{"id":186,"date":"2006-02-10T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-02-10T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:55:05","slug":"chocolate-companies-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/02\/10\/chocolate-companies-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Companies  Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_02_10_nestle.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_02_10_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborrights.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=30% src=\"http:\/\/ilalocal273.com\/1955535743.jpg\" alt=\"slave labor\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Bama Athreya, Deputy Director at the International Labor Rights Fund<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day approaches, many Americans are shopping the aisles for heart shaped boxes of chocolates for the one they love. However a lawsuit has now been filed against chocolate manufacturers and processors Nestle, Cargill, and Archer Daniels.  The suit charges these companies with torture, trafficking, and forced child labor on West African cocoa farms. It&#8217;s being filed by the DC-based International Labor Rights Fund. U.S. chocolate industries had pledged to end illegal child labor on cocoa farms by July 2005 through what&#8217;s called the &#8220;Harkin-Engel Protocol.&#8221; The protocol has long since expired, and no system standards were set. <\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborrights.org\">www.laborrights.org<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalexchange.org\">www.globalexchange.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be complicit in slave labor, there are alternatives. The Organic Consumers Association has compiled a list of fair trade and organic retailers that can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/valentines\">www.organicconsumers.org\/valentines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Bama Athreya, Deputy Director at the International Labor Rights Fund As Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day approaches, many Americans are shopping the aisles for heart shaped boxes of chocolates for the one they love. However a lawsuit has now been filed against chocolate manufacturers and processors Nestle, Cargill, and Archer Daniels. The suit charges these companies with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}