let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream amos 5:24
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Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness
like a mighty streamAmos 5:24
Prophets Class, Spring 2010
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.
Cotton Shoes
Coffee
Chocolate
Sandals Diamonds
Christmas DecorationsGold
LeatherPornography
Sugar Cane
Pineapples
Cotton Shoes
Coffee
Chocolate
Sandals Diamonds
Christmas DecorationsGold
LeatherPornography
Sugar Cane
Pineapples
US Department of Labor List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, 2009
Good Country
Cocoa Cote d’IvoireCocoa GhanaCocoa GuineaCocoa Nigeria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6_3wSsXq4http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8584000/8584847.stm
Child Labor Forced Labor
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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
“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.”
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
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
GWU Earth Day
2010, 2011
Did you know that the chocolate, coffee, tea, and even clothing that most of us buy are tainted with slavery?
Chocolate Slavery Awareness