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Fair Trade News Archive

06/27/08 Tainted Love? (CommonDreams.org)
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06/10/08 Small Is Bountiful (The Guardian)
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05/27/08 Fair Trade: Spreading the Wealth (OneWorld U.S.)
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02/28/08 What is Earth-friendly Chocolate? (The Progress Report)
02/15/08 Chocolate's bittersweet economy (Fortune)
02/14/08 Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Trade Cocoa (Democracy Now!)
02/14/08 Valentine's Day chocolates - product of slave labour? (expatica.com)
02/08/08 The Sweetest Chocolate Tours: Good for the Body and Soul (petergreenberg.com)
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02/02/08 What is Earth-friendly Chocolate? (The Progress Report)
12/12/07 So Little Time, So Many Charities to Feed (The New York Times)
11/11/07 Ivory Coast conflict exposes the darker side of chocolate (San Francisco Chronicle)
09/18/06 Jazzman’s New Environmentally Conscious Coffee Doesn’t Cut It (The New Paltz Oracle)
09/17/06 Gov't Supports Move to Get Banana Farmers Fair Trade Certified (The Jamaica Observer)
04/02/06 'Transparency' sought about cocoa suppliers (The Patriot-News)
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12/12/05 Fair Trade & Our Buying Choices (Persectives (the OneWorld US Online Magazine))
11/02/05 Chocolate’s Dark Side (E Magazine)
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11/02/05 Grounds for Change (E Magazine)
10/31/05 My Fair Chocolate (Brown Daily Herald)
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10/31/05 Chocolate, Unchained (Dissident Voice)
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10/28/05 The Dark Side of Chocolate (WireTap)
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10/27/05 McDonald's to Start Selling Organic Coffee (Associated Press)
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10/24/05 Taste for chocolate is gone (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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10/24/05 Human Rights Group Submits Shareholder Resolution to Hershey, Requesting Report on the Company’s Cocoa Supply (Global Exchange)
10/12/05 2005 Fair Trade Futures Conference Brings 700 to Chicago to Promote 'Living a Fair Trade Life' (Common Dreams)
10/07/05 Fair Trade Coffee Pioneer Questions Nestlé's Entry into Market: (Common Dreams)
10/07/05 Nestle launches fair trade coffee (BBC News)
07/20/05 Labor group sues Nestle (Glendale News Press)
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07/20/05 The dark story behind ‘Wonka;’ child labor and the cocoa industry (The Villager)
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07/16/05 U.S. companies sued in Calif. over child labor claims (Reuters)
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07/16/05 U.S. companies sued in Calif. over child labor claims (Reuters)
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07/14/05 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG SUES NESTLE, ADM, CARGILL FOR USING FORCED CHILD LABOR (International Labor Rights Fund)
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07/04/05 Ivory Coast's Child Workers Suffer Despite US Legislation (Voice of America)
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06/30/05 Did Child Slaves Harvest Your Latest Chocolate Treat? (Op-Ed News)
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05/27/05 Sundance Serves Up Fair Trade Certified Coffee (Sundance Press Release)
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05/13/05 Small Purchases Make a Big Difference (WireTap)
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03/24/05 AU groups support fair-trade coffee (The Eagle)
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02/14/05 Taking Child Slavery Out of Valentine's Day (LA Times)
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02/14/05 Taking Child Slavery Out of Valentine's Day (Los Angeles Times )
12/13/04 To Die a Little (Americas Program at the Interhemispheric Resource Center)
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12/13/04 To Die a Little: (Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) )
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12/10/04 Supermarket Campaign Attracts Customer Support (OXFAM)
11/22/04 A jolt with a difference (The Boston Phoenix)
11/13/04 In America: Do you just love a bargain? (MetroWest Daily News)
10/25/04 LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG TO SUE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE FOR NOT ENFORCING LAWS AGAINST CHILD LABOR (International Labor Rights Fund)
10/19/04 Ivory Coast cocoa exports blocked (BBC NEWS)
10/18/04 Oxfam America Activists Mobilize, Demanding Fair Trade Certified™ Coffee at Local Supermarkets (OXFAM)
10/06/04 Halliburton-Support the Troops! (Dean's Beans)
09/29/04 Starbucks in alliance to maintain coffee supply (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER)
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09/16/04 US Plans to Rejoin International Coffee Organization (OXFAM)
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08/22/04 Mexican coffee growers slam environmentalists' multinational ties (EFE via COMTEX)
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07/29/04 Guatemala Farm Rape Clouds Free Trade Debate (Reuters)
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07/12/04 Chocolate industry unlikely to meet US child abuse deadline (The Mercury, South Africa)
07/06/04 Duncan Coffee to begin offering Fair Trade variety (The Battalion - News)
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06/22/04 Letter to the Editor (Chicago Tribune)
06/18/04 Chocolate Chat (The Northwest Current School Dispatch)
06/08/04 How Fair Is Fair Trade? That's Tough To Figure (The Wall Street Journal )
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06/08/04 What Price Virtue? At Some Retailers, 'Fair Trade' Carries A Very High Cost (The Wall Street Journal)
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06/08/04 Youths taste protest at candy trade show (Chicago Tribune)
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05/24/04 Coffee With a Conscience (Copley News Service)
05/12/04 Boycott of Hershey Foods to continue, ministers say (Patriot News)
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05/09/04 Coffee with a conscience (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
05/05/04 Helping Third World One Banana at a Time (The New York Times)
04/29/04 Coffee growers make case (Albany Herald)
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04/29/04 Global Exchange and USFT Respond to Starbucks’ Fair Trade announcement (Global Exchange)
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04/17/04 Starbucks Smelling the Coffee (Miami Herald)
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04/07/04 Conscientious chocolate (The Toronto Star)
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04/06/04 Center to raise fair trade's profile (Houston Chronicle)
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04/01/04 The Joys and Perils of Attack Marketing (Inc. Magazine)
03/29/04 Fair Trade coffee grew 91 percent in 2003 (San Francisco Business Times)
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03/29/04 Students organize candy boycott over child slavery issue (The Journal News )
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03/11/04 DEVELOPMENT: Agricultural Subsidies Lock-In Coffee Farmers - Report (IPS Inter Press Service)
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03/07/04 Pursuing Justice One Cup at a Time (Washington Post)
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03/07/04 Area activist wakes up and picks the coffee (The Allentown Times )
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02/15/04 Goodness to the Last Drop (USA Today)
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02/13/04 The Dark Side of Valentine's Day (Democracy Now)
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02/13/04 Activists Target Chocolate, Gold on Valentine's Day (OneWorld US )
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02/11/04 Some not-so-sweets for your sweet (New York State United Teacher)
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02/10/04 Chocolate, a Love That's Bittersweet (New York Newsday)
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02/07/04 Is Your Grocery List Politically Correct? (Wall Street Journal)
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02/06/04 Sweet Sales: Candy is dandy but the category requires forethought (Organic Products Retailer Magazine)
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02/06/04 Slave and child labor protest set for Las Vegas Strip (Las Vegas Sun)
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02/02/04 There's a new cause brewing on campuses (Boston Globe)
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01/27/04 Mexican farmers must cope with coffee glut (Courier News)
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01/21/04 Brewing a Better Cup (Tide Pool)
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01/21/04 Wild Oats Markets Offers Nation's First Fair Trade Certified(TM) Bananas with TransFair USA (PR Newswire)
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01/06/04 Cocoa: The little bean that wooed the world (Wisconsin State Journal)
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12/11/03 Planting trouble (The Economist)
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12/08/03 Farmers of Ethiopia turn to khat as world coffee prices tumble (The Financial Times)
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12/05/03 A sweet recipe to help poor cocoa farmers (San Francisco Chronicle )
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12/02/03 Faith Organizations Throw Weight Behind 'Fair Trade' Coffee Movement (USA Today)
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11/30/03 Fair Trade Benefits All Workers (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
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11/29/03 Fair Trade, A Click Away (Washington Post)
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11/29/03 Fair Trade, A Click Away (Washington Post)
11/26/03 Starbucks raises some eyebrows in Latin America (Latin America Press)
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11/25/03 Difficult Times for Coffee Industry as Demand Falls (New York Times)
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11/04/03 Bay Area Kids Return Candy in Protest (Associated Press)
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10/31/03 Send Those Halloween Chocolates Back to Mars (OneWorld US )
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10/29/03 Coffee with a conscience sells (Arizona Daily Star)
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10/28/03 Children choose Fair Trade chocolate at Halloween (Straight Goods)
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10/26/03 The Rev. Lucy Hitchcock Seck Has Spent Much Of Her Life Spreading Respect For Human Dignity (South Florida Sun-Sentinal)
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10/22/03 Rescued child workers shine light on abusive trade (Reuters)
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10/22/03 Schools can help end child slavery on cocoa farms (New York Teacher)
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10/17/03 Coffee Program Expands to More Churches (Associated Press)
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10/15/03 Standing Up For Workers (City Beat )
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10/08/03 Kraft, activist groups still differ on 'fair-trade' coffee (Associated Press)
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10/01/03 Justice in Your Cup (City Beat)
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09/29/03 Coming to the grocery shelf: fair-trade food (Christian Science Monitor)
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09/18/03 Africa 'elated' at WTO results (Washington Times)
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09/16/03 US Fair Trade Industry Tops $USD Quarter of a Billion (Co-op America)
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09/15/03 P&G to give boost to small coffee growers (USA TODAY)
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09/15/03 In turnabout, P&G now selling fair-trade coffee (Associated Press)
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09/15/03 Advocacy Groups and Shareholders Persuade Procter & Gamble (Global Exchange)
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09/04/03 Equal Exchange Debuts Fair Trade Cocoa Powder for National Distribution (Equal Exchange)
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07/29/03 Stark wants government to serve fair trade coffee (San Francisco Chronicle)
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05/27/03 Cocoa industry to discuss market risk at meeting (Reuters)
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05/20/03 The Starbucks lifestyle: It's not just about coffee anymore (Denver Post)
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04/27/03 Cheap coffee 'threatens wildlife' (BBC)
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02/07/03 Depressed coffee prices yield suffering in poor countries (National Catholic Reporter)
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09/01/02 Consumer Activism and Corporate Accountability (Journal of Research for Consumers)


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