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FTS Film Spreads Word about Slavery throughout Africa

by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 4, 2016 | Advocacy, Artists Against Slavery, Congo, FTS Model for Freedom, Thought Leadership

The film’s name is short and straightforward: Hatuko Watumwa, Swahili for We Are Not Slaves. It’s a half-hour fictionalization of how vulnerable villagers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fall into slavery at mines – at what they can do to escape. FTS and our...

Free the Slaves is Making Movies to Inspire Social Change

by Terry FitzPatrick | May 8, 2015 | Artists Against Slavery, Congo, FTS Model for Freedom, FTS Updates

Imagine this scene in remote town in the Congo. A van pulls up and workers jump out to erect a giant screen. At sunset, a movie starts to play in the village square. In a community without electricity, people gather to watch the spectacle, transfixed by a story on the...

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