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1 Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream Amos 5:24

2 Prophets Class, Spring 2010

3 Ancient Israel is criticized “because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for the price of a pair of sandals” (Amos 2:6) In some countries, parents are selling their children into slavery for $40 US dollars, the price of a nice pair of sandals.

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5 Cotton Shoes Coffee Chocolate Sandals Diamonds Christmas Decorations Gold Leather Pornography Sugar Cane Pineapples

6 Cotton Shoes Coffee Chocolate Sandals Diamonds Christmas Decorations Gold Leather Pornography Sugar Cane Pineapples

7 US Department of Labor List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, 2009 GoodCountry CocoaCote d’Ivoire CocoaGhana CocoaGuinea CocoaNigeria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6_3wSsXq4 http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8584000/ 8584847.stm Child Labor Forced LaborX X X

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10 Harkin-Engel Protocol Initiative to end child slave labor in the cocoa industry; led by US Representative Eliot Engel and Senator Tom Harkin “Industry has publicly acknowledged the problem of forced child labor in West Africa…” “West Africa nations have also acknowledged the problem…” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4498442

11 “By July 2005, the industry in partnership with other major stakeholders will develop and implement credible, mutually-acceptable, voluntary, industry- wide standards of public certification, consistent with applicable federal law, that cocoa beans and their derivative products have been grown and/or processed without any of the worst forms of child labor.”

12 Protocol Signed on September 19, 2001 Chocolate Manufacturer’s Association World Cocoa Foundation Senator Harkin, Iowa, Senator Kohl, Wisconsin Congressman Engel, New York Ivory Coast Ambassador, Youssoufou Bamba Several organizations to end child labor (ILO, IPEC) Mainstream chocolate manufacturers: Guittard, M&M/Mars, Nestle, Hershey’s, A few others

13 Protocol Signed on September 19, 2001 Chocolate Manufacturer’s Association World Cocoa Foundation Senator Harkin, Iowa, Senator Kohl, Wisconsin Congressman Engel, New York Ivory Coast Ambassador, Youssoufou Bamba Several organizations to end child labor (ILO, IPEC) Mainstream chocolate manufacturers: Guittard, M&M/Mars, Nestle, Hershey’s, A few others

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16 GWU Earth Day 2010, 2011

17 Did you know that the chocolate, coffee, tea, and even clothing that most of us buy are tainted with slavery?

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20 Chocolate Slavery Awareness


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