Nationality American Role Journalist Name David Batstone | ||
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Notable work Not for Sale, Saving the Corporate Soul Books Not for Sale, Saving the Corporate Soul‑‑and, From Conquest to Struggl, Salvar El Alma de La Empresa, Even God Suffers | ||
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David Batstone is an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco and is the founder and president of Not for Sale.
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- Attacking problems at its roots david batstone tedxalmedalen
- David batstone saving the corporate soul
- Biography
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Batstone is also a journalist and the president and founder of Right Reality, an international business that engages in social ventures. He is a leader in Central American Mission Partners, a human rights group. As a representative of this group, he met with Bono through Glide Memorial Church during A Conspiracy of Hope, a concert tour in support of Amnesty International. Before becoming a human rights activist, Batstone was a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
David batstone saving the corporate soul
Biography
Batstone wrote the book Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade - and How We Can Fight It, in which he wrote about human trafficking and how social inequality and poverty make it easy for traffickers to find girls to traffick. Julie Clawson wrote positively of this book, writing that she appreciated Batstone's "audacity in telling story after story of modern-day slavery." While still a student, Batstone studied under William R. Herzog, who taught Batstone about the parables of Jesus. Batstone is an advocate of workplace spirituality, about which he wrote in his 2003 book Saving the Corporate Soul. He is also a liberation theologian who considers postmodernity an era in which "we wallow in private affluence while squatting in public squalor." An anti-slavery activist, at the 2012 Freedom and Honor Conference in Korea, a conference about slavery and human trafficking, Batstone was one of the two keynote speakers.