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Keturah Scott: keturah (at) notforsalecampaign dot org
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David Batstone on CBS: “Eye to Eye with Katie Couric”
Finding Slavery in Your Own Backyard… and Deploying Solutions to Abolish It
David Batstone ─ Professor of Business at University of San Francisco, entrepreneur, author, and social activist ─ founded the nonprofit Not For Sale when he discovered human slavery in his own back yard.
“I read in a local paper that one of my favorite Indian restaurants in the Bay Area had been trafficking women from India to wash dishes, cook meals and other tasks. The story came out when a young woman, Chianti Pratipatta died of a gas leak in an unventilated apartment owned by the proprietor of the restaurant, who forced Chianti and others into slavery under threat of reporting their illegal presence to the authorities.
This was happening in my country at a restaurant I frequented. My shock turned into a consuming passion that took me around the world to learn more about how slavery flourishes in the shadows.
I also learned about the solutions. I met heroes. Modern-day abolitionists fighting trafficking and slavery on the front lines. And I knew I had to do something. The Not for Sale Campaign combines technology, intellectual capital, abolitionist groups and a growing network of individuals like yourself – joined together to end slavery in our lifetime”. -David Batstone

