The recent topic of fair trade is blended with one of our favorite taste treats when Adrienne Fitch-Frankel helps SSU students discover the down side of chocolate: forced slavery, and child labor, on Wednesday, April 25th on the first floor of the Student Union in the Multi-Purpose Room at 8:00pm. The event is free to everyone and will feature free chocolate tasting for all guests.
Milk chocolate or dark chocolate, sweet, semi-sweet or bitter, few among us ever think of underpaid workers, slavery, and forced child labor when thinking about this, one of our most classic taste treats. Adrienne Fitch-Frankel will be visiting the Sonoma State Student Union to speak about unfair labor practices abroad with farms and workers that pick the cocoa beans used in most mass produced chocolate. Topics will include slavery, poor working conditions, and abusive child labor used by some of the world’s largest chocolate producers. Immediately following the event will be a chocolate tasting featuring only fair trade chocolate that uses fair labor and economic practices
Adrienne Fitch Frankel works as the fair trade cocoa campaigner for Global Exchange, an organization that promotes international economic, ecological, and social justice. Being involved in advocacy and human and environmental rights issues for over a decade, Adrienne reaches out to chocolate lovers and chocolate makers alike to help create a world in which we are all free to enjoy guilt-free chocolate.
Sonoma State Associated Students Productions, and the Student Union present Adrienne Fitch-Frankel and Fair Trade Chocolate on Wednesday, April 25th on the first floor of the Sonoma State Student Union in the Multi-Purpose Room. The event is free to all and begins at 8:00pm with fair trade chocolate tasting immediately after. For more information please call 664-2382 or go online at www.sonoma.edu/AS/ASP.
