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Justin Dillon competing in the 2004 US Championships.

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Evolution Knowledge needs to be further spread. A group of researchers, educators, policy makers, media and museum professionals, that I joined, came together last month in Porto, Portugal to work upon it.

 Evolution was made very popular more than 150 years ago. The book called ‘Origin of the species’ was a tremendous sucess. Its writer, named Charles Darwin, drew such strategy, so that this idea of Evolution could be accessible not only within the academia, but as much as possible across the society.

A group of 95 individuals came together last month to deal with the public understanding and engagement in Evolution Knowledge. Justin Dillon, from the University of Bristol was one of those passionate members of this new working group. As he made clear in his talk, more than to address these complex issues of involving others, there’s a pressing need take action to help solve issues as climate change and biodiversity loss, the wicked societal issues of our time.

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Yesterday our CEO was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the recent Nestlé child labor ruling by the Supreme Court.

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The Morning Risk Report: Child Labor Ruling Latest Supply Chain Wake-Up Call By BEN DIPIETRO

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday allowing a slave and child labor lawsuit to proceed against Nestle SANESN.VX +2.06%’s U.S. subsidiary, Archer Daniel Midlands Co. and Cargill Inc. should serve as yet another wake-up call to companies with extensive supply chains that they need to know what is happening in those networks if they want to avoid similar problems, said a labor activist and a labor attorney. The three companies deny the allegations that they knew their cocoa suppliers in Ivory Coast were using underage and forced workers.

“I don’t think the message is going away. The message to companies is to get ahead of this. The message is that doing nothing is very dangerous,” said Justin Dillon, chief executive of labor activist group Made in a Free World. “Transparency is the new black. It’s no longer a suggestive measure…it’s more of a stick.” Companies need to leverage their purchasing power to influence the behavior of their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers, he said. Asking suppliers to show they have knowledge and understanding of the risks associated with child and forced labor is a way to “rattle the cages” and takes the issue beyond the adoption of zero-tolerance policies and into an area where such a policy “becomes mechanized, which becomes transparency,” said Mr. Dillon. “What this ruling does is it starts to set the tone that this is the new normal.”

Mark Theodore, a partner at Proskauer Rose, said the ruling reinforces to companies that they need to be socially responsible employers. And while there is no way to ever completely prevent such risks, he said the ruling is a reminder to companies that they “should be monitoring and also maybe doing a little bit of introspective thinking about their own practices to avoid these things, or prevent them from happening, or to put themselves in legally defensible position if they can’t prevent them.

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‪#‎BREAKING‬: CNN joins the call to end the business of slavery with ‪#‎FRDM‬!

WATCH this morning's live interview with our Founder/CEO, Justin Dillon.

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SPY ON OUR CEO!

Check out the 34:00 mark for a great question and response about how innovation can protect our products from slavery.

WATCH HERE.

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Is art entertainment? Art teaches us about who we are. Entertainment tells us who to be. Art is a public service. Entertainment is a private product. Art opens our minds. Entertainment thinks for you. Art is publicly offered. Entertainment is publicly traded. Art is the words we wish to say, but lack the language to say it.

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