1) Educate yourself further. Good sources of information include:
- Global Exchange
- The Child Labor Coalition
- Anti-Slavery
- Unfair Trade
- Fair Trade
- Abolish: The Anti-Slavery Portal
- Is There Slavery In Your Chocolate?
- Kevin Bales’ book Disposable People (University of California Press, 2000) is a thoroughly researched expose of modern day slavery.
2) Write a letter to the editor or an article in your local newspaper.
3) Buy Fair Trade chocolate and/or coffee for gifts that show you care about fairness for everyone. Or sell Fair Trade chocolate and/or coffee as a fundraiser for your church, school, or community group.
http://www.cocoacamino.com/en/index.php
http://www.justuscoffee.com/Resources/Docs/Brochure%20Chocolate%20Factory.pdf
http://www.divinechocolate.com/home/default.aspx
http://www.organicfair.com/
http://www.zazubean.com/
http://www.dubble.co.uk/stock_the_choc
4) Get stores in your community to carry Fair Trade chocolate and coffee. For support, email fairtrade@globalexchange.org
5) Contact the big chocolate companies, and ask them to buy Fair Trade cocoa. Hershey Foods Corp. can be reached at 100 Crystal A Drive, Hershey, PA 17033; (717) 534-6799. Mars, Inc. can be reached at 6885 Elm Street, McLean, VA 22101; (703) 821-4900. Tell them that you expect something to be done immediately to ensure that cocoa imported into the U.S. is not harvested by enslaved children.
6) Support the Fair Trade campaign by joining organizations such as Global Exchange. They can be reached at 2017 Mission Street, #303, San Francisco, California 94110; (415) 255-7296; info@globalexchange.org
7) Support the anti-slavery movement by joining organizations such as Anti-Slavery International. They can be reached in the U.S. at Suite 312-CIP, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2102. The main office is Anti-Slavery International, Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Road, London SW9 9TL, England