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From Martin Luther King Jr's Christmas Sermon on Peace: "We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly...before you finish eating your breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world." Listen t...o the 1967 broadcast at:
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New York Fair Trade Bake It Forward... When you share those Fair Trade holiday treats, tell others the good news about Fair Trade and encourage them to bake it forward. Visit this website for more info and gift tags or cards to download and attach to your goodies.
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Much of the world’s chocolate comes from cacao beans grown in West Africa, and many of the people who harvest those beans are children and adults who are forced to work with little or no pay. They ...
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Fair Trade Recipe: Equal Exchange Rich and Chocolatey Fair Trade Brownies. Try baking this classic, delicious treat from scratch using Fair Trade ingredients.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 sticks butter, melted (10 ounces)
1 cup Equal Exchange baking cocoa (http://www.equalexchange.coop/cocoa/)
1 pound Fair Trade brown sugar (http://...www.deansbeans.com/coffee/results.html?c
5 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup unbleached white flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and oil a 9x12-inch baking pan. Beat the cocoa into the melted butter with an electric mixer until smooth. Add each of the remaining ingredients in turn, beating after each addition until smooth. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for about 25 minutes, until the middle is set and the edges are pulling away from the sides of the pan. Let cool and enjoy!!
New York Fair Trade Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide ... Share gifts that give back! This guide includes over 80 Fair Trade gift ideas in categories ranging from body care to food to clothing - discount offers, too. Visit: http://tiny.cc/kQaFw
New York Fair Trade The Story of Stuff ... Check out this fun and fact-filled video which looks at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
www.storyofstuff.com
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. ...
New York Fair Trade Fair Trade on the Ground with Mayan Hands. Visit Laura Whalen's blog to share her experiences as she and fellow travelers visit Mayan weavers in the highlands of Guatemala. Fair Trade allows these womens and their families to invest in the future and preserve the culture they cherish.
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Travel to Guatemala to meet women weaving in a traditional style for the international fair trade market, November 19 to December 1, 2009.
New York Fair Trade Weaving a Brighter Future ... Mayan Hands is a Fair Trade organization that has been working with Mayan weavers since 1989. Earning a fair return for their work empowers these talented weavers and allows them to feed their families, send their children to school and harbor hopes for a better future. Visit the link belo...w to view a video presentation and visit www.mayanhands.org to learn more or order beautiful handwoven products.
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Nearly 1,000 workers at a non-Fair Trade tea plantation in West Bengal, India recently dared to challenge injustice. Their protest against the inhumane treatment of a fellow tea worker led the plantation management to lockout workers and deny them their wages for months.
Those workers and their families now face the thr...eat of starvation.
The IUF (International Union of Food workers) has launched an online campaign of protest, noting that the company -- which produces the world-famous Tetley teas -- is a member of the "Ethical Tea Partnership" and has thereby committed itself to better treatment of its workers than what is currently being carried out. To learn more and to send your message of protest, click on the link below.
New York Fair Trade Fair Trade for the Holidays. Share artisanal crafts and specialty food products which build bridges to other cultures. Fair Trade empowers craftspeople and farmers to preserve their traditions and create better lives for their families and communities. Visit the Fair Trade Federation member directory to find Fair Trade businesses near you.
www.fairtradefederation.org
Select any or all criteria and search our member directory for the items you want!If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact FTF or download our membership directory.
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"The Business of Change" This special Link TV mini-documentary discusses the Fair Trade business model promoted and executed by Dean Cycon, Dean's Beans founder and CEO. His model, which he challenges other companies to adopt, is based on the idea that business can be a vehicle for social change while also maintaining ...profitability.
To order Dean's coffee, visit www.labor-religion.org and follow the Fair Trade links. When you order via our website, Dean contributes 10% of the sale (at no cost to you) to our Fair Trade Project
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CSR stands for "Corporate Social Responsibility". These days, many thriving companies have CSR initiatives dedicated to looking at employee rights, origins of products, environmental impact, philanthropic ...
New York Fair Trade Tony & The Slave-Free Chocolate Factory. Watch Tony van de Keuken as he tries to prosecute himself for buying and eating chocolate made from slave labor. The filmmaker and journalist travels to West Africa to find children forced to work on cocoa plantations. Frustrated by the lack of progress to stop child slavery, this chocolate lover becomes a chocolate maker.
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"How do you spell that word, slave free?" (Nestlé spokesperson) "Okay, call it slavery, but you know they're dirt poor down there anyway..." (Nestlé spokesperson) www.chocolonely.nl One warm summer morning, Tony van de Keuken was reading a newspaper. ...
New York Fair Trade Fair Trade for Halloween - Because Chocolate Shouldn't be Scary! When your doorbell rings on Saturday night, send them away with a real treat. When you hand out Fair Trade chocolate, you take a stand against child slavery and abusive child labor in the chocolate fields of West Africa, where most American chocolate orig...inates. Fair Trade guarantees cocoa farmers a fair price, so they can feed their families and keep their kids in school.To learn more about how to tell the bitter from the sweet, check out the Chocolate Company Scorecard from our friends at ILRF.
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This scorecard ranks major chocolate companies by their commitment to ending child labor and ensuring transparency in their cocoa supply chains. To find out the bitter, bittersweet and sweet chocolate companies, check out this guide!
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Fair Trade Up Close. Teacher Kathleen Martin shares her experience traveling to Nicaragua to witness firsthand the benefits and possibilites of Fair Trade, an economic model that places people before profit. For more information about Fair Trade delegations, visit http://www.labor-religion.org/fairtrade-
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It's the first official day of my summer vacation. It's about 100 degrees out and I am soaking wet from sweat. I am standing on top of a garbage dump in Nicaragua, trying to ignore the smell. In the midst of the garbage we find two adorable and smiling kids. ...
New York Fair Trade Fair Trade Federation. Look for this symbol in store windows, shelf displays, and websites where you shop. Member companies have been rigorously evaluated for their commitment to Fair Trade criteria, including fair wages, safe, healthy, and particpatory workplaces, environmental practices and direct, long-term relation...ships. Whether buying home furnishings, clothing, coffee, or gifts, you will know that Fair Trade lies at the heart of member businesses. For more information, visit www.fairtradefederation.org
