptions the Word, My Girls!

As many of you know, my wife and I started an organization a few years ago to raise awareness about sex trafficking.  It’s called Hope For the Sold, and our work is part of what we hope will one day be a sexual revolution.  That’s why today I’m excited to make a very special announcement about it here on the Sex Rev.

Sex Trafficking has gained alot of exposure lately, thanks to movies such as Trade and Taken.

Obviously, the rape-for-pay industry is massive on a global scale.

Remember those two journalists that Bill Clinton rescued from North Korea?  Did you ever wonder why they were sentenced to over a decade of hard labour? They were doing investigative journalism on sex trafficking along the Chinese-North Korean border.

But it’s much closer than you think.  It’s a big problem in the United States and Canada, and it’s just about to get bigger.

Next year, the Olympics will be held in Vancouver, B.C.  Millions of eyes will watch the best athletes in the world compete for the gold.  But the untold story of the Olympics is the thousands of women who will be trafficked into Canada to service the ‘needs’ of the tens of thousands of Johns who are more than willing to pay for rape.

Traffickers will soon be penetrating our borders on a massive scale and will soon realize how lax Canadian sex trafficking laws are. (they’re basically non-existent.) We’re expecting to see a huge surge in the number of trafficked women.

Already, there are 100s of trafficked women within 50 miles of where I live.  Guelph. KW. Hamilton. Toronto. Niagara Falls.

We’re guessing it’s the same across the country, and we’re going to find out.

On a grant from the Millennium Scholarship Foundation, Michelle and I will embark on a 10,000+km roadtrip across Canada in September to film a documentary on sex trafficking.

We’ll be meeting with Members of Parliament, reporters, authors, police, and advocates…recording their stories and gathering information to then share what’s actually going on in this country.

Our major stops will be in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver… we’d love to meet up with as many of you as possible along the way!

Along with the documentary film, we’ll also be releasing a white paper report on sex trafficking in Canada, as well as renovating www.hopeforthesold.com too.  We’ll be adding a blog so we can start a huge conversation about this issue.

We’re very excited to be undertaking such a huge project, and I hope that you’ll join us in preparing our country for all that organized crime has in store for us.

So what can you do?

Contacts:
We’ve already arranged quite a few great interviews, but the more the better.  If you have family/friend/work connections and could get us in to quickly meet with powerful people in this field, please set that up.
Please send the details to Michelle.  You can either Facebook message Michelle or connect with her via Twitter at @MichelleABrock

Creativity:
We’d love the help of a few creatives to help design and code the website and blog, as well as design a Twitter background for the HFTS account.  We’ll need someone skilled at graphic design to make a paper report look pretty. Also, a few good video editors will be needed later on.  Please send me your contact info with a link to your portfolio. You can connect with me via Facebook message or on Twitter at @jaybrock.

Donations and Sponsorships:
Please only consider giving if you can afford to do so- I know this year has been tough for a lot of people.  If you would like to support, it’s very much appreciated…we have alot of extra expenses, including gas, accomodations, gear, food, etc.
We’re only a non-profit so you won’t get a tax receipt, but I promise that you will get a very nice thank-you card! And of course, we’ll put your name/company website on our site if you so choose.

Please make cheques payable to: C/O Jared or Michelle Brock

Mail to:
Hope For the Sold
P.O 73007
Hamilton, ON
L9A 5H7

Thanks so much for reading this lengthy message.  Please share it with your friends.  Once the site and blog are reno’d, I’ll send out another message for you to start following the journey from there.

I’m glad your a part of Hope For the Sold.  Hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, and I’m so grateful that together we can change the world in a big way.

Jay
HopeFortheSold.com

I went to the Ukraine last night.

Not actually, but it sure felt like it!  Michelle and I were in Toronto at a place called the KUMF Gallery, hosted by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Toronto. (can you say mouthful?!)  It was a very cool experience…to think that half the people in the room were born in another country and yet still manage to share community halfway across the globe is so cool to me!

The reason we were there- the book release party for Victor Malarek, author of The Natashas and investigative journalist with W-FIVE.  The event was great- nice venue, free wine/cheese/fruit, and tons of people- they set up 36 chairs and close to 200 people showed up!  It weird to me how little security there is in Canada- Michelle and I were seated directly behind 3 Members of Parliament- Joy Smith, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, and Olivia Chow.  Also present were leaders in the anti-sex-trafficking community including the heads of Help Us Help the Children and Canada Fights Human Trafficking. It was a great opportunity for Michelle to network and get new contacts and meet some cool people.  She was bouncing off the (car) walls the whole way home!

The book was called “The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It.”  Amazing book about the ‘demand’ side of prostitution.

Some lines that really stood out:

“Demand is fueled by ‘da man’…one word describes this industry- ENTITLEMENT.  They think the girl wants them, and that because they accepted money, they deserve to rent this woman’s body”

“Some people argue that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession.  It’s also the world’s biggest oppression of women.”

“This is a worldwide femicide”

“Stop accepting the cliches- boys can no longer just be boys.”

“Cash is the ultimate conscience-pacifier.”

“Legalization is not the answer- it just creates more demand which causes traffickers to go hunting for more supply.  While the Netherlands might be ‘fun’ for some, it’s full of crime, abuse, and violence towards women.”

“We need to target boys.  It stops there.  If we can change the way they view women and sexuality, which has been destroyed because of pornography, we can end trafficking, because we end demand.”

“Attention computer hackers- you want to put your skills to good use and help change the world? Start burying worms and trojans in porn sites.”

I LOVE how he put the blame where the blame is due- on men.  We fuel this thing, we support this thing, we are the demand.  And it’s destroying over 1 million women each year.  It must stop.  This book will show us how.

Jay

Other posts for you today:

For Guys: “Men Miss Heaven’s Glory on the Road to Earth’s Fame”

For Couples: “3 Signs that Trust is Growing in Your Marriage”

For Girls: “Which Girl are You: The Glassy Calm or the Stormy Sea?”

Check back tomorrow for video blog Part 3 of 4 on How to Start and Grow Your Blog.  I’ll be explaining how I ‘manage to manage’ 5 1/2 blogs!  I’ll also be announcing a free giveaway for next Wednesday.  Have a great weekend!