FTLA supports women in Kolkata, India, who live and work in the Red Light district. They now have gainful employment with a fair wage, health benefits and education. Support these women and FTLA’s education efforts by purchasing one of their beautiful Fair Trade reusable shopping bags. Send an email to fairtradela@gmail.com and let us know of your interest. We are not set up for credit cards so payment will need to be by check. The cost is $20 plus.
Support Fair Trade Buy Fair Trade Tote Bags
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Fair Trade Federation Newsletter
6 12 2011| Great Products From our Newest FTF Members
A warm welcome to our newest members:
Connected Goods www.connectedgoods.com
Dsenyo www.dsenyo.com
Africa Schools of Kenya www.askenya.org
Earth Lover www.earthlovershopping.com
Just in time for your holiday shopping, here are some of their products! Fair + Fashionable. Accessorize in style: festive hairbands, a luxurious gold pendantor brightly beaded Maasai necklaces are on trend.
Get cozy. With colder weather arriving, lounge around the house in cute pajama pantsand a shawl. Curl up with a cup of tea and a warm lambswool throw to complete the experience!
Give the gift of relaxation during the hectic holiday season, with smoothing body oils or a charming
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| 2012 Annual Conference Call for Speakers
Our 2012 annual conference will be held May 21-23 in Bellevue, WA. We are seeking proposals for conference sessions that will speak to the needs and interests of FTF members and others involved in fair trade. Click here for more information about the conference and to download the speaker proposal. Submit proposals to info@fairtradefederation.org by December 1. Please also pass this along to others in your network who may be dynamic speakers – particularly those in the Seattle area. Thank you for helping us to build a dynamic and informative conference program! |
| Sincerely,
Fair Trade Federation |
 Give the gift of hope this holiday season by empowering women in the developing world.
Purchase fair trade gifts for your loved ones!
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Support Clarity In Fair Trade
6 12 2011Together we can make a difference in our own communities and in the lives of marginalized farmers, workers and artisans around the world. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to FTRN, the only national, Fair Trade organization that educates about all certifications, organizational recognitions, brands and producers in the Fair Trade movement.
Your year-end donation helps Fair Trade producers and advocates get clarity during these confusing times of monumental change:
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Photo courtesy of Project Have HopeFTRN produces the only national, ongoing, live public discussions of key issues in Fair Trade through webinars, seen by over 1000 people in 2011. Our inclusive approach has enabled advocates to interact with diverse panelists such as: the Director of the Small Producers Symbol and Latin America Producer rep on FLO Standards Committee (Jerónimo Pruijn van Engelen); the CEO of Fair Trade USA (Paul Rice); a leading researcher of the impacts of Fair Trade (Danielle Giovannucci); a certification officer of a Dominican Republic banana business (Helen Nicolas); the Fair Trade Organic Coffee Buyer of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Ed Canty); co-founder of Equal Exchange (Jonathan Rosenthal); and, Director of Canaan Fair Trade & Founder of Palestinian Fair Trade Association (Nasser Abufarha). All webinar recordings and notes are free to access.
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Photo courtesy of Fibres of LifeOver 2500 people voted in our 3rd annualFair Trade Photo Contest, in which producers and advocates submitted photos and told stories about Fair Trade. The 12 winning photos became the featured images in our 2012 Fair Trade Calendar, the only wall calendar focused on Fair Trade in N. America.
FTRN is the only organization in N. America focused exclusively on promoting Fair Trade education and discussion. We are also distinguished in a fragmented movement by being inclusive of broad Fair Trade interests.
Your donation will help FTRN to make these new programs successful:
Co-organizing a Fair Trade Leadership Summit, through which stakeholders in N. America’s movement can clarify direction for Fair Trade and collaborate on urgent issues.- Launching N. America’s only inclusive, grassroots membership program for the Fair Trade movement, Fair Trade Society, through which any person can access in-depth analysis of news, receive free advocacy resources, and qualify for specials on Fair Trade products.
FTRN will also strengthen our widely respected existing programs, such as:
1. World Fair Trade Day - We coordinate N. America’s largest Fair Trade event, as over 60,000 people take part in hundreds of events around N. America every May.
2. FTRN.org - this acclaimed website serves as a hub for over 100,000 people per year seeking a free Power Point overview of Fair Trade, movement news updates, reviews of books and films, a N. American Events Calendar, the world’s largest catalog of research papers, job listings and more.
3. Several popular and definitive publications about Fair Trade: the 2012 Fair Trade wall calendar, a kid’s book Think Fair Trade First!,and a leading introductory booklet that has over 65,000 copies distributed, An Overview of Fair Trade in North America.We ask for your support of the Fair Trade Resource Network to strengthen educational resources and discussion about all interests within the fragmented Fair Trade movement. Your donation also creates life changing opportunities for marginalized people around the world.
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Fair Trade VS. Free Trade
6 12 2011Fair Trade:
The transparent declaration all along the supply chain of the economic, social and ethical aspects of the goods being produced under Fair Trade standards (principles).
Here is a good article from Wikipedia:
Free Trade:
The elimination of tariffs, taxes and government subsidies in the movement of goods and services from producers to consumers.
Here is another good article from Wikipedia:
Pure economists favor free trade as it eliminates the distortions in the free market system. They do not like the implied social (wage) premiums paid under the FLO systems of labeling Fair Trade.
Here is some good material from the Economist – worth reading:
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Update From La Mesa
6 11 2011During the past few months we have been bringing you news of the ongoing campaign to make La Mesa a Fair Trade Town. The campaign continues and is learning weekly from the process. At the urging of some city council members, perhaps too soon, La Mesa Fair Trade got itself on the agenda for the October 11th city council meeting to vote on passage of a council resolution in support of Fair Trade Town status. Despit strong support from two council members other city council members were not yet ready to support passage of the resolution. Even though the vote before the La Mesa City Council did not result in the passage of a Fair Trade Town resolution, La Mesa Fair Trade and Fair Trade San Diego arefurther energized to continue our efforts of working in partnership with La Mesa City Council to pass a resolution in support of La Mesa being declared a Fair Trade Town as well to continue our broader efforts to raise awareness of the benefits of Fair Trade certified products.
Since October 11th the LMFT steering committee has been meeting one on one with La Mesa city council members to further
clarify what it means to pass a city resolution in favor of Fair Trade Town status. In addtion committee members continue to meet with local merchants who currently sell Fair Trade products as well as those who are interested in beginning to do so. As a result of the city council vote, the campaign received media attention from the East County Magazine, the La Mesa Patch and the Union Tribune. During October Fair Trade San Diego was able to have a letter to the editor published in all three media outlets so as to let the community know that the efforts to make La Mesa a Fair Trade Town have not slowed.
According to Fair Trade Towns USA, “The Fair Trade Towns designation provides a platform for continued outreach and education to build the Fair Trade movement locally and deepen each community’s commitment to international justice”. Passing a city council resolution is one of the last stages in the process of becoming a Fair Trade Town and is a recognition of support for organizations such as La Mesa Fair Trade to promote consumption of Fair Trade certified productsand educate on their impact. A city council resolution is not an endorsement of any particular local business.
Links to read letters to editor:
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/fair-trade
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/7682
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/25/mortgage-reform-plan-global-warming-organ-donation/
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NEW “FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED” MARK ANNOUNCED
6 11 2011October 28, 2011 Jeff
Fair Trade USA (FTUSA) has announced that the dominant label on U.S. and Canada products certified as Fair Trade will change to the one pictured at left. Both the new label, as well as the outgoing “bucket boy” one, will appear on products sold in N. America in 2012. The new “Fair Trade Certified” label, for the first time, can also be used on products sold in countries outside of N. America. So, the 3 widely recognized product labels in Fair Trade (Fair Trade Certified, FAIRTRADE, and Fair for Life) will now be seen in the U.S., Canada, and other countries.
Details at new Fair Trade Certified Label Launch
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Fair Trade Staying Connected with OOVOO.com
30 10 2011By Joan Harper
In the ever growing world of Technology, Fair Trade would like to share something to keep you connected with people or someone special in the world. OOVOO.com a free video chat/conferencing website. Please check out the link and let us know how you oovoo.
http://www.oovoo.com
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Holiday Global Bizarre at Craft & Folk Art Museum
30 10 2011Hope you are getting ready for the holiday season!
Please find attached PDF version of Holiday Global Bazaar invitation! The Printed version will be here on 10/31, and we will send them to you unless you would like to pick them up at the museum. If so please let me know!
Please use the invitation to promote the event- we are going to feature each of you on our website and face book page, so keep your eyes on it, too.
If you have not “like” the museum, please do it today!
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Yuko
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Yuko Makuuchi
Global Merchant
Global Merchant
Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel: 323.937.4230 x22
Fax: 323.937.5576
www.cafam.org
www.theeggandtheeye.com
5814 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel: 323.937.4230 x22
Fax: 323.937.5576
www.cafam.org
www.theeggandtheeye.com
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Saturday Nov 5th, 10,000 Villages Event
30 10 2011
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Fair World Project Newsletter
18 10 2011
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