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Link to article on fair trade
Mar 4, 2008

Focus:Workers Rights
Action Request:Think About
Location:Maine, United States
 
The following article discusses how Americans, and people in other relatively affluent nations, can use their purchasing power to support businesses marketing "fair trade" products that provide good wages to workers and artisans in relatively impoverished areas of the world. Thus, fair trade principles can contribute to global poverty reduction, economic development, workers rights, creative arts and crafts development, and international geopolitical stability.


Co-op America: Green Business Interview: Kusikuy
http://www.coopamerica.org/greenbusiness/interviews/articles/200802.cfm
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Posted: Tuesday March 4, 2008, 10:32 am
Tags: fair rights trade workers [add/edit tags]

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Suzanne B. (22) 		Wednesday March 19, 2008, 9:51 pm
I heard about Sacred Grounds (organic) Coffee on the Thom Hartmann Show (AM 1150), and bought some for Christmas. It has the "Fair Trade" labels. If you buy some put Thom Hartmann's name for a 10% discount.

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