August 14

Listening to Pink Martini - Sympathique

I have that Aicha Song (Gelliman) in my head. It's driving me insane.

One of my coworkers told me that he was against gay marriage because "where would it stop....pretty soon you would have people marrying animals." GEEZ!

It riles me up when my husband thinks he is not hireable competition because he does not have a college degree. I work with unintelligent people every day and many have two or three degrees. It is helpful, but should not be the end all.

It has been almost 60 years since the United Nations signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and still the atrocities continue. People continue to be tortured, suppressed, terrorized, defiled, neglected and murdered!

Read this about NESTLE USA
CEO: Joe Weller
800 N. Brand Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91203
Phone: 818-549-6000
Fax: 818-549-6952

Human Rights Violations: Abusive child labor, repression of worker rights, aggressive marketing of harmful products, violation of national health and environmental laws

1. Much of the chocolate eaten all over the world is made of cocoa beans that have been harvested by illegal child labor, including child slave labor.

2. In 2001, Save the Children Canada reported that 15,000 children between 9 and 12 years old, many from impoverished Mali, had been tricked or sold into slavery on West African cocoa farms, many for just $30 each.

3. Nestle is well aware of the tragically unjust labor practices taking place on the farms with which it continues to do business. Nestle and other chocolate manufacturers agreed to end the use of abusive and forced child labor on cocoa farms by July 1, 2005, but they failed to do so.

4. In Italy in 2005, police seized more than two million liters of Nestle's infant formula that was contaminated with the chemical isopropylthioxanthone (ITX), a component in the packaging's ink. It turned out the company knew about the contamination for months, but did not recall the formula.

5. Visit globalexchange.org for more.