ACU Red Thread Movement and International Justice Mission introduced Liberty in North Korea during a special Chapel in Hart auditorium last Friday. Liberty in North Korea is a California-based nonprofit organization that works with North Korean people to promote and accelerate change. The group rescues and provides resettlement support to North ... [Read More…]
Red Thread raises awareness with fashion
The Red Thread Fashion Show will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday downtown at the Windsor Hotel for the fifth straight year. The fashion show partners with Eternal Threads, and its purpose is to raise awareness and funds to help end sex trafficking in Nepal. The theme of this year's show is "Power Through the Red" with the hashtag #EndIt. ... [Read More…]
Red Thread schedules events for semester
The Red Thread organization will host two events later this semester to promote social awareness of world injustice. Maggie Amerine, a high school senior from Abilene, collaborated with Abbey Moses, sophomore political science major from Abilene and president of Red Thread and others to host the 5K run after spending the summer volunteering with ... [Read More…]
Pura Vida supports Red Thread with selfies
Morris and Mitchell has teamed up with Pura Vida to raise money for the Red Thread Movement. Pura Vida has agreed to work with the student-run advertising agency to support Red Thread by donating $1 for every red lipstick selfie taken using Pura Vida's hashtag. "We used Pura Vida's color brand, red, and being bold as our trademark and ... [Read More…]
In the RED Fashion Show to raise awareness, combat sex trafficking
The third annual In the RED Fashion Show will take place April 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Windsor Hotel and will raise money to fight sex trafficking in Nepal. The theme for this year's show is "Fight for Freedom with Fashion." The event will raise funds for the Red Thread Movement, an initiative of Eternal Threads, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sex ... [Read More…]
Justice Week to host authors, slam poets
Social justice organizations across campus are partnering together in creating the seventh annual week-long event, Justice Week, which will take place April 1-6. International Justice Mission, Wishing Well, Red Thread Movement, Locavores and the Students' Association have pooled their resources to bring in prominent speakers and host events they ... [Read More…]
Partridge receives prestigious scholarship
An ACU senior was awarded the Marshall Scholarship last semester, one of the nation's most prestigious academic honors. Brittany Partridge, political science major from Annandale, Minn., was awarded a two-year scholarship with intent to study International Foreign Policy and Countering Organized Crime and Terrorism at University College in London. ... [Read More…]
Zeta Rho teams with Red Thread for gala
The recently recharted Zeta Rho opted out of a formal this year and chose to have its first Red Thread Gala this weekend as a fundraising opportunity. The charity event took place at the Abilene Country Club Friday evening and featured a catered dinner and silent auction. The night included words from Red Thread co-founder, Samantha Sutherland, ... [Read More…]
The making of a movement
Two years ago, I was beginning my first year at ACU. My potluck roommate, Brittany Partridge, junior political science major from Annandale, Minn., and I were looking to get involved somewhere and began volunteering two days a week at the Eternal Threads warehouse downtown. What started with hours of burning DVDs and importing data into a computer ... [Read More…]