November 18, 2011 – November 27, 2011
This November, spend your vacation harvesting social justice! Participate in a transformative international travel experience. Global Exchange is sponsoring several highly motivated individuals to travel to Nicaragua this harvest season and work with a Fair Trade coffee cooperative (CECOCAFEN).
December 1, 2011 – December 10, 2011
A tour cosponsored by the Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF) in recognition of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3rd)
There are an estimated 650 million persons living with disabilities in the world today. If one includes the members of their families, there are approximately 2 billion persons who are directly affected by disability, representing almost a third of the world's population.
December 2, 2011 – December 12, 2011
As U.S. taxpayers, we play a big role in perpetuating the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The United States gives over $3 billion annually to Israel in military aid, which is primarily used to continue its 40 year old Occupation of Palestinian Territories. The Bush Administration's alliance with the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has resulted in unprecedented violence.
December 20, 2011 – December 27, 2011
This is a Food Sovereignty Tour brought to you by Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy in partnership with Global Exchange Reality Tours.
March 10, 2012 – March 19, 2012
This is a Food Sovereignty Tour brought to you by Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy in partnership with Global Exchange Reality Tours.
March 17, 2012 – March 25, 2012
The attention of the world focused on Chiapas on January 1st, 1994, the day that NAFTA went into effect, when an uprising led by indigenous Mexicans brought notice to their precarious living conditions.
March 31, 2012 – April 8, 2012
“Since the early 1990's, Cuba has been engaged in the most comprehensive conversion from chemical to organic agriculture that any nation has yet attempted.” -- Peter Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
BACKGROUND
April 9, 2012 – April 21, 2012
Guest EcoArtist, Jacinta Vlach (artistic director of Liberation Dance Theater) will help you explore Cuban dance, music and culture. This cultural exchange program will provide opportunities for artists, students, and educators
to study intensively with renowned Cuban dancers and musicians in Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
Participants will have the unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with
cultural activists and gain a deeper understanding of Cuban culture and artistic practice. You will learn about traditional forms in historical contexts and how it relates to present day Cuba.
April 27, 2012 – May 8, 2012
Our Cocoa Fair Harvest program in the Dominican Republic provides a direct connection to the improvements that socially responsible planters, growers, manufacturers and consumers are making less than a two hour flight from Miami. This Reality Tour will include opportunities to trek, volunteer, learn, explore history, and personally witness the close contact between the wealthy and the working poor of one of the United State's closest neighbors. The Dominican Republic has over 9 million people and is more than twice the size of the state of Massachusetts.
May 5, 2012 – May 13, 2012
"One ecosystem, one world, one planet... From high above, what we need to do is so obvious -- work together..."
