Small Farmers. Big Change.

by Lucas Fowler, Equal Exchange Sales Representative in Madison, Wisconsin Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now! correspondent who just returned from Tahrir square, walked past the table today. Amy (we’re on a first name basis now) saw the “EE supports workers’ rights sign” and said, “hey that’s the coffee we [...]

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Hi everyone, Thanks for the continuing support from co-workers, Equal Exchange fans, workers’ rights fans, family and friends.  The coffee continues to flow, and the appreciation knows no end.  Our signs have become stained with coffee as the people balance their well-crafted signs in one hand, and their fresh hot cup in the other, all [...]

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by Rodney North, The Answer Man, Equal Exchange In the past we’ve tried to explain why we’ve invested so much to create a Fair Trade supply chain with co-operatives of small-scale tea growers. We’ve been trying to make the case that Fair Trade tea sourced from large plantations (which is normally the case for the [...]

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By Lucas Fowler, Equal Exchange Sales Account Representative (based in Madison, Wisconsin) Hi all, I am excited and exhausted all at the same time, but I wanted to give you an update on day 2 of the EE presence at the capitol.  First, for those who couldn’t read the fine print on the sign I [...]

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USFWC contact: Melissa Hoover, (415) 309-5983, melissa@usworker.coop The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) stands in solidarity with public workers protesting the State of Wisconsin’s Budget Repair Bill to protect their right to collective bargaining. The USFWC is a national grassroots membership organization of and for worker cooperatives, other democratic workplaces, and the organizations [...]

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    Felix Loja (and other farmers) plant and care for your banana on their small-Scale farms in Ecuador and Peru   After 12 months of growth, Bananas are harvested At packing stations, the bananas Undergo quality inspection, are washed And packed into boxes     Farmers choose the mode of transport To the centro [...]

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First the Obama administration approved GMO Alfalfa, then GMO sugar beets, and now they’ve approved GMO corn to be used for ethanol. All this despite the huge outcry from the organic community, farmer associations, consumer groups and other concerned citizens. What are we waiting for? Please… if you haven’t signed your name to the letter [...]

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Who do you know who goes to school–students OR teachers? If they go to school, chances are they have to fundraise.  And if they have to fundraise, chances are they probably do not like it and they get stuff they don’t want to sell.  So how can their fundraising be a little less onerous, a [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fair Trade Certifiers and Stakeholder Groups Sign Agreement to Work Toward Collaboration and Accountability in Domestic Fair Trade Boston, MA, February 1, 2011—The Domestic Fair Trade Association announced today that organizations engaged in fair trade and social justice standard-setting and certification have signed an agreement to work cooperatively and with a shared [...]

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By Daniel Fireside, Equal Exchange Capital Coordinator We here at Equal Exchange think we’re doing some pretty radical things in every way that we run our business. So it’s nice to hear what professionals in the world of high finance are saying about us. The following article was written by a financial advisor from the [...]

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