"Falling Whistles" movement coming to Nashville and Belmont UMC

Save the Date!!!
Sunday, August 31
6-7:30 pm
new Community Center at Belmont UMC

Sean Carasso will be in Nashville sharing his story, informing the community about life in the Congo today and inviting people to join in a movement of justice.

Come, listen, see, pray and share.

Information about "Falling Whistles":
"Laying in Titu Prison, these 5 boy-prisoners first told me of the whistleblowers.

Abducted in Congo and too small even to carry a gun, boys were given merely a whistle and sent to the front lines of battle.
The sound of their whistles calling together was meant to frighten the enemy away. Failing that, their sole duty was to receive the bullets with their bodies. With falling whistles, their only choice was to feign death, or face it.

The whistle became a symbol of the level of injustice in Congo. The haunting image of whistles falling from palm sized hands pushed me forward.

It wasn't until I returned home that I realized - there in Congo a whistleblower is a victim of injustice, but here in the West, a whistleblower is someone who calls out injustice.

Possessed within this single symbol was both problem and response.

Around the world, the sound of a whistle demands STOP. PAY ATTENTION.
Demand the same from your friends and family. Become a whistleblower for the war in Congo. Injustice cannot exist when millions of people call it out.

Together we'll stand even as they fell, and use what was once their only weapon as our voice to fight for their freedom.

FALLING WHISTLES - THEIR WEAPON, OUR VOICE"


Sean Carasso is an avid adventurer who has dedicated his life to helping young people around the world.

After co-founding two youth camps, he traveled extensively with John Paul DeJoria, while working alongside groundbreaking organizations such as Invisible Children and Toms Shoes.

Sean recently returned from 2 months in the war-zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His investigation brought him into rebel basecamps, illegal prisons for children, and ultimately the signing of an International Peace Treaty.

His blogs from Congo were read by multitudes of people, leading him to compile them in the soon to be released book, Falling Whistles.

He currently lives in Los Angeles and is working on a television series that examines the innovative ways in which millennial's are changing our world.