by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Friday, Jul. 04, 2003 at 3:02 AM knash@igc.org
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28.5 min radio show with Terry Collingsworth, Dir of the Interntl abor Rights Fund. TO LISTEN CLICK ON iNDYMEDIA LINK
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report-National Edition Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
African Cocoa Picked By Indentured Child Labor Imported Into This Country, United States Customs Service Breaks America Trade Law with Terry Collingsworth, Director of the International Labor Rights Fund
The International Labor Rights Fund plans to file suit against the U.S. Customs Service for breaking American trade law and allowing African cocoa picked by indentured child labor to be imported into this country. The International Labor Rights Fund has grown impatient with the Customs Service for failing to investigate accusations that cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast use slave or indentured child labor. Cocoa beans are purchased by large international food firms like Nestle, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland Company