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		<title>Featured Gift Shop Item: Set of 3 Beaded Bowls from Kenya</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/featured-gift-shop-item-set-3-beaded-bowls-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/featured-gift-shop-item-set-3-beaded-bowls-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Center Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ol Malo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samburu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each piece is hand-beaded with care by the Samburu women of the Sampiripiri Arts workshop, Ol Malo.Your purchase of a beaded Table Setting Package will provide a Samburu woman with three weeks work and enable her to give her family  many of life’s necessities.  Each piece signed by artisan.
Ol Malo Designs is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Freedom Center for the Upcoming &#8220;Without Sanctuary&#8221; Teacher Institute</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/attention-educators-join-freedom-center-upcoming-sanctuary-teacher-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/attention-educators-join-freedom-center-upcoming-sanctuary-teacher-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Brandt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The keynote speaker for the institute will be Dr. Claude Clegg, professor of history at Indiana University.  The purpose of the institute is to prepare teachers to prepare their students to tour the Without Sanctuary exhibition.  There is no charge for this institute.  Educators can earn professional development hours or college credit (for an extra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal Would Strengthen Ohio&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking Efforts</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/proposal-strengthen-ohios-antitrafficking-efforts/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/proposal-strengthen-ohios-antitrafficking-efforts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-trafficking legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio human trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio Senators Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo) and Tim Grendell (R-Chesterland) have introduced legislation that would make human trafficking in Ohio a second-degree felony.  A bi-partisan group of twenty-six senators have co-sponsored the legislation.
Fedor&#8217;s office noted that Ohio is one of only seven states lacking felony-level language for human trafficking in-line with federal standards.
“Ohio needs legislation that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC-San Diego Follow-Up: Learning Why Lynching Symbols Hurt</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/ucsan-diego-followup-learning-lynching-symbols-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/ucsan-diego-followup-learning-lynching-symbols-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hate crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lynching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nooses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Without Sanctuary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A San Diego Union Tribune columnist, Michael Stetz, explores the confounding question of how it is that one of the nation&#8217;s top academic institutions can have among its students people who are so stone deaf to history that they can&#8217;t even grasp the frightful symbolism of a noose.  Here&#8217;s an earlier blog on the incident.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Seeking Nominees for 2010 Civil Rights Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/ohio-seeking-nominees-2010-civil-rights-recognition/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/ohio-seeking-nominees-2010-civil-rights-recognition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Civil Rights Commission is seeking nominations for induction into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame.  As many as 10 nominees can be chosen.
Nominations are due by May 31, and the induction ceremony is slated for October 14 in Columbus.  More information and a nomination form are available here.
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC San Diego Noose Incident Underscores Relevance of Freedom Center&#8217;s Lynching Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/uc-san-diego-noose-incident-underscores-relevance-freedom-centers-lynching-exhibition/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/uc-san-diego-noose-incident-underscores-relevance-freedom-centers-lynching-exhibition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students at the University of California-San Diego are aggressively protesting a series of racially charged campus incidents &#8212; including the display of a noose in the school&#8217;s main library&#8211; that has many observers questioning the school&#8217;s commitment to racial justice.  For a time, protesters took over UCSD&#8217;s Chancellor&#8217;s office.
Among those appealing for calm was Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ohio Really the Epicenter of Human Trafficking in the U.S.?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/ohio-epicenter-human-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/ohio-epicenter-human-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toledo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray released a report demonstrating that there was human trafficking in the state, and he even had numbers to prove the point.
There were, the report said, 3,437 foreign born persons in Ohio who may be at-risk for both labor and/or sex trafficking, 783 of which are estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Center to Host Free Screening of &#8220;Playground&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/freedom-center-host-free-screening-playground/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/freedom-center-host-free-screening-playground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Playground"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Heslov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libby Sears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the high volume of phone calls &#38; e-mails received concerning the &#8220;Playground&#8221; screening the NURFC asks for you to send an RSVP to FreedomCenterRSVP@gmail.com to reserve your seat. We have a 300 seat theater and expect this FREE screening to fill up quickly.
The Freedom Center will host a free screening of “Playground,” the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Industry Executive L.A. Reid to Participate in Discussion at Free Freedom Center Event</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/music-industry-executive-la-reid-participate-discussion-free-freedom-center-event/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/music-industry-executive-la-reid-participate-discussion-free-freedom-center-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Brandt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[101.1 The WIZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arista Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Def Jam Music Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. Reid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential music executive and Cincinnati native Antonio “L.A.” Reid will be at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Sunday, February 21, to participate in a discussion on how his entrepreneurial success is connected to the African American rise from slavery to freedom.  His appearance, at 1:30 in the Harriet Tubman Theater, is free and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts on the Home Front Remain a Work In Progress</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/progress-slow-fighting-domestic-human-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/progress-slow-fighting-domestic-human-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free the Slaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas City Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trafficking Victims Protection Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Wilberforce Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The DCAF report, from which the previous entries in this series of blog posts was drawn, does not specifically assess U.S. law enforcement and criminal justice efforts to combat human trafficking.  But much of its observations about the status of anti-trafficking efforts worldwide apply to our country, both in terms of progress being made as [...]]]></description>
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