[Thinking-East] CA/NA - American bikes across Siberia to fight slavery

From the iAbolish e-newsletter...

This Saturday, May 28th, Andrej Mucic, an amateur cyclist and Home Depot employee, will embark on a journey of 7,000 miles over 100 days through Siberia, Russia. Andrej will bike through the harsh climate and abrasive terrain of the Siberian tundra in order to raise $10,000 to benefit the American Anti-Slavery Group. To donate, visit www.SiberiaRide.com.

His grueling course will begin at Magadan, known as the Portal to Hell, the notorious first stop on the way to the gulag slave camps of the Stalinist era. He will bike 1,000 miles over nearly impassable roads to Yakutsk and on to a remote village called Suntar, where roads vanish and maps are of little assistance. From there Andrej heads south to the Lena River and will follow a path along its northern bank for 1,000 miles. The road picks up again in Ust-Kut, and Andrej will continue along to his final destination in St. Petersburg. What motivates someone to undertake this tremendous challenge? Burning moral indignation against slavery, and a powerful motivation to support the work of AASG.

Check out www.SiberiaRide.com for more information and to support Andrej's Siberian Freedom Ride by making a donation.

As a small non-profit organization, the American Anti-Slavery Group relies on concerned individuals like you for financial support. Your donation is urgently needed to continue our work to abolish modern-day slavery. Below are just some of the projects your donation will support.

Slave Rescue : Through working with Christian Solidarity International, we are able to pay or barter for the release of slaves. $36 will cover the costs of a survival kit for a fomer slave; $50 will free a mother or child and feed them for a month; $100 will feed a family of five Sudanese refugees for two months. How many slaves will you rescue?

Empowering Survivors : We train and support former slaves from around the world to speak out about slavery at anywhere from Congressional hearings to high schools and universities across the U.S. These survivors need your support to get their message out.

Grassroots Activism: By organizing rallies, supporting Sudan divestment in state legislatures, raising awareness on university campuses, and petitioning foreign governments, we are leading the grassroots abolitionist movement in the U.S., but we need your contribution to strengthen this movement.

Please support the American Anti-Slavery group by contributing to Andrej's Siberian Freedom Ride. For information about modern-day slavery, visit Posted by Schwartz at May 31, 2005 07:44 PM | TrackBack