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	<title>John C. Bersia: Unraveling Global Issues of Today &#038; Tomorrow &#187; Slavery</title>
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		<title>Facing down the scourge of slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2011/02/01/interview-with-francis-bok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Francis Bok]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Bok is the author of the first contemporary slave narrative, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America. Now an abolitionist with the American Anti-Slavery Group, he discussed 21st century human trafficking with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

Q: Human trafficking is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One ex-slave fights for a brighter day for victims of human trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/10/07/one-ex-slave-fights-for-a-brighter-day-for-victims-of-human-trafficking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the voiceless people on Earth, I can think of few more unfortunate than the multitudes &#8212; mostly women and children &#8212; who toil as modern-day slaves. They typically suffer cruelty, deprivation of their rights and unspeakable living conditions. And they face only two certainties, both unpleasant: that they will wake up tomorrow to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery still exists, and Obama needs to address it</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/05/08/slavery-still-exists-and-obama-needs-to-address-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. &#8211; Facing the old slave market from the sea, you can try to imagine what it was like to arrive here as a captive in the 1500s, with a future of forced servitude as your fate. You can try, but you can never grasp the totality of the horror. In those long-gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A strategy for ending slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/12/08/a-strategy-for-ending-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Bales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President-elect Barack Obama uttered the word &#8220;slavery&#8221; in a historical reference during his post-election acceptance speech, I could not avoid making a connection to modern victims of forced servitude around the world.
Slavery is not a relic of the past. Indeed, the problem &#8211; also known as human trafficking &#8211; has reached epidemic proportions, subjugating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belt-tightening starts with Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/11/10/belt-tightening-starts-with-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/11/10/belt-tightening-starts-with-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has already demonstrated a sensible impulse: to make haste slowly as he prepares to tackle the nation&#8217;s pressing issues in a pro-active, bipartisan manner. His next steps will be most effective if they captivate, inspire, energize and assist Americans.
Obama has no choice about the No. 1 priority, the economy. He cannot avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 steps to ending slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/04/28/5-steps-to-ending-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Bales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The slaves who once stared with terror at prospective buyers in the covered market here in America&#8217;s oldest city may be long gone, but tens of millions of their 21st-century brethren wear similar desperate expressions all over the world, including in the United States.
How can we tolerate such a disgrace? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will human trafficking ever end?</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/04/21/will-human-trafficking-ever-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/04/21/will-human-trafficking-ever-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2008 Presidential Race]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; More than two centuries after America&#8217;s first president, George Washington, dramatically freed his personal slaves, President George W. Bush grapples with the issue of involuntarily subjugated people. So will his successor, which leads me to ask:
Will human trafficking, as it is now known, ever end? Equally important, does anyone care?

Skeptics say no because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If only candidates today had George Washington’s courage, perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/04/14/if-only-candidates-today-had-george-washington%e2%80%99s-courage-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johncbersia.com/2008/04/14/if-only-candidates-today-had-george-washington%e2%80%99s-courage-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2008 Presidential Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALEXANDRIA, Va. &#8211; In 1799, George Washington, America’s first president, personally took an important but still-debated step against one of the most despicable practices in human society: slavery.

Standing near the spot where he freed his own slaves in a deathbed will, viewing every accessible documentary and file on the subject (for more information, visit www.mountvernon.org), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the abolitionists fighting today&#8217;s slavery?</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2007/08/13/where-are-the-abolitionists-fighting-todays-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johncbersia.com/2007/08/13/where-are-the-abolitionists-fighting-todays-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When slavery first entered my consciousness long ago, I was most shocked by the plight of the unfortunate people who, against their will, found themselves subjected to unspeakable horrors. I also could not fathom the behavior of those who engaged in the exploitation &#8211; from the slave-traders themselves to those who abetted them.
Then, about 15 [...]]]></description>
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