Modern-Day Slavery Museum visits Boston Area
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 10:35am.
When: Monday, August 9, 2010, 10:00 am
to 8:00 pm
Where: City Hall Plaza • Government Center T • Boston
2010 Aug 9 - 10:00am
2010 Aug 9 - 8:00pm
Monday, August 9
Boston City Hall Plaza (adjacent to MBTA stop)
10am - 8pm
United First Parish Church, 1306 Hancock St, Quincy
8 am - 7 pm
Sunday, August 8
Downtown Salem (Essex St adjacent to the Visitors Center)
2:30pm - 8 pm
The centerpiece of the traveling museum is a replica of a truck used to enslave farmworkers in the US. vs. Navarrete (2008) slavery case that tells the stories of six modern farmworker slavery cases involving over 1,000 workers. The truck is accompanied by an examination of the history and evolution of slavery in the fields of Florida and up along the East Coast: Its roots, the reason it persists, and solutions.
Presented by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Free and open to the public
The Museum is endorsed by numerous human rights and anti-slavery groups including: Amnesty International (USA), Anti-Slavery International, Free the Slaves, Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships, Freedom Network, and Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. It was recently hosted by the U.S. State Department for the release of the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report.
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