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Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic, and environmental justice around the world by resisting injustice, envisioning alternatives, and taking action. Global Exchange’s Fair Trade campaign is a national network of individuals whose simple, creative actions educate and advocate for Fair Trade certified products and support small farmers’ efforts to build a better future for their families.
FAIR TRADE CAMPAIGN
Why Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is the alternative to the misbegotten trade policies we condemned in Seattle. Fair Trade certification empowers democratically-organized farmer cooperatives to escape poverty, while protecting workers and the environment. Participants in Global Exchange’s Fair Trade campaign support these courageous farmers from some of the remotest spots on the planet, who are standing up against exploitation by transforming trade, one cocoa or coffee bean at a time!
How do I help?
Take action by Reverse Trick-or-Treating! On Halloween, kids (and adults!) on their trick-or-treating rounds will give chocolate back to every household. Promote Fair Trade by handing out Fair Trade certified chocolate attached to a card informing your neighbors about exploitation in the cocoa industry, including forced child labor, and how Fair Trade provides an alternative.
THE FIVE STEPS
1. REQUEST your FREE Reverse Trick-or-Treating kit! (Order now! Last year we ran out weeks before Halloween! Deadline for individual kits is October 13; the deadline for groups, such as schools, congregations, and youth groups, is October 1.) Each kit consists of 20-25 pieces of Fair Trade chocolate and information cards.
2. USE our email tool to invite friends and relatives with kids to sign up for Reverse Trick-or-Treating, too!
3. DREAM up a FUN costume! You're still a trick-or-treater!
4. Trick-or-Treating with kids? READ Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Cocoa Book to your kids a day or two before Trick-or-Treating, to help them understand social justice issues in the cocoa industry and the significance of taking action for Fair Trade.
5. GO door to door on Halloween and hand each household you visit a card with some Fair Trade chocolate! When you’re done, savor your accomplishment over a cup of Fair Trade hot cocoa!
Not personally comfortable walking door-to-door in your neighborhood? Here are other ways to participate: Reverse Trick-or-Treat at a Halloween event in your community with your free kit; call schools, congregations, or youth groups in your community and invite them to participate in Reverse Trick-or-Treating; download official printable fliers here and post them in your neighborhood to promote awareness of Fair Trade chocolate in your community; and, of course, purchase Fair Trade certified chocolate to distribute from your own door on Halloween at the Global Exchange Online Store!
NEXT ACTION: Fair Trade Holiday Caroling in November!
PREVIOUS ACTION: Fair Trade S'mores all Summer Long
Watch "We Want More From Our S'mores 2008" below!
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FAIR TRADE CAMPAIGN
Why Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is the alternative to the misbegotten trade policies we condemned in Seattle. Fair Trade certification empowers democratically-organized farmer cooperatives to escape poverty, while protecting workers and the environment. Participants in Global Exchange’s Fair Trade campaign support these courageous farmers from some of the remotest spots on the planet, who are standing up against exploitation by transforming trade, one cocoa or coffee bean at a time!
How do I help?
Take action by Reverse Trick-or-Treating! On Halloween, kids (and adults!) on their trick-or-treating rounds will give chocolate back to every household. Promote Fair Trade by handing out Fair Trade certified chocolate attached to a card informing your neighbors about exploitation in the cocoa industry, including forced child labor, and how Fair Trade provides an alternative.
THE FIVE STEPS
1. REQUEST your FREE Reverse Trick-or-Treating kit! (Order now! Last year we ran out weeks before Halloween! Deadline for individual kits is October 13; the deadline for groups, such as schools, congregations, and youth groups, is October 1.) Each kit consists of 20-25 pieces of Fair Trade chocolate and information cards.
2. USE our email tool to invite friends and relatives with kids to sign up for Reverse Trick-or-Treating, too!
3. DREAM up a FUN costume! You're still a trick-or-treater!
4. Trick-or-Treating with kids? READ Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Cocoa Book to your kids a day or two before Trick-or-Treating, to help them understand social justice issues in the cocoa industry and the significance of taking action for Fair Trade.
5. GO door to door on Halloween and hand each household you visit a card with some Fair Trade chocolate! When you’re done, savor your accomplishment over a cup of Fair Trade hot cocoa!
Not personally comfortable walking door-to-door in your neighborhood? Here are other ways to participate: Reverse Trick-or-Treat at a Halloween event in your community with your free kit; call schools, congregations, or youth groups in your community and invite them to participate in Reverse Trick-or-Treating; download official printable fliers here and post them in your neighborhood to promote awareness of Fair Trade chocolate in your community; and, of course, purchase Fair Trade certified chocolate to distribute from your own door on Halloween at the Global Exchange Online Store!
NEXT ACTION: Fair Trade Holiday Caroling in November!
Watch "We Want More From Our S'mores 2008" below!
HAVE YOU TAKEN ACTION?
POST YOUR VIDEO OR PHOTO OF YOURSELF REVERSE TRICK-OR-TREATING
IN THE "FAIR TRADE ACTION PARTICIPANTS" PAGE!
Send your photo/video and story and your mailing address to fairtrade@globalexchange.org!
SUBJECT: "I took action!"
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15
Our favorite 50 postings will receive a limited edition lapel pin designed by renowned artist Shepard Fairey and his Studio Number One.
POST YOUR VIDEO OR PHOTO OF YOURSELF REVERSE TRICK-OR-TREATING
IN THE "FAIR TRADE ACTION PARTICIPANTS" PAGE!
Send your photo/video and story and your mailing address to fairtrade@globalexchange.org!
SUBJECT: "I took action!"
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15
Our favorite 50 postings will receive a limited edition lapel pin designed by renowned artist Shepard Fairey and his Studio Number One.
HOW TO POST A RESPONSE: Go to www.wetpaint.com and sign up for a FREE account. Once you've signed in, go to http://fiveactions.wetpaint.com/ to start editing!
To make edits in Wetpaint on our Action Participants pages, just click the Easy Edit (
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To make edits in Wetpaint on our Action Participants pages, just click the Easy Edit (
) button above the page title. This will open the EasyEdit Toolbar.To add photos, click on the Photo (
) button.Click on "Upload New Photos" and you will be able to place your photos on the page. You can even wrap text around them with a description, or insert mouseover text!
To upload a video, you will first need an account on YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, or other video sites. Click on the Widgets (
) button to open the Add Widget menu.If you wish to post a YouTube video, for example, click "Select" under the YouTube icon and then click on "Add URL or Embed." There you can paste your video's URL or embed code. You can resize the video to your liking. Just remember, the video won't show up until you click "Save" on the menu.
To add a link, simply type in the word, phrase or sentence - highlight it and press the link button in the "Easy Edit Toolbar." Pressing the link button will automatically open the box that you will send the link to. Add the URL and press the "Add Link" button.
When you're done, hit "Save" and you'll see it on the newly edited page!
Click here to get started.
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