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Fair
Trade for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is around
the corner, and Co-op
America, Oxfam
America, the Chicago Fair Trade
Coalition, and the Fair Trade Resource
Network
are sponsoring a campaign to bring
more Fair Trade products into supermarkets
and stores. The campaign culminates
on November 20, one of the busiest
grocery shopping days of the year.
Click here to learn what
you can do: Co-op
America and Oxfam
America
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The
Results are in: Fair Trade Month Was a Huge Success!
A heartfelt thanks goes out to all of you who helped make Fair Trade Month
an incredible success! October was a month long celebration: designed to
raise consumer awareness via national and regional media outreach, retail
promotions, and consumer events. Fair Trade Month was TransFair’s
largest-ever national consumer outreach campaign. By all accounts, Fair
Trade Month effectively spread the word to five million potential new consumers.
Eight farmers visited seven cities on both coasts and in the American heartland;
clients, chefs, and community groups participated – and the media
rushed to report it!
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Pura
Vida’s John Sage speaks at Seattle U with Arminda
Trochez from Nicaragua, Bon Appetit’s Buzz Hofford
and Chauncey Burke from the Business School.
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Trinity
Entrepreneurs Choose Fair Trade
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona opened its
own Fair Trade Café on October 1, serving Fair Trade
Certified coffees from the Pura Vida Coffee Company. The café is
a project of the Cathedral Center for the Arts, part of the
cathedral’s commitment to the city’s cultural community.
In addition, the café hosts meetings, poetry slams,
fundraisers, and book clubs. Stop by and participate in community!
Read more
here>
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Lutherans
Surpass 90-Ton Challenge
Lutherans across the U.S. love Fair Trade Certified coffee in a big way—more
than doubling Fair Trade Certified coffee purchases during the last year to a
grand total of 99.04 tons! The joint partnership of Lutheran World Relief (LWR),
Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ECLA), and Equal Exchange
engaged 4300 Lutheran parishes and organizations as well as countless households.
Lutherans will keep “pouring justice to the brim” as the LWR Coffee
Project continues to support a fair price and quality of life for farmers. Read more
here>
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Winning
Campus Strategies
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the foodservice provider responsible
for all community dining establishments carrying Green Mountain coffees announced
a switch to 100% Fair Trade Certified
coffee
in
the
Fall
of this year. The decision was made after Students for Labor Justice created
a big
buzz
on
campus with a high-visibility "Got Fair Trade?" poster campaign involving
students, faculty and staff. The group also organized a Fair Trade Week during
which they held teach-ins, gave out samples of coffee, and collected over 500
comment cards requesting Fair Trade. Click here to create
your own campus campaign> |
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Foundations
Find Much to Support in Fair Trade
TransFair appreciates recent grant support from the Presbyterian Hunger Program
and The Friedman Family Foundation. Both organizations share TransFair’s
commitment to systemic social change and addressing the root causes of poverty.
TransFair is also deeply grateful to an anonymous donor through the Rudolf Steiner
Foundation Global Community Fund for a generous grant in support of our Fair
Trade work. |
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Medical
Insurance and Women’s Empowerment in Guatemala
ASOBAGRI, GUAYA’B, and Manos Campesinas are three Fair Trade cooperatives
in southwestern Guatemala that represent a total of more than 2,000 members,
the majority of whom are indigenous. As a result of revenue from Fair Trade,
the three co-ops have invested in numerous social and organic production projects
in their respective communities. For example, ASOBAGRI and GUAYA’B developed
medical insurance programs for members and families, while Manos Campesinas encouraged
women’s empowerment through the cooperative, resulting in a women’s
group that now roasts and sells its own coffee to local markets. All three cooperatives
have joined together in an informal consortium called La Tabla. Their goal is
to install a new quality control infrastructure and increase their organic production
by 20% for the 2004-05 harvest.
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COMPRAS:
Strength in Numbers
Unión Majomut, Mas Café, Unión de Ejidos San Fernando,
and CESMACH are four Fair Trade coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico that
joined forces in 2001, creating the export entity COMPRAS. COMPRAS helps all
7,800 members of these co-ops export their coffee on Fair Trade terms to Europe,
Japan, and the United States. By the end of the 2004-2005 harvest season COMPRAS
anticipates to export more than 200 containers, 50% of which will be organic.
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With
revenue from Fair Trade sales, all four cooperatives consult
a team of experts to assist with production techniques, provide
credit for their co-op
members, and support women’s groups and education programs within the
community. COMPRAS is looking to increase its sales to the U.S. market with
a strong eye to strengthen quality control and training programs.
Click here to learn more about Fair
Trade’s impact on farming families
worldwide |
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Upside
Down Banana-Espresso Coffee Cake by PCC Natural Markets
For the Caramel
4
tablespoons butter
3/4
cup brown sugar
1 basket raspberries
In the bottom of a 9 inch spring form or deep cake pan,
spread the butter and brown sugar evenly. Distribute the
raspberries
over the surface of the brown sugar.
For the Coffee Cake
3/4 cup softened butter
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 eggs
4 mashed ripe Fair Trade Certified bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 shot Fair Trade Certified espresso
3 cups flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Cream butter and sugar together. Add one egg at a time,
beating till smooth. Blend in mashed bananas, vanilla and
espresso.
In second bowl, stir flour with baking soda, baking powder
and salt. Add to banana mixture, stirring only to moisten.
Turn the batter into the caramel coated pan and spread it
evenly. Cook at 350 for about 35-45 minutes, or until a skewer
inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let the cake rest for about 1 minute, and invert it onto
a serving platter. Dust with sweetened Fair Trade Certified
cocoa or cinnamon/powdered sugar.
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