Category: Fair Trade

Jul 20 2018

WORKING LOCALLY

By Ronna in ALEC, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Corporate Power, Democracy, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Fair Trade, FOOD, FOSSIL FUELS, HOUSING, JUSTICE, Peace, RACISM, Social Justice, War, Wealth Disparity

Can we do this in Whatcom County? Well, we already are but we are siloed into our own working/affinity groups. Can we all come together into a cooperative group? I am calling it, for now, The Community Development Cooperative. The Public Market on Cornwall has space where we could come together and begin this work, …

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Apr 09 2018

FAIR TRADE – PEOPLE OVER PROFIT

By Ronna in Climate Change, Corporate Power, Economic Justice, Fair Trade, FOOD, TPP

OCCUPY BELLINGHAM is working the the Washington Fair Trade Coalition to fight for FAIR TRADE over “FREE” TRADE. Like the TPP fight we won after 3 years of struggle. Five activists from Whatcom County traveled to Mt. Vernon to meet with Suzan DelBene to speak to her about how “Free” trade, thus NAFTA is not …

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Dec 29 2017

FAIR TRADE

By Ronna in Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Fair Trade, FOOD

Three of us from OCCUPY attended a Washington Fair Trade session to help work on a public policy statement. It was productive and I am excited to see the final product. This article was sent by email to our web site. https://dealhack.com/history-fair-trade-buying-selling-product