Comments on: About Our Campaign

By: Manju

Manju — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:37:30 +0000

Equal Exchange teas can be found on our webstore. If you visit http://www.equalexchange.coop and click on the “Shop” link in the top right, you will be able to purchase teas as well as other products from there. Also, we will be introducing a new tea line soon in hopes of supporting even more small-scale farmers. Hope this helps! Take care!

By: Ashesh Rai

Ashesh Rai — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:13:07 +0000

Please give me the address of outlet In US New York where i can get Sanjukta Vikas Tea Packet.

Thanks
Ashesh

By: Iden

Iden — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:42:07 +0000

Where does one buy seedling in Nicaragua?

By: Linden

Linden — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:34:00 +0000

My organization, The American Association for Health Freedom, located in Washington, D.C., is actively forming a coalition of concerned citizens and small farm/food production organizations to stop this law from passing. We believe that:

The Food Safety Enhancement Act:

• gives the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unprecedented scope, authority, and power over small farmers, food producers, and supplement producers, including the power to use vague language to intimidate and threaten;
• imposes unjustifiably harsh criminal and civil penalties for even administrative violations; and
• places undue economic hardship on small and mid-sized farms and food facilities (both organic and conventional), which could easily drive many of them out of business, and lead to monopoly control of food by large corporations.

If you are an organization interested in joining our cause, email us at office@healthfreedom.net. If you are interested in reading more on the bill and our organizations take, and are interested in signing a petition online for your congressman/senator, visit http://tiny.cc/XArxY

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By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:27:17 +0000

Mr. Chan,

Could I please quote your response? Its profound.
I am also equally overjoyed by the efforts of Equal Exchange.
Absolutely remarkable and inspiring.

By: Lee Beltrand Chan

Lee Beltrand Chan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:50:40 +0000

I love to dance, however, much of the time I feel too self conscious to let myself go with the music. Yet, there is an altered state of mind that I sometimes reach (independent of any substance) where my relation to the crowd and the music shifts. The focus moves away from the people in the crowd to the music in my ears and the performance on stage. I feel the music in a different way and this changes the way my body moves. I no longer feel the oppressive eyes of people in the crowd, but feel and hear what the rest of the crowd must be hearing, and move accordingly.
This weekend, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips said between songs that music cannot change the world, and he is right. People must make this change by how we all view the world and ourselves. For me this seems to be tied deeply to vanity. I had to look this one up, because vanity many connotations. It can mean futile, worthless, in vain so to speak, but it can also mean excessive pride, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If people could begin thinking ecologically, holistically, viewing themselves as part of the crowd experiencing music instead of as individuals surrounded by eyes, then I think we can change the meaning of vanity in our society and more importantly how we interact with our world. Wendell Berry writes in The Gift of Good Land how with the gift of land comes responsibility, the two combined as stewardship. Dancing at a concert demands that same sort of stewardship; if it seems that you are not personally enjoying the music, people around you will think that you are probably paying less attention to the music than themselves and will begin feeling more self conscious, which has a similar effect for all the people around them, and so on and so forth. Of course this works both ways, if someone next to you is moving to the music, you cannot help but begin to feel it as well.
This is exactly the same in humanities approach to the earth. If the earth is our music, which it is, then we all must respond to the music on the stage, we cannot let it be drowned out by the machines and blinded by the fumes. We cannot let the individualization and competition of a globalized capitalism tear us apart and put us against each other. We must dance like no one is watching, even though they are, and in fact, they must watch if they are to emulate us, which, again, they must.