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                          THIS WEEK AT BRANDEIS
             Student Union Announcements for August 30, 2009
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Stuff to Do...
  B1.  FREE THE SLAVES: Talk by Modern-day Abolitionist Kevin Bales


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B1.  FREE THE SLAVES: Talk by Modern-day Abolitionist Kevin Bales
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September 2, 2009 - 07:00PM             Main Library, Rapaporte-Treasure

A lecture and discussion with Dr. Kevin Bales, one of the world's
leading experts on modern slavery and human trafficking. Bales
estimates that at this moment, twenty-seven million slaves—more than
twice the number of people taken from Africa during the 350 years of
the African slave trade—toil in rich and poor countries around the
world, their forced labor providing consumers with dozens of ordinary
products. In this Social Justice Leadership Series inaugural event,
Bales will share the ideas and insights that can finally lead to
slavery’s extinction and will engage the Brandeis community in an
enlightening discussion not only about his groundbreaking work in the
antislavery movement, but also about the unique path that led him to be
an outspoken abolitionist. Bales is President of Free the Slaves, the
U.S. sister organization of Anti-Slavery International (the world's
oldest human rights organization); he is the winner of numerous
international humanitarian awards, and his book Disposable People: New
Slavery in the Global Economy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

                 Contact: Jonah M. Seligman <jonahsel -AT- brandeis.edu>


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