Posted by Admin in Fair Trade News & Views, Guest Posts on 2nd September, 2012 | No Comments
Happy Fair Trade Month! For 31 days we’re seting out fun ideas and activities (and a contest!) to have you eating Fair Trade bananas, hosting movie screenings, baking delicious Fair Trade goodies, recycling Halloween costumes, and giving out Fair Trade chocolates to trick-or-treaters. For more, visit Fair Trade Your Halloween. Check out our website for the whole list »
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Fair Trade Roundups, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign on 30th August, 2012 | 1 Comment
Things are happening in the Fair Trade industry; a Labor Day action, certification updates, upcoming conferences, and a whole lot more. Here’s a rundown of Fair Trade news, all in one place….your monthly Fair Trade Roundup!
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Posted by Kirsten Moller in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign on 21st August, 2012 | 2 Comments
On Labor Day, join activists from around the country in a fun Facebook action to demand that Hershey‘s and the rest of the cocoa industry END the grinding poverty and abusive child labor in the cocoa fields…by making a statement with s’mores!
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Store Updates on 15th August, 2012 | No Comments
The history of the labor movement in the United States is filled with ambitious, hard-working Americans planting the seeds of their dreams in hopes for a prosperous future. How does the U.S. labor movement relate to the international struggle for economic justice? Read on to find out!
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign on 11th July, 2012 | 1 Comment
Last week on the 4th of July Global Exchange held a s’mores event at the opening show of the famous San Francisco Mime Troupe, as part of a nationwide summer-long action calling on Hershey and the rest of the cocoa industry to END grinding poverty and abusive child labor in the cocoa fields. Check out the pics and find out how YOU can get involved.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Featured, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign on 18th June, 2012 | 2 Comments
Global Exchange went to the Higher Vision Festival at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds last weekend to spread the word about Fair Trade in an unusual way.
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Posted by Kirsten Moller in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign on 12th June, 2012 | 1 Comment
June 12th is World Day Against Child Labor. In 2010 the world community through the International Labor Organization, adopted a “Roadmap for Elimination of the worst forms child labor by the year 2016″. With only 3 years to go, how are we doing?
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Posted by Jocelyn Boreta in Fair Trade News & Views, Featured, Global Exchange Store Updates on 11th June, 2012 | 2 Comments
Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores Program Director Jocelyn Boreta recently attended the Fair Trade Federation conference. Here’s what she took away from the conference, and why it’s important to get beyond the label moving forward.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Fair Trade News & Views, Fair Trade Roundups, Featured on 5th June, 2012 | No Comments
Spring is in the air, and Fair Trade news abounds. This month in our Fair Trade Roundup, we”ve got some key dates for you to remember, plus an abundance of Fair Trade news you can use.
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Posted by Alex Cole-Weiss in Fair Trade News & Views, Global Exchange Store Updates on 22nd May, 2012 | 2 Comments
When Lata Kachhawan first went to visit the communities in rural Rajasthan, she had to walk or go by camel. There were no roads, no electricity, just miles of sand dunes to walk over. And when she finally got to the village, the few women she saw walking to the well ran away from her, scared about what an outsider might be doing there. Over twenty years later, things have changed a lot–find out how Fair Trade has been an important part of that transformation.
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