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Fair Trade: News & Updates

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Food Action Forum - Make Our Food System Fair!
March 11, 2020
Alternative Trade Organizations (such as Equal Exchange) have foundational influence in the broader fair trade movement but have become isolated from even their most natural allies including coops, citizen movements, community economic organizations, unions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The monthly Food Action Forum meetings allow all of us to connect, build community, and have space to push our campaigns forward and engage in actions out in our local communities. In today’s overwhelmingly digital world we want to find ways to create meaningful and deep connections with this community, connections that are two-way, connections that are active, not passive. Join us as we work together to build a democratic brand that connects small farmers in the Global South to consumers in the Global North.
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Food Action Forum - Make Our Food System Fair!
February 12, 2020
Alternative Trade Organizations (such as Equal Exchange) have foundational influence in the broader fair trade movement but have become isolated from even their most natural allies including coops, citizen movements, community economic organizations, unions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The monthly Food Action Forum meetings allow all of us to connect, build community, and have space to push our campaigns forward and engage in actions out in our local communities. In today’s overwhelmingly digital world we want to find ways to create meaningful and deep connections with this community, connections that are two-way, connections that are active, not passive. Join us as we work together to build a democratic brand that connects small farmers in the Global South to consumers in the Global North.
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Honduran Workers Fight Union Busting Multinational - The full article
January 24, 2020

In early 2019, after an international pressure campaign led by the International Labor Rights Forum and Fair World Project, Fyffes seemed to relent, agreeing to talk with the union and reinstate some workers allegedly fired in retaliation. But since then, the union says Fyffes has backtracked, refused to recognize the union, and instead supported parallel company-backed unions. This is meant to preempt militant unions like STAS from establishing themselves as representatives of the temporary workers, who make up 90 percent of the workforce. “The formation of those organizations was part of a pattern of anti union violence against STAS,” says the union’s general secretary, Moises Sanchez, in a phone interview with The Progressive from Honduras, conducted via a translator. “And the reason that they recognized those unions was not because they are a good farm or a good multinational corporation. What we want are exclusive bargaining rights for the temporary workers on the farms who don’t have a voice or a vote to improve their working conditions.”

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Food Action Forum - Make Our Food System Fair!
January 8, 2020

Alternative Trade Organizations (such as Equal Exchange) have foundational influence in the broader fair trade movement but have become isolated from even their most natural allies including coops, citizen movements, community economic organizations, unions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The monthly Food Action Forum meetings allow all of us to connect, build community, and have space to push our campaigns forward and engage in actions out in our local communities. In today’s overwhelmingly digital world we want to find ways to create meaningful and deep connections with this community, connections that are two-way, connections that are active, not passive. Join us as we work together to build a democratic brand that connects small farmers in the Global South to consumers in the Global North.

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Fair Trade Fair - St. Joseph Academy, Cleveland
December 12, 2019
Volunteers are needed to run the IRTF fair trade booth. Our fair trade program generates thousands of dollars in much needed income for artisans and farmers in Latin America. Fair trade sets standards to ensure fair wages and human dignity for producers, community investment, environmental sustainability, and more. Cooperative members set their own hours and working conditions, and they are able to pay themselves a living wage (in the local context). Economic stability means people can resist the pressures to emigrate. Moreover, their children can continue their schooling, setting the stage for better opportunities for the next generation. https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade
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Fair trade fair - Magnificat High School, Rocky River
December 10, 2019 to December 11, 2019
Volunteers are needed to run the IRTF fair trade booth. Our fair trade program generates thousands of dollars in much needed income for artisans and farmers in Latin America. Fair trade sets standards to ensure fair wages and human dignity for producers, community investment, environmental sustainability, and more. Cooperative members set their own hours and working conditions, and they are able to pay themselves a living wage (in the local context). Economic stability means people can resist the pressures to emigrate. Moreover, their children can continue their schooling, setting the stage for better opportunities for the next generation. https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade
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Fair trade fair - St Martin de Porres High School, Cleveland
December 10, 2019
Volunteers are needed to run the IRTF fair trade booth. Our fair trade program generates thousands of dollars in much needed income for artisans and farmers in Latin America. Fair trade sets standards to ensure fair wages and human dignity for producers, community investment, environmental sustainability, and more. Cooperative members set their own hours and working conditions, and they are able to pay themselves a living wage (in the local context). Economic stability means people can resist the pressures to emigrate. Moreover, their children can continue their schooling, setting the stage for better opportunities for the next generation. https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade
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Fair Trade Sale - St Patrick Church, Cleveland's Near West Side
December 8, 2019
Volunteers are needed to run the IRTF fair trade booth. Our fair trade program generates thousands of dollars in much needed income for artisans and farmers in Latin America. Fair trade sets standards to ensure fair wages and human dignity for producers, community investment, environmental sustainability, and more. Cooperative members set their own hours and working conditions, and they are able to pay themselves a living wage (in the local context). Economic stability means people can resist the pressures to emigrate. Moreover, their children can continue their schooling, setting the stage for better opportunities for the next generation. https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade
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Art as Nonviolent Resistance: Bringing Down the Repressive Regime of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan
December 7, 2019
Art as Change: How art moved the people of Sudan toward nonviolent resistance to depose a repressive regime. Keynote: Malaz Elgemiabby will display her art and discuss the role that art played in the successful nonviolent movement to depose the repressive regime of President Omar al-Bashir and to negotiate with the military on the transition to democratic rule for the people of Sudan. Her talk is part of a day of events organized as the Fifth annual State of Nonviolence. Read more on Facebook: Cleveland Nonviolence Network
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Fair Trade Advent Festival - Church of the Saviour, Cleveland Heights
December 7, 2019
Purchase products that support justice and equity in the distribution, access to, and participation in the production and consumption of the world’s resources for the people of the global south. The conventional trade model is accelerating a race to the bottom that hurts workers, consumers, and the environment. Moreover, it further divides us into “haves” and “have nots.” As an alternative model, fair trade sets a series of standards to ensure fair wages and human dignity for producers, community investment, environmental sustainability, and more.
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