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FRIDAY - Child Slaves Making Your Chocolate?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven R. L. Millman)
Wed May 8 22:12:04 2002
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 22:11:01 -0400
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You are invited!
"Child Slaves: An Ingredient You Wouldn't Expect In Your Chocolate "
Presented by Steven R. L. MIllman (G), Political Science
TIME: 7:00 PM on Friday, May 10th
LOCATION: 2-105
Co-sponsored by SAVE and the Social Justice Cooperative (SJC)
Part of SJC's series, "Whose Global Economy"
This is a presentation and discussion about the rampant use of child
slavery to produce most of the world's chocolates. Also discussed will be
which companies do an do not use child slave produced cocoa, the role of
international organizations, and what can be done about the situation.
For some background, check out:
http://www.radicalthought.org
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/taste_of_slavery/
http://www.foodrevolution.org/slavery_chocolate.htm
Hope to see you there!
