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

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

X XXXX X

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