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Since 1988 Global Exchange has worked in solidarity with grassroots movements around the world struggling for social, economic and environmental justice. From peasant hamlets in Burkina Faso to squatter settlements in Mexico, to the fishing villages of Malaysia and communities here at home, we have been on the frontlines for human rights and global justice for more than 22 years. Here are some of our favorite milestones and victories
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1988 Global Exchange is founded with the aim of educating and organizing people here at home, while building long-lasting bonds of solidarity with global allies.
1990
Global Exchange
launches the No
Blood For Oil
Campaign, rallying
millions to march for
peace under banners
that made the link
between U.S. oil addiction and war.
1992
Global Exchange
helps build a national
Fair Trade movement
co-founding the
National Fair Trade
Federation.
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1993
Global Exchange
joined with activists
worldwide to oppose
the unjust and oppressive policies of
the World Bank and
IMF and co-founded
50 Years is Enough.
1995
Global Exchange
opens a Peace
House in Mexico to
challenge militarization, repression, and
impunity.
1996
Global Exchange
re-branded Nike
as “the sweatshop
shoe company,”
calling international
attention to worker’s
conditions.
1999
Global Exchange
joins with social
movements around
the world to protest
corporate globalization at the Seattle
World Trade Organization Ministerial
meeting.
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2000
Global Exchange
launched our Fair
Trade coffee campaign. Our campaign
succeeded in convincing both Starbucks
and Proctor & Gamble
to offer Fair Trade.
2002
Global Exchange’s
Medea Benjamin cofounded CODEPINK –
a network of women
dedicated to ending
the war – and held a
four-month vigil for
peace outside the
White House.
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2004
Global Exchange
takes on the Auto
Industry – challenging
Ford Motor Company
to break America’s
addiction to oil and
build zero-emission,
fuel-efficient vehicles.
2006
Global Exchange files
a joint suit with ILRF
against chocolate
giant Nestlé for their
refusal to end child
labor abuses and
slavery on cocoa
farms.
 2007
Global Exchange mobilizes tens-of-thousands of kids to give
Fair Trade chocolate
back to their neighbors on Halloween
and educates over a
quarter of a million
households about
Fair Trade in a single
night
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2008
Global Exchange
opens a Green
Festival in Seattle.
The Green Festival
introduces over
100,000 people each
year to the thriving
green economy.
 2009
Global Exchange joins
with communities
around the world to
demand Chevron—
and the entire
industry—end its
egregious exploitation of the people and
the planet for profit.
2010
These struggles
for human rights,
economic justice, and
environmental sustainability continue.
Join Global Exchange
today and together
we will win more
victories for justice!
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