Guest guest Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 alas, their halloweenie chocolate doesn't look vegan -----Forwarded Message----- Jamie Guzzi <jamie Oct 12, 2005 11:36 AM Fair Trade email list - Bay Area <fairtradelistba Celebrate a Fair Trade Halloween! Dear Friends, This Halloween we have a tremendous opportunity not only to bring an enormous amount of pressure to bear on big companies like Nestle that continue to refuse farmers a fair price for their cocoa, but also to celebrate the enormous success of their fairly traded competitors. Fair Trade Chocolate is now available in over 1,200 retail outlets across the country and three major supermarket chains including Safeway, Whole Foods and Tulleys. Every day more consumers are making the switch to the only chocolate that can be proven not to have been produced using abusive child labor or forced labor - that which is Fair Trade Certified. To highlight both the great success of our movement and the patent failure of leading chocolate companies like Nestle to embrace fair trade as the most comprehensive and proven solution to child labor on coca farms, we are asking that our friends and allies join us in making the switch to Fair Trade in their homes this Halloween and write and call Nestle on October 31st encouraging them to do the same. To find out more about how you can get involved or to order Fair Trade Trick or Treat materials to hand out at the door along with each piece of Fair Trade Chocolate, please read on to the message below or email jamie to order your Fair Trade Trick or Treat Action Kit including a pack of kids postcards a spooky door sign and more! ***Please Circulate Widely****Please Circulate Widely**** Don¹t Be Tricked By Your Halloween Treats! ***Order Your Fair Trade Trick or Treat Candy*** *** And Action Kit Today! *** http://www.globalexchange.org/halloween During Halloween companies like Nestle USA enjoy their BIGGEST sales to children. Unfortunately, chocolate is no treat for the hundreds of thousands of child cocoa laborers that work helping their families on farms or even toil as slaves. The US chocolate industry says it's working to end abusive child labor on cocoa farms, but so far little has been accomplished and their plan does NOT guarantee farmers a fair and stable price for their cocoa. There is a solution -- Fair Trade Certified Chocolate! Fair Trade guarantees farmers a fair price for their cocoa, so they can feed their families and keep their kids in school. Fair Trade does not allow abusive child labor or forced labor. Fair Trade Chocolate is now widely available but big chocolate companies like Nestle USA still refuse to sell it. Help us send a message to the major chocolate companies that we are tired of waiting for them to get serious about child slavery. Join Global Exchange, the International Labor Rights Fund, Oxfam America, the Fair Trade Resource Network, Coop America and United Students for Fair Trade in making a commitment to serving only Fair Trade Certified Chocolate in your home this Halloween. Order your Fair Trade Trick or Treat Kit Help spread the word about Fair Trade in your neighborhood and keep the pressure on companies like Nestle by ordering our Fair Trade Trick or Treat Action Kit. The kit includes thirty kids postcards with information about Fair Trade and how children can write Nestle CEO Joe Weller asking him to join them in making the switch this Halloween. Also included you will find a spooky door sign proclaiming your home a Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat household, along with information to share with your friends and neighbors about how they can get involved. Need candy to hand out? Order it from us online! For more information on how you can order your Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat Candy and receive a complimentary doorsign and kids postcard kit visit: http://www.globalexchange.org/halloween Call Nestle USA and Demand Fair Trade, October 31 Along with other major players in the chocolate industry, Nestle USA committed to ending child labor on cocoa farms by July 2005. But four years after the world first learned of child labor abuses on West African farms, little has been accomplished and the problem continues unabated. Call Nestle USA 1-800-225-5570 and demand they take their responsibility for ending forced and abusive child labor on their farms seriously by using Fair Trade Certified cocoa. You can also send a fax right now from our fax action page: http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/nestleslavery.html Talk About Fair Trade in Your Classroom Halloween is the perfect occasion to talk children about where their chocolate comes from and what they can do to help their peers on cocoa farms around the world. Global Exchange has tons of resources available for teachers and children of all ages to learn more about how fair trade is helping farmers and their children build a better life. Thousands of children participate in our fair trade chocolate campaign every year by writing letters to chocolate companies and staging events in their communities to educate their parents and peers about fair trade. Visit our children's education page for lesson plans, activity ideas and other materials to help you make your school fair trade: http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/chocolatekids.html For more information on how your school, church or community group can get involved or to order additional materials to promote fair trade in your home this Halloween, please contact Jamie Guzzi at 415-575-5538 or email Jamie. Show your support for a Fair Trade Halloween online with these fancy click through web banners courtesy of the International Labor Rights Fund: http://www.laborrights.org/projects/childlab/cocoa.htm#webbanner --- Jamie Guzzi Fair Trade Cocoa Campaigner Global Exchange jamie 415-575-5538 www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade 2017 Mission Street #303, San Francisco, CA 94110 Support Fair Trade today by visiting Global Exchange's Fair Trade stores. On-line and retail in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Portland www.globalexchange.org/store Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center working for political, economic, environmental, and social justice on a global scale. We work to increase international awareness among the U.S. public emphasizing struggles for peace, justice, and equality while building meaningful international partnerships. ***Please Circulate Widely****Please Circulate Widely**** ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are d to the mailing list <fairtradelistba. To , E-mail to: <fairtradelistba-off Send administrative queries to <fairtradelistba-request RIGHT NOW in this new world order, RIGHT NOW no one is free RIGHT NOW Corporations own this world RIGHT NOW we are victems of thier greed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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