Protesters Target Hershey over Child Labor/Fair Trade Violations
While the Hershey Company hosts its Annual General Meeting Tuesday, May 1st, in Hershey, PA, as many as one hundred activists from Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, all from the Raise The Bar Campaign to make Hershey fair trade, will join together with activists from the National Guestworker Alliance (NGA) as well as Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia (MCC-Philadelphia), ACT UP Philadelphia, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), protesting Hershey over an incident of AIDS discrimination at the Milton Hershey School, will descend on Hershey, PA to host a lively protest outside the company’s AGM. The protest is set for Tuesday, May 1st from 9:30am to 11:30am (Eastern).
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