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david batstone

david batstone is an ethics professor at the university of san francisco and is the founder and president of not for sale , an abolitionist organization .
he 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 .
when mark juergensmeyer was doing research for his book `` the new cold war ?
: religious nationalism confronts the secular state '' , batstone assisted him in finding primary sources with respect to the nicaraguan revolution 's christian supporters .
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 . ''
at the 2012 freedom and honor conference in korea , a conference about slavery and human trafficking , batstone was one of the two keynote speakers , the other being tara teng , who was miss canada at the time .
