Of Global Bondage

Human Trafficking and the Scourge of Contemporary Slavery

A discussion with David Batstone, USF Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and author of Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It.

MON 03.19 | 5:45PM USF Lone Mountain Campus (Room 100)
2800 Turk Blvd. (between Masonic & Parker), San Francisco

The UN estimates there are over 12 million people in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, and sexual servitude at any given time. While the horrors of slavery go mostly unnoticed in the developed world, consumers there unwittingly depend on this source of cheap labor. David Batstone has spent his career writing, lecturing, and campaigning for socially responsible business practices and against the plague of human trafficking. Batstone will talk about his new book Not For Sale, and the film Ghosts, a docudrama by British director Nick Broomfield focusing on the lives and deaths of Chinese migrant workers who enter indentured servitude to pay off those who smuggle them illegally into the UK. The trailer for the film will also be shown.

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP recommended. Please call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim Events RSVP Line at (415) 422-6828.

Co-sponsored by www.notforsalecampaign.org and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.