- -: Children for Sale: Slave Trade Just Five Hours from NYC
May 6, 2009 (about 4 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/26/E_Benjamin_Skinner_Face-to-Face_with_Modern-Day_Slavery E. Benjamin Skinner, journalist and author of A Crime So Monstrous, explains that while slavery may seem like a distant problem, people in New York "are some five hours from being able to negotia...
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- -: Making Child Sex Trafficking More Risky
September 9, 2009 (almost 4 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Sex_Trafficking_A_Global_Phenomenon Cortney Rhoads Stapleton, PR director for RedLight Children, outlines the campaign's plan to fight child exploitation by increasing deterrents and upping the risks involved for those involved in international sex tr...
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- -: Cocoa Protocol: Helping to End Child Labor in West Africa
September 17, 2009 (almost 4 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/RIGHTS_Kevin_Bales_on_Ending_Slavery_and_Human_Trafficking Kevin Bales, author of The Slave Next Door, discusses how the Cocoa Protocol is helping to eradicate child labor in West Africa's cocoa industry. "It's the first time in history that an entire...
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- -: Sex Slave Changes Activist's Life - Kevin Bales
September 24, 2009 (over 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/RIGHTS_Kevin_Bales_on_Ending_Slavery_and_Human_Trafficking Kevin Bales, author of the Slave Next Door, recalls a life-changing epiphany that occurred over a meal of "jumping shrimp" with a young Thai sex worker. "She opened up a window on horror and t...
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- -: Does Pop Culture Turn Us Into Consumer Slaves? - Stephen Sewell
February 26, 2010 (over 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/09/Popular_Culture_Weve_Seen_the_Future_and_Its_Junk Screenwriter Stephen Sewell rails against the social effects of consumerism, stating that modern pop culture serves to "enslave" people in a endless cycle of insatiable desire. "Popular culture isn't c...
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- -: How the Sex Trafficking Industry Is Evolving - Lydia Cacho
September 3, 2010 (almost 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/Lydia_Cacho_Goes_Undercover_in_the_Global_Sex_Trade Investigative journalist Lydia Cacho traces the increasing sophistication of sex traffickers, who she describes as having gone from simply abducting girls and women to "creating a pop culture of por...
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- -: Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion
December 22, 2010 (over 2 years ago)Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/10/Sam_Harris_Can_Science_Determine_Human_Values Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, discusses the shortcomings of organized religion as a guide for human morality...
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- -: Christopher Hitchens: How Religion Is Like North Korea
August 26, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/05/10/Christopher_Hitchens_at_Politics_and_Prose In this highlight from May 2007, noted atheist Christopher Hitchens compares monotheistic belief to a despotic dictatorship -- similar to his observations of North Korea under Kim Jong Il. The key difference,...
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- -: The Confederacy Politics Behind the Slave Trade
August 31, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_2011_video_sampler Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Gordon Wood explains that while the end of the international slave trade is commonly viewed as the first step towards abolition, it actually served to bolster the domestic slave trade....
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John C. Calhoun: The Clay Compromise Measures
March 4, 1850 (over 163 years ago)John C. Calhoun shares his thoughts and opinions about the issue on slavery that ultimately may result to the disunion of the northern and southern parts of the United States.
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