“Leading a business with your ideals? You must be crazy.” That’s what Angela Vendetti and her business partner, Jill Fink, heard when they started dreaming about opening Mugshots Café in Philadelphia. “When we were writing our business plan and trying to get Mugshots open, people told us we were crazy for putting our ideals before [...]
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‘Who are the crazy ones today?’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CECOCAFEN, co-op, Fair Trade, Nicaragua, small farmers, Tierra Nueva on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Local and Fair Trade at the Crossroads: are we building a movement or splintering one?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Buy Local, carbon emissions, Fair Trade, local first on June 17, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Despite my first blog entry, Why “local” and “Equal Exchange Fair Trade” are two sides of the same coin, I must admit that I’m becoming a little confused by some of the Buy Local messaging I’ve been observing lately. I wholeheartedly support the goals of the movement as I understand them to be: reducing our carbon [...]
Family Farmers Praise Introduction of Trade Bill That Helps Address Global Food Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, Fair Trade, food crisis, food sovereignty, free trade on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following is a press release from the National Family Farm Coalition about a trade bill recently introduced to Congress which we can finally put our support behind! FAMILY FARMERS PRAISE INTRODUCTION OF TRADE BILL THAT HELPS ADDRESS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: U.S. and United Nations Continue to Promote Catastrophic Free Trade Agenda Washington D.C., [...]
Food co-op buyers travel to Chiapas to learn about Fair Trade, free trade and small farmer initiatives to protect the fragile eco-system of El Triunfo Biosphere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CESMACH, El Triunfo, environmental protection, Fair Trade, free trade, small farmer co-operatives on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On World Fair Trade Day, we posted a few links to an article and a blog post written by Karisa Centenni (see: World Fair Trade Day) about the Equal Exchange Food Co-op trip to Chiapas, Mexico this past January. Since that time, we have received copies of two other articles written by participants of that [...]
“Stop corporate control over food!” Farmers bringing the message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome are expelled
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agribusiness, food crisis, Food security, small-scale farmers, Via Campesina on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers protest record profits of corporations while millions across the world are going hungry. Alexandra Strickner, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Rome, Italy, 3 June 2008 Watch the 3 minute video on http://wsftv.net Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action today in Rome, Italy at the FAO Summit on the [...]
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