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Join the International Labor Rights Fund, Global Exchange, and the Organic Consumers Assocation in telling Nestle, Cargill, and ADM to stop using child labor!

On Monday, February 6th, just a week before Valentine?s Day, the first court hearing is scheduled for a lawsuit filed by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) against Nestle, Cargill, and Archer Daniels-Midland for forced child labor in their West African cocoa farms. The cocoa provided by these companies supplies virtually every major chocolate producer in the United States, including Hershey?s and M&M/Mars.

Global Exchange and the Organic Consumers Association will hold an action outside the courthouse to demand the companies stop using cocoa harvested by forced child labor.

Monday, February 6th
12:30 PM
US District Court #6
312 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA

Please bring your children, signs, posters, puppets, drums or anything else to send a message against child labor and in support of Fair Trade!

Fair Trade Chocolate Valentine?s Day kits will be given out as prizes in a game of Fair Trade Trivia!

To learn more about the lawsuit please visit: www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/3332.html

For more information or press inquiries contact Carlos Martinez at (415) 260-8566.