United to Raise Awareness On Child Labor
Child labor existed in our history and it is still abundant today. America has regulated child labor, but has not stopped it. Americans are still supporting child labor without even noticing. Children are being exploited in other countries and America is supporting this by purchasing the products those children produce. Even in the United States child labor still exists; most child labor here is in agriculture. Child labor has to be stopped and awareness on the situation needs to be raised.- Mariela Castro
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Link reblogged from Do you know what your goods really cost?
“Almost ten years since chocolate companies committed to ending child labor, forced labor and trafficking in their cocoa supply chains, these egregious labor rights abuses continue. While many chocolate companies have taken steps to trace their cocoa purchasing and implement labor…
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Link reblogged from Wear It For Good! [a greenlight blog]
For those of us little guys out there fighting gallantly to save the world, it’s just gut-wrenching to see a major player step forward and say, “Meh…it’s not our problem.”
So what do we do about Nestle? The packaged foods conglomerate whose last great idea was peddling litter-in-waiting and…
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(Source: enforceourrightss)
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Link reblogged from Wear It For Good! [a greenlight blog]
For those of us little guys out there fighting gallantly to save the world, it’s just gut-wrenching to see a major player step forward and say, “Meh…it’s not our problem.”
So what do we do about Nestle? The packaged foods conglomerate whose last great idea was peddling litter-in-waiting and…
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Photo reblogged from The Decline of the West
“Life’s will is to preserve itself and to prevail, or, rather, to make itself stronger in order that it might prevail. But in the economic state of fitness the being-streams are in order as self-regarding, whereas in a political they are other-regarding. Whole peoples have lost the tense force of their race through the gnawing wretchedness of their living. Here men die of something and not for something. Politics sacrifices men for an idea, they fall for an idea; but economy merely wastes them away. In war life is elevated by death, often to that point of irresistable force whose mere existence guarantees victory, but in the economic life hunger awakens the ugly, vulgar, and wholly unmetaphysical sort of fearfulness for one’s life under which the higher form-world of a Culture miserably collapses and the naked struggle for existence of the human beast begins.”
-Oswald Spenger, The Decline of the West
In the “naked struggle for existence of the human beast” we enslave our own children to the economic machine. When, in our decadence, we pretend to higher ideals and indignantly insist that our own children be sheltered from the true nature of the monster we’ve built to provide our daily bread, we - and someday a future historian is going to shake his head and smile in disbelief at this - congratulate ourselves for outlawing child-labor while we move our factories offshore, safely out of sight, so that we may put the children of another people to be sacrificed at the economic altar, or, when we build the largest armies in the history of the world and send our sons and daughters to die in the name of keeping our bellies and the gas-tanks of our SUVs over-filled, we tell ourselves we kill by the thousands in the name of decency and humanity, and give our children medals upon their return. And though a medal doesn’t erase the psychological effects of mass-murder or restore their bodily wounds, it is at least more than they got when we marched them into the factory every day.
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Video reblogged from One Minute News
In this video, CNN’s Richard Quest talks to filmmaker U. Roberto Romano, whose documentary “The Dark Side of Chocolate” investigates child labor and cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast.
This is absolutely SHOCKING. Apparently, there is a “Dark side” to chocolate that I have been blissfully unaware of. It looks like I’m going to have to reevaluate my love affair with M&M’s now. *Sad face*Read the rest of the story here: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/04/06/cfp.roberto.romano.intv.cnn
(Source: CNN)
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Video reblogged from Global Labour Rights
Interview with Halima, 11 years old, who sews for Hanes
