by Terry FitzPatrick | Apr 9, 2012 | Take Action
You may eat sustainable food. You probably support green building. You likely recycle, compost, and buy local. But what about sustainable people? What about the tie between fair trade and human rights? And how close it all is to home? If you’re in Berkeley on April 20...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Mar 19, 2012 | Slavery in the News
CNN’s team produced a moving 23-minute documentary and companion article featuring FTS co-founder Kevin Bales, who traveled undercover to Mauritania for his groundbreaking book Disposable People. CNN’s documentary coverage is a rare look into a little-covered corner...
by Free the Slaves | Feb 10, 2012 | FTS Updates
Dear Colleagues and Friends along the Journey — I had the luxury of swimming in wonderful memories this morning. Memories that are sweet; transcendent even. Memories of hard work and fear and triumph. Memories of being brought to my knees by the sheer grace and...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 25, 2012 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
Free the Slaves co-founder Kevin Bales was on CNN last Friday. He was interviewed by Richard Quest about the state of slavery in the cocoa industry. Just over 10 years ago, in September 2001, Free the Slaves helped broker the historic Harkin-Engel Protocol. Otherwise...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 23, 2011 | Slavery in the News
For the past several weeks, one of the world’s major 24-hour news channels, Al Jazeera English, has been airing investigative documentaries on modern-day slavery. The network wraps-up its series on Thanksgiving Day with a town-hall debate on whether enough is being...