Lead for Change Blog

Spooky Ice Creme Social

October 30, 2014

we are hosting an ice creme social to help spread the word that Ben&Jerry’s is Fair Trade and to celebrate the festive holiday!!

Fair Trade Pics with Chocolate

October 30, 2014

It was an event when held during our starting weeks of a new semester!! it was a way for us to introduce Fair Trade not only as a club but as a movement working to support and a voice on campus!!

Connected by Coffee Movie

October 29, 2014

Connected by Coffee MOvie was a combination SAVE student group from Richard Stockton College and the South Jersey Fair TRade Alliance organization. The Fair trade movie had great discussion after the movie.

Go green Galloway showed Green HOrn movie

October 29, 2014

At the Galloway Library in Galloway on October1,2014 we showed the movie GreenHorns about young American farmers working on small farms all over the USA countryside, growing organic, raising sheep and tilling the land and growing and selling vegetables. We served fair trade coffee and had packets of fair trade sugar too! We had over […]

Human Trafficking and Fair Trade

October 25, 2014

Nancy Irizarry, Winnebago County Social Services Director of the Wisconsin Resource Center and Co-chair of the Wisconsin Anti-Human Trafficking consortium and Fond du Lac Fair Trade Towns Committee Member will present a talk on Human Trafficking and the role Fair Trade plays in preventing and rescuing people from slavery and the sex industry. Just Fare […]

Free Continental breakfast to meet Anak Norm, the General Manager of VillageWorks in Cambodia.

October 25, 2014

Just Fare Market invites you to a free continental breakfast and an opportunity to meet Anak Norm, the General Manager of VillageWorks in Cambodia, at the former Gift N’ Gab – next to Just Fare Market Anak will give a power point presentation about the work of over 60 experienced producers in the villages surrounding […]

Fair Trade Fiesta

October 24, 2014

2nd Annual Fair Trade Fiesta Global Hand-Crafted Sales Event! Fri Nov 8 from 5-8 pm & Sat Nov 9 from 10-5. Green Earth Community Room, 4 Market St, Oneonta, Hand-woven textiles, batiked & dyed silk scarves, purses, clothing and home goods, embroidery art, wall hangings, jewelry, holiday ornaments, baskets meditation items and more from Mexico, […]

Fair Trade Fiesta

October 24, 2014

2nd Annual Fair Trade Fiesta Global Hand-Crafted Sales Event! Fri Nov 8 from 5-8 pm & Sat Nov 9 from 10-5. Green Earth Community Room, 4 Market St, Oneonta, Hand-woven textiles, batiked & dyed silk scarves, purses, clothing and home goods, embroidery art, wall hangings, jewelry, holiday ornaments, baskets meditation items and more from Mexico, […]

Share the Journey Celebration

October 23, 2014

Join us as we formally celebrate as a community the recognition of Hartwick as the 25th Fair Trade College! Listen to President Drugovich, Professor O’Donnell, and student organizers share the journey towards Fair Trade recognition. Refreshments and fair trade certified coffee and tea will be served.

Catholic Relief Services Ambassador Training

October 21, 2014

“Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We are motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to cherish, preserve and uphold the sacredness and dignity of all human life, foster charity and justice, and embody Catholic social and moral teaching as […]

Fair Trade Fair

October 17, 2014

Outside vendors, as well as students, bring their fair trade items to either sell or just share with the Cal Lutheran student body. We will have vendors such as Fair Trade LA, Colores del Pueblo, Dr. Bronners Magic Soap, Pura Vida Bracelets, and a few others. The fair is all about educating the student body […]

Speaking of Food–Coffee Ties the World Together (and Why Your Coffee Choices Matter)

October 16, 2014

Most adults in the USA drink coffee at least occasionally, but few know much about coffee’s social, economic, and environmental impacts. Globally, coffee is one of the world’s most valuable commodities, but it is produced by some of the poorest people. It has little nutritional value, yet it dominates some of the planet’s most fertile […]

The Price of Sugar Screening

October 16, 2014

Part of the fair trade film series for Themester.

Winds of Change Radio Show

October 15, 2014

The Office of Peace and Justice was interviewed on the Winds of Change Catholic Radio Show, reaching 1,000 listeners. We talked about Fair Trade and the Catholic Faith.

Winds of Change Radio Show

October 15, 2014

The Office of Peace and Justice was interviewed on the Winds of Change Catholic Radio Show, reaching 1,000 listeners. We talked about Fair Trade and the Catholic Faith.

Reverse Trick or Treating Maria Carrillo High School

October 15, 2014

WHO: Two hundred residents in Santa Rosa will be visited by students of Maria Carrillo High School’s Amnesty International Club on Halloween October 31 to deliver a scary message about chocolate. WHAT: Instead of the traditional receiving of candy, young people will be going door to door giving away fair trade chocolate to residents and […]

Faith and Fraps: Lunch Retreat

October 15, 2014

We will be presenting at the Cardinal Meyer Pastoral Center on Fair Trade and why it is important to us because of our faith, lead a meditation on the coffee process, and we will be giving out Fair Trade Frappes.

Bananaland Screening

October 14, 2014

Screening of the film Bananaland. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence, and pesticide poison. How can workers, producers, and consumers address the disparate realities of banana consumers and producers? Introduced by Fair Trade Bloomington