Not For Sale - David Batstone

The Not For Sale "Stop Paying For Slavery" Tour is a multimedia event that brings together lecture, film and music to expose the human trafficking epidemic. Not For Sale founder, Dave Batstone and award-winning singer/songwriter, Brant Christopher perform together weaving songs into stories while being supported by riveting video; all in an effort to emotionally connect the audience with the global slave trade. It is a gripping night of heart breaking truth and inspirational victories.

The tour can include up to two workshops on mapping slavery in your community and supply chain responsibility, highlighted by video footage of our investigations, trafficking scenarios from around the world and educating students as to how they are contributing to modern day slavery without even knowing it.

This amazing multi-media lecture/film/music program just completed a 90 city, 6 country, 200 show run in 2009. The NFSC Free2Play program was also recently featured on MLB.com for signing on SF Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt and St. Louis Cardinal's slugger Matt Holliday! NFSC was recently recognized by Canadian Parliament for the work they are doing reporting trafficking cases on SlaveryMap.org in Canada.

About Dave Batstone:

Bono refers to David Batstone as a "heroic character". A professor of ethics at the University of San Francisco who started his "career" guarding Salvadorans and literacy teachers from death squads, Batstone was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and is the founder of the social venture firm, Right Reality. He writes regularly in USA Weekend edition as "America's Ethics Guru", He traveled around the world investigating the slave trade before writing Not For Sale, the book associated with this campaign. Winner of numerous national journalist awards, Batstone's first book "Saving the Corporate Soul" was named the 2004 Business Book of the Year at the Nautilus Awards. Batstone was named National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco for his work in the technology field.

Batstone served as Executive Editor for the social justice publication Sojourner Magazine and has appeared on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as well as CNN, ABC, FOX, BBC, NPR, Australian Broadcast Company, and German Public Television.

About Brant Christopher:

Award winning singer-songwriter/social activist Brant Christopher may be best known for fronting the popular Koch Records trio Fort Pastor. Serving as the voice and main songwriter for the group, their last album "Beautiful Imperfection" received rave reviews from Billboard, Christianity Today, Sirius Satellite Radio, and others calling Brant's voice "Gritty and Magnificent!" and the album "A rare triumph" Founder of the community service based organization, the Social Justice Army; Brant has watched the group grow to over 2000 members who completed over 20,000 hours of community service last year.

Brant is currently the "Artist in Residence" for the Not For Sale Campaign.