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 The Grace College Fall 2008 summer read has been chosen… and it is a good one. Not for Sale.
We will also be bringing the author to campus to speak in chapel (Sept. 24th): David Batston
Bono refers to David Batstone as a “heroic character”. A professor of ethics at the University of San Francisco who started his “career” guarding Salvadorian pastors and literacy teachers from death squads, Batstone was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and is the founder of social venture firm, Right Reality. He writes regularly in USA Weekend edition as “America’s Ethics Guru.” He traveled around the world investigating the slave trade before writing Not For Sale, the book associated with this campaign.
It should be an eye-opening experience for us here at Grace College. I am really excited about this….After reading the book and finding a person highlighted from Bangkok, I made contact with them and the team I am leading there in June will get to meet with Night Light Design—an organization started by Annie Dieselberg to bring young women out of prostitution and sex trade and bring them to Christ.
It is hard to believe that slavery still exists today… BUT IT DOES!
Listen to how David Batstone got involved:
“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, NFS co-founder
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