Week Six Read A Crime So Monstrous by Ben Skinner, as an exercise in information gathering. It’s one of the best books I’ve read on human trafficking, as he documents his journey to learn more about the new slave trade. It began as a journalistic endeavor: “Before I met those slaves and those traffickers, I …
Here’s a Q&A session with Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In case you haven’t read my previous post on Van Jones and green jobs, here it is. And here’s a video clip of Van at Sojourners’ Mobilization to End Poverty conference back …
Laura Ling and Euna Lee returned home to the US, flying into Burbank this morning. Article from MSNBC. Video coverage from CNN of their arrival. Article from Huffington Post. President Obama’s statement.
News LA Police Chief William Bratton is stepping down after seven years at the helm. Human trafficking INTERPOL rescues 54 child slaves in West Africa. A new Underground Railroad: modern day Harriet Tubmans in Iraq. Life as a slave … in Britain. An article from 2001, going inside the sweatshops of Los Angeles. Green Nissan …