Anne Keehn is the 2010 Zimmerman Fellow at Free the Slaves. Her experience in media and journalism includes a position as Managing Editor at Shepard Fairey's Swindle magazine, Community Manager at Mahalo, and intern extraordinaire at Haaretz.com. Before coming to Free the Slaves, Anne worked with the LA-based Coaltion to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. She is the founder and editor of the FTS Blog. anne.keehn@freetheslaves.net
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Free the Slaves co-founder Kevin Bales was on CNN last Friday. He was interviewed by Richard Quest about the state of slavery in the cocoa industry. Just over 10 years ago, in September 2001, Free the Slaves helped broker the historic Harkin-Engel Protocol. Otherwise known as the “Cocoa Protocol,” the agreement marked the first time in the 250-year history of the anti-slavery movement that a global industry took responsibility for... Read More
Here’s a surprising story that was in the news this week: Atlanta, Georgia. Third graders were presented with a math assignment with questions about slavery. Reports say that these questions were an attempt to “integrate social studies and math lessons.” But the result seems to be more offensive than educational. For instance, one assignment question was literally: “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally,... Read More
For more than a decade, fighting slavery has been a unified effort by both the democrats and republicans in the U.S. government. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, considered to be the cornerstone of anti-slavery legislation, passed into law in 2000. It was a groundbreaking law—the first federal legislation that tackled the issue of modern-day slavery in a comprehensive way. Since then, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act... Read More
The beginning of a new year always generates news stories about new laws taking effect. But this year, the list of new laws brings abolitionists something to cheer about. The California Supply Chain Transparency Act now requires all retailers and manufacturers doing business in California and grossing over $100 million globally, to disclose what they are doing to ensure that slavery does not exist in their supply chains. The law passed the Democratic-controlled... Read More
The Voices for Freedom event to benefit Free the Slaves is sold out of all pre-event tickets! Some may still be available at the door. But plan on getting there early. We’ll see you there next week! Read More
