- Sara Kruzan -
Child sex-trafficking victim in a California prison.
Please call Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Harris this WEDNESDAY!
* New Information:
WE ARE NOW CALLING BOTH GOVERNOR BROWN AND
ATTORNEY GENERAL HARRIS
Phone #
Governor: 916.445.2841 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 916.445.2841 end_of_the_skype_highlighting hit 1, wait, hit 6
ATTORNEY GENERAL 916.322.3360 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 916.322.3360 end_of_the_skype_highlighting - hit 1, then you must listen to all 7 options, and at the end hit option 0 for "speak to staff" if there is no one available - hit * and then hit 7 to leave a voicemail.
If the person that answers the phone says: "Why don't you put it in writing and mail or email us the information....etc."
Simply say:
"We have already sent over 100 letters, faxes, emails and memos and HAVE NOT RECEIVED ONE REPLY. So no,....I want you to take this message verbally and have the Governor and the Attorney General release Sara Kruzan, a child victim of human trafficking, from prison this week."
2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME - THIS WEDNESDAY -
HELP A CHILD VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PLEASE.....Call (916) 445-2841 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    (916) 445-2841 end_of_the_skype_highlighting - HIT 1, WAIT, THEN HIT 6 to get directly to the Governor's office.
Sara Kruzan, a human trafficking victim who has been in prison for the last 17 years after she was coerced by 2 of her pimps competitors to kill the man who raped her at age 11 and forced her into prostitution at age 13. The video above is brief and will help you understand her case. Additional information is to the right and below on this webpage.
At 16 years old Sara was tried as an adult, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The California Supreme Court is reviewing Sara Kruzan's case this month and all of us need to (nicely) ask Governor Jerry Brown to immediately, and without condition release this child sex trafficking victim that has a job and family waiting for her.
Sara needs YOUR HELP THIS WEDNESDAY!!
Please call Governor Brown and ask him to grant Sara time served.
Here’s what to do:
1) Call Governor Brown (916) 445-2841 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    (916) 445-2841 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
2) Express your support for granting of clemency to Sara Kruzan. Feel free to personalize your message and share your own story if you have one — the more personal, the better.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A SHORT VIDEO FROM SARA PLEASE GO TO:
http://stopslavery2012.com/sarakruzanwednesday.html
Sara and her Aunt in 2011
Governor Brown ,
In 1978 you were 3 years into your first term as Governor of the Golden
State,......and Sara Kruzan had not yet been born.
Fast forward 16 years...........1994
You had a radio show that among other topics, focused on the inequity in our
criminal justice system and your aim to CHANGE it. At that same time Sara, who was now 16, had been repeatedly raped for five
years by men three times her age, sold for sex, beaten and tortured.
Fast Forward 16 years............2011
You are again the leader of one of the greatest states in our great nation. Sara sits in a prison cell in the state of
Former-governor Schwarzenegger recently commuted Sara's sentence but did not
release her from her prison cell, which quite honestly makes no sense to us at
all.
As President Abraham Lincoln stated so eloquently:
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
The members of CHANGE.ORG hereby
request you correct this criminal justice inequity for this one particular case
and use it as a catalyst to re-evaluate how our society handles the inequities
child victims of human trafficking (slavery) face in
Governor Jerry Brown:
It's 2011, please immediately, without hesitation or conditions, release Sara
Kruzan from prison and help us all CHANGE THE WORLD!
peace,
phil cenedella
executive director
national association of human trafficking victim advocates
www.stopslavery2011.com
888.206.3264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    888.206.3264 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
7-2-11
Dear Gov. Brown,
After 4 months of faxing, calling and emailing, I would really appreciate you
reading the attached article from yesterday’s Sacramento Bee, then viewing
Sara's short video onwww.stopslavery2011.com and
then giving her the FREEDOM us Californians know she deserves, …prior to my
birthday this Thursday.
I am available over the Independence Day weekend to answer any questions. I
have been in contact with Chip Flaherty from the Cal. AG office here in
I will do anything to help you make the right, and the historic decision: Immediately and without consideration release Sara Kruzan from Chowchilla
prison.
peace,
phil cenedella
executive director
national association of human trafficking victim advocates
888-206-3264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    888-206-3264 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
619-886-1465 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    619-886-1465 end_of_the_skype_highlighting cell
p.s. Sara has been offered a job with our national association that will start
immediately upon her release, hopefully before this Thursday.
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Sign the FREE SARA KRUZAN petition to help get this child-victim of human trafficking released from prison by Governor Jerry Brown of California. The Governor's phone: 916.445.2841 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    916.445.2841 end_of_the_skype_highlighting ext. 1 and then ext. 6. For more informationplease click here.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT FOR THE DEAF/HEARING IMPAIRED:
In school, I excelled. I was on the honor roll, the principal's honor roll. I
was an overachiever. I ran track. I ran for student body president.
I wrote a book on drugs and it's effects and I won a young author award.
G.G. would start to take me or my little friends to rollerskating or to the
mall. He was like a father-figure.
G.G. was there ... sometimes. And he would talk to me and take me out and give
me all of these lavish gifts or do all these things for me. And he would tell
me "sex wise, you don't know need to give it up for free." He would
try and put in my head all of these different things and how men really think
and how men are. So, I would believe him.
He had sex with me when I was 13 and um, he's a very ... he uses his
"manhood" to hurt ... like break you in, I guess.
G.G.'s hours were from
Everything, everything was his.
The judge sat up there and I remember my lawyer saying that he wanted to ask
for me to be sentenced as a juvenile since YA (Youth Authority) had found me
immunable and susceptible to the treatment. Um, but the judge said that because
of my crime, that it was well-thought out, I deserved life without...
That means, I'm going to die here.
I definitely know I deserve punishment. I mean, you don't just take someone's
life and think it's okay.
So yes, I definitely deserve punishment. How much? I don't know. Everyday is
something that is not going to ever go away.
I'm very sorry to take his life like that.
I've always tried to educate myself though... in far as reading books and
things like that. I didn't think I could excel. Who wants to excel in prison? I
mean, be all you can be is not much.
My guess is my little heart would tell me that I was worth more.
My judge had told me I lacked moral scruples and I understand that. I had no
clue what morals were and no clue what scruples meant. So I had to find that in
the dictionary and put the two together. So "integrity" and
"honesty" and all of these things i needed to learn. I went ahead and
started to build this.
At a parole building, I would want to tell them that first of all, I have
learned what moral scruples are. Second, everyday is a challenge and i realize
that i found an ability to believe in myself and i have a lot of good to offer.
Now, the person i am today, at 29, I believe I could set a positive example.
I'm very determined to show that no matter what you've done or what you've come
from or what you've experienced in life, it's up to you to change.
National Human Trafficking Victim Hotline.... +1.888.373.7888
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey the Village Voice executives are considered by many to be the leading human trafficker-enablers in America.
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Someday, an organization will come along that will have the courage to fight human trafficking on all fronts, no matter who it offends. Someday, the victims of human trafficking will have an ally that is brave enough to stand up to the criminals perpetrating these crimes and the corporations who are deeply complicit in them. That day is now.
National Association of Human Trafficking Victim Advocates
phone: +1.888.206.3264 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +1.888.206.3264 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
email: info@stopslavery2012.com
www.stopslavery2012.com
Europe: 011-31-(0)-639.641.975
Quotes:
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"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not
the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that
is already alive."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I always felt like a criminal. I never felt like a victim at all. Victims don't do time in jail, they work on the healing process. I was a criminal because I spent time in jail."
"Tonya" - survivor
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"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."
-Mother Teresa
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"It is our time to be the voice and the light for those who suffer in lonely darkness."
Shalra Musabih, United Hope UAE,
"The Mother Theresa of Dubai"
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"We always looked at them as prostitutes, we’d arrest them and lock them up. We
now see them as victims being exploited."
- Sgt. Nick Battaglia of the San Jose
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“You can’t buy a child at Wal-Mart, can you?” she asked me. “No, but you can go to Backpage and buy me on #Backpage - @nickkristof
Take Action: add your name to this important petitionTell Village Voice Media to Stop Child Sex Trafficking on their site.
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FREE SARA KRUZAN!
Please click here for a short video by Sara Kruzan
Click here for the Writ on her Supreme Court case
Please click here for instructions on how to be involved with the FREE SARA KRUZAN photo project by Elizabeth O'Hara,...
and
Please click here for the current photo gallery - which is amazing!
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