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DESCRIPTION:\nThe Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in 
 America is Saket Soni's new book about his plan which wins the citizenship 
 of 500 workers from India after being exposed to inhumane conditions while 
 rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He will be in 
 conversation with renowned author Rebecca Solnit.\n\nIn 2006 Soni received 
 a clandestine phone call from one of 500 men living in squalor in a Gulf 
 Coast “man camp,” surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, 
 crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat 
 moldy bread and frozen rice. Each man and his family had paid $20,000 each 
 to apply for this “opportunity” to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane 
 Katrina.\n\nWeaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of 
 21st-century forced labor, Soni takes us into the hidden lives of the 
 foreign workers the US increasingly relies on for cheap skilled labor to 
 rebuild after climate disasters. The Great Escape is the astonishing 
 story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American 
 history—and the workers’ heroic journey for justice.\n\nSaket Soni is 
 the co-founder and executive director of Resilience Force, the national 
 voice of the resilience workforce — whose labor helps us prepare for, and 
 repair after, climate disaster. He has testified in Congress, and his work 
 has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and TIME Magazine. 
 A profile in USA Today called him “an architect of the next labor 
 movement.” Saket is from New Delhi, India.\n\nSoni will be in 
 conversation with renowned author Rebecca Solnit.\n\nFree admission. Doors 
 at 6:30 - event at 7:00pm. Please be masked and vaxxed. Thanks!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/24/18853972.php
SUMMARY:Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America - author Saket Soni with Rebecca Solnit
LOCATION:3rd Floor Edward McRoskey Loft\n1687 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  
 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/24/18853972.php
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