Kevin Bales
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Bales discusses the definition of slavery, how the population explosion has transformed slavery in the modern age, and how changing the patterns of global demand can effectively increase the value of human beings.
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Rights |
2009 |
Kate Kendell
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Since the 1970s, the LGBT movement has made strides in protection and fairness in communities across the country. Despite these accomplishments, Kendall raises the passage of California's Prop. 8 as a prime example of how far we still have to go.
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Rights |
2009 |
Ali Noorani
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Our current immigration policy has resulted in a humanitarian crisis caused not by a force of nature but by our own government. Noorani proposes a path for fixing our immigration system and shares how progressives can help.
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Rights |
2009 |
Malika Saada Saar
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Over 85% of women behind bars were first victims of sexual or other physical violence; the cradle-to-prison pipeline for disadvantaged men parallels a pipeline from birth to sexual violence to the criminal justice system for women at the margins. Saar insists that the voices of marginalized, invisible, and forgotten women are critical to the reproductive justice movement.
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Rights |
2009 |
