To the Best of Our Knowledge 

PROMO       3/30/2008         "The New Abolitionists"
*Would you be surprised to know there are more slaves in the world today
than at any other time in human history?  An estimated 27 million people
live in bondage.  I'm Jim Fleming.  Next time on To the Best of Our
Knowledge, the new abolitionists   including a reporter who risked his
life to document the global traffic in human beings, and a woman who is
free today for the first time in 28 years.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "The New Abolitionists"

0:00 - 20:45        SEGMENT 1: (2:46)
            Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent
            as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison
            for a murder she didn't commit.  Today, Maria is active
            with a group called "Free the Slaves." Also, Benjamin
            Skinner talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, "A
            Crime So Monstrous."  Skinner tells the story of how he
            infiltrated slave markets on five continents from slave
            quarries in India to child markets in Haiti and says that
            in Manhattan, you're five hours away from negotiating the
            sale of another human being in broad daylight.   
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

20:46 - 21:15  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

21:16 - 39:51       SEGMENT 2: (18:37)
            Journalist Adam Hochschild has written "Bury the Chains"
            about the anti-slavery movement in Britain two hundred
            years ago.  He says they invented many of the political
            tools and tactics today's protesters still use.  Also,
            Katrina Browne produced and directed the documentary
            "Traces of the Trade" in an effort to come to terms with
            her family's legacy of slave trading.  Browne talks with
            Jim Fleming and we hear excerpts from her film.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

39:52 - 40:21       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

40:22 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (12:38)
            Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as
            a visionary economist who founded the micro-credit
            movement and India's Grameen Bank.  Yunus talks with
            Steve Paulson about what he calls "social business," in
            which charitable dollars keep working as they would in
            any other business. His new book is called "Creating a
            World Without Poverty."  
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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