Profiting from Conflict Palm Oil while those on the frontlines and the planet pay the bill is simply unacceptable. That’s why I attended the Pepsico annual shareholder meeting in North Carolina to demand change from PepsiCo’s management and shareholders.

Join me: demand CEO Indra Nooyi take responsibility for the exploitation and destruction associated with PepsiCo’s products.

Last week we released a report documenting PepsiCo’s real business agenda to strengthen its profit margins above all else. PepsiCo is earning billions turning Conflict Palm Oil—a cheap and controversial ingredient—into snacks sold across the globe, while those on the frontlines of its rapid expansion pay the price.

Over the past month, activists have gone head to head with senior executives at high profile events to hold them accountable for PepsiCo’s flawed business model. Last week at the Beverage Forum in Chicago, when CEO Indra Nooyi took the stage, activists deployed banners showing images of child workers on Pepsi’s partner’s plantations and declaring “Indra, No Child Labor for Pepsi Profit.”

Help raise the pressure on PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: demand Pepsi take action to protect people and the planet instead of its profit margins!

Your voice matters. Pepsi needs to know that activists and potential customers around the globe expect better from the company. Take a stand for workers and rainforests – demand an end to this shameful profiteering now.

In solidarity,
Ginger Cassady
Forest Program Director

1670 – The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England’s King Charles II.

1776 – France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.

1797 – A mutiny in the British navy spread from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.

1798 – The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forced British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.

1808 – The citizens of Madrid rose up against Napoleon.

1813 – Napoleon defeated a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.

1853 – Franconi’s Hippodrome opened at Broadway and 23rd Street in New York City.

1863 – Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was wounded by his own men in the battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He died 8 days later.

1865 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

1885 – The Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II of Belgium.

1885 – The magazine “Good Housekeeping” was first published.

1887 – Hannibal W. Goodwin applied for a patent on celluloid photographic film. This is the film from which movies are shown.

1890 – The Oklahoma Territory was organized.

1902 – “A Trip to the Moon,” the first science fiction film was released. It was created by magician George Melies.

1922 – WBAP-AM began broadcasting in north Texas.

1926 – In India, Hindu women gained the right to seek elected office.

1926 – U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt and to protect U.S. interests. They did not depart until 1933.

1932 – Jack Benny’s first radio show debuted on NBC Radio.

1933 – Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.

1939 – Lou Gehrig set a new major league baseball record when he played in his 2,130th game. The streak began on June 1, 1925.

1941 – Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction.

1941 – The Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. This was the start of network television.

1945 – Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

1946 – Prisoners revolted at California‘s Alcatraz prison.

1954 – Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new major league record when he hit 5 home runs against the New York Giants.

1960 – Caryl Chessman was executed. He was a convicted sex offender and had become a best selling author while on death row.

1965 – The “Early Bird” satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.

1969 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) made its maiden voyage.

1970 – Student anti-war protesters at Ohio‘s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus.

1974 – Former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals.

1974 – The filming of “Jaws” began in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.

1982 – The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina’s only cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died.

1993 – At Washington’s National Gallery of Art, an exhibit of 80 paintings from the collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes opened.

1993 – Authorities said that they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX.

1994 – Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa’s first democratic elections.

1999 – In Panama, Mireya Moscoso de Grubar, of the Armulfista Party, was elected president.

2002 – It was reported that Phyllis Diller had retired from touring.