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Ron Soodalter in HuffPo: Support California Supply Chain Bill
Ron Soodalter, co-author (with Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales) of The Slave Next Door has posted a piece on Huffington Post, calling for support of the California Transparency in Supply Chains...
View ArticleDomestic Workers ‘Most Vulnerable’ to Slavery
U.S. Anti Trafficking Ambassador Luis CdeBaca gave an eloquent speech on modern slavery yesterday, at a special symposium titled “Slavery: Through the Eyes of George Washington”, hosted by Free the...
View ArticleNYT on Cincinnati’s Freedom Center
We recently reported on the first ever permanent museum exhibit on modern slavery. The exhibition is at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. And Free the Slaves is...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Modern Slavery in U.S.
A great article on modern slavery in the U.S. came out this week on The Prisma website. Written by Carolina Cositore, the piece sites Free the Slaves (thanks for the shout out!), and refers to the book...
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EEOC says U.S. Labor Laws are ‘New Frontier’ in Fight Against Slavery
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) put out a press release saying the “new frontier” in labor trafficking will be employment discrimination laws. In their book on slavery in the...
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Attention Educators: How to Teach Kids About Modern Slavery
On Saturday, it will be Lincoln’s birthday. It is normal for American school children to learn that President Lincoln ended legalized slavery in the U.S. with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It...
View ArticleKevin Bales on ‘One-on-One’: U.S. Could be First Slave-Free Country
Kevin Bales was recently interviewed by María Hinojosa for her show “One-on-One.” They discuss modern-day slavery in the U.S., and refer to The Slave Next Door, the book Bales co-wrote on this topic...
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mtvU Tells “The Backstory” of Modern Slavery
There are reasons young people end up in slavery today. We’re all vulnerable to harm, one way or another, at one point or another. Traffickers spot these weaknesses, and pounce when they see an...
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Auction of Lincoln Chair and Documents to Benefit FTS
These days, we’re used to the image of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a marble chair – at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. But another Lincoln chair is about to capture the public’s attention. It’s the...
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Remembering Harriet Tubman on International Women’s Day
Early March includes two key dates that remind us of the importance of women in the struggle for human rights. Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day, a global observance of the contributions...
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