New Orleans The argument changes when the global economy acquires a human face. Rarely has that been clearer than in two recent stories, one about a Filipino nanny in New York City and the other tracing the descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown University to their graveyards and relatives in Louisiana. We talk about the …
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Jindal “No Go!”
New Orleans It’s not often that almost everyone agrees on something throughout the land and perhaps the globe, but Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal, formerly a Republican presidential hopeful, has truly succeeded in bringing everyone together. He did so with his crazy, controversial remarks to a conservative group in London named after former Senator Henry Jackson …
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
New Orleans At the Fair Grinds Dialogue , Stephanie Hepburn, co-author of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight, led us through the hall of horrors of forced labor and the little that is done about it around the world. She and Rita Simon had amassed stories and studies from twenty-four countries to …