Webinars: News & Updates

Join Equal Exchange and Joe Maxwell from Farm Action for a deep dive on the Farm Bill and how you can make a difference!

The Farm Bill—a massive piece of legislation that is revisited every five years—provides a unique opportunity to raise our voices and press our political leaders for change. It covers everything from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) to subsidies for corporate agribusiess to many other programs that either help or hinder access to locally grown, healthy, sustainably sourced crops and humanely raised animals.

Joe will provide background on the farm bill and share Farm Action’s time-sensitive strategy to encourage meaningful change in this next bill. Collaborating with Farm Action, there is a unique opportunity to engage in this critical campaign to advocate for justice in a dangerously consolidated industrial food system. Together, we can make progress and build a more diverse and independent future that will work for farmers, workers, the planet, and you!

Registration at: https://equalexchange.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctf-yupj0oHNX_fShK3i_VO...

Join a discussion of the latest developments in key regions of the world with several authors of the new anthology: SANCTIONS: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy. 

Case Western:

Our Think Tank is centered around the theme of “A Balm for What Ails Us: Respect. Renew. Reimagine.” Our goal is to provide space for envisioning what liberation looks like for communities historically and currently marginalized by oppressive systems. We know that we cannot envision until we have healed, and we cannot heal until we have acknowledged our history. Our ambition is to foster conversations and reignite passion for social justice across the Cleveland community. We hope you will join us.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about call outs, the internal culture of progressive movements, and how we can build a movement big enough to take on the threats we face. SURJ has spent the last 12 years practicing one of our central values of calling white people in, not out, and adrienne maree brown has been at the forefront of helping movement communities orient around abolitionist values of care and belonging. This moment is ripe for exploring these connections. Join SURJ in conversation with author and facilitator Adrienne Maree Brown to explore why we need collective practices of calling in and how we can build a spiritually and emotionally well-resourced culture for white organizers.

What does hybrid warfare feel like when it’s being waged against you? Find out this Saturday when we speak to Nicaraguan women about their experiences of with the violence of 2018 and their efforts to counteract disinformation since then. Our speakers will break down hybrid warfare and how it affects women in Nicaragua and beyond.

The border is closer to us than we think. With about 50% of the state being within the Border Patrol’s 100-mile border zone and sharing a border with Canada, Ohio is impacted in many ways by immigration enforcement. Many Ohio residents, despite having lived in the state for many years, with a job and a family, still have to fear being arrested or detained, often simply based on racial profiling. Join us for this webinar as part of the IRTF Border Focus Month to get an overview of immigration enforcement in Ohio. Our statewide campaign has been successful in ending ICE contracts at two county jails. Hear some lessons learned from those efforts. But two county jails (Seneca and Geauga) are still making money from contracting jail cells to ICE. Let's work together to end racialized immigration enforcement and detention in Ohio!

Join Equal Exchange’s tea team for a journey into the world of tea! Learn more about why our alternative trade model is so important for tea farmers in an industry still dominated by plantations. Then, experience a selection of teas through a guided tasting as we learn about the crop and the farmers behind each blend. 

Consumer support and advocacy has been absolutely crucial to Equal Exchange since our founding in 1986. Over the decades, consumers have organized with Equal Exchange to gain placement in grocery stores across the US, organized distribution of Equal Exchange products in their communities, and spread the word about our alternative trade model to friends, family, and neighbors to help build our alternative trade economy. Our multistakeholder model would not be possible without the active participation of Citizen-Consumers like you. Join us for our next new member orientation to meet the organizing team, learn more about Equal Exchange, and get involved in the Citizen-Consumer community! Now is a great time to get involved for the first time or to get involved again if it’s been a little while.