Firestone & Child Labor in Liberia

This video features interviews with two child laborers on a rubber plantation in Liberia operated by the Firestone tire company. Workers have to meet a daily production quota which is too high for one person to achieve or their low wages are halved. As a result, workers are forced to bring their children to work.

For more information about Firestone and to get involved in the campaign, please visit www.StopFirestone.org.

This video was produced by a Liberian organization called the Save My Future Foundation (http://www.samfu.org) in conjunction with their report on conditions on the Firestone plantation.

For more testimonies of child workers on the Firestone plantation in Liberia, please click here: http://stopfirestone.org/JamesRoesAffidavits.pdf or here: http://stopfirestone.org/JaneRoesAffidavits.pdf

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[15libluv]

that poor boy whats with all the questions.

[xxmrrickxx]

Yes, shame on Firestone. I've heard of child prostitution and the kidnapping of children to become militia men or drug traffickers, but making them carry buckets is a new low.

[N101RG]

I happen to have talked to a friend that was there a few months ago. Firestone has built schools and homes for their workers. The Liberians love Firestone.....there is no jobs and no welfare. Sometimes a child must work to support his little brothers and sisters cause dad won't help he is at his other girlfriends house making her pregnant. I lived there this is how it is. Stop being so damned self righteous. They are glad to have the work and money.

[thetachi136]

Children of American Farmers have been working harder than this forever. I worked on the farm as a child and still managed to graduate college. I am not saying its right, but life is not fair.

[dakanu]

Shame on those who allowed or are allowing this to continue. I'm going to be direct; shame on Firestone and the Liberian government for allowing this type of practice. You know this type of stuff will not fly in the U.S. As a matter of fact, I just got a quote on the price of a dump truck tire from Firestone, and it was $347.00.