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Fair Trade: News & Updates
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May 15, 2016
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March 1, 2016
On Sunday March 6th over 500 farmworkers, students, people of faith and consumers came together to lift their voices in a march through downtown Columbus, OH to urge Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program. We were there with a Cleveland group to support the CIW and farmworkers in their fight for their rights.
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February 6, 2016
The InterReligious Task Force, in conjunction with Case Western Reserve University, presents the 16th annual Social Justice Teach-In as a great opportunity for people of all ages to learn about critical human rights issues and practice hands-on skills to organize for change. This annual event attracts 500+ participants, many from area high schools and colleges. The Teach-In will provide participants with information, skills, and resources to support their own social justice programming at their schools and congregations.
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SINCE THE SPRING OF 2019, IRTF HAS...
IRTF has given dozens of presentations and workshops for community groups, congregations, high school and college classes, clubs, and organizations.
IRTF has organized 11 events for our community--from cozy “coffeehouses” to the Social Justice and Fair Trade Teach-Ins with hundreds of attendees.
Through these events and presentations, we have been fortunate to share our values with 3,199 people (just in the past year), 1,209 of whom engaged with IRTF for the first time!
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Normalcy.
For the people of Colombia and Central America, normal means extreme inequality, suppression of workers’ rights, and crackdowns on civil liberties.
Normal means catastrophic climate shocks like prolonged droughts that destroy land and the subsistence livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of campesinos.
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The NE Ohio Fair Trade Network is offering small grants to student and youth groups to initiate sweatfree buying and fair trade projects.
