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Whitworth students to celebrate anti-trafficking efforts with block party

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The Associated Students of Whitworth University will be celebrating their year-long efforts against human trafficking by hosting a fundraising for Lutheran Community Services Northwest next month. 

The event will include benefit concerts by Barcelona and He Is We, small stage performances by local artists, and outdoor games, such as a basketball tournament and relay race, according to a press release.

For the 2012-2013 school year, ASWU decided to stand behind an anti-human trafficking movement called UNITE, which, according to a press release, aimed to educate communities about human trafficking and empower them to collectively advocate while creating long-term change within the Pacific Northwest.

The movement involved students by hosting an 'Ellen DeGeneres' challenge by writing letters to publicize the issue. UNITE will also soon be releasing a video to spotlight the issue of human trafficking, which features Whitworth students.

The Spokane Block Party will take place  May 4 from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Service Station,  9315 N. Nevada St.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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