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Spitfire Girl

Gifts, home goods, jewelry, and apparel.

Zambezi Bazaar

Located in Leimert Park on West 43rd Street Boulevard in Los Angeles, is Zambezi Bazaar, a family operated retail store that sells African American themed merchandise. The Kimbrough family opened and operated in the Leimert Park community over 20 years. Jackie Ryan is continuing the traditions of the original location, as the owner and operator […]

Fall BHS Club Fair

Participated in Berkeley High School’s Club Fair on September 30, 2015, to talk about Fair Trade and recruit new members for the Fair Trade Club.

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Coffee

Fair Trade coffee from Equal Exchange, Archer Farms , Green Mountain, Paul Newman and Kirkland are used in the staff lounge and during various events on campus.

Fair Trade Organic T-Shirts

Our school chose Hae Now Organic T-shirts for our 2016 “Walk with Francis” Walkathon 2016. Organic cotton is GMO free, grown without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and chemical defoliants. The processing uses less resources and is free of heavy metal dyes and harsh chemicals. The end product is a sustainable, comfortable shirt that does […]

Fair Trade Thwing Tuesday

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Fair Trade Resolution

http://ascsurecords.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Resolution-4514-Fair-Trade-University-Certification.pdf

Barnes and Nobel Bookstore

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2015 Los Angeles Super Green Shopper Prize Winner

Nancy Dunitz, a member of Fair Trade LA, won the Super Green Shopper Prize from the LA Green Festival. She is fully supportive of FTLA and its campaign to make LA the largest Fair Trade. “I have operated a wholesale #fairtrade fashion business for over 25 years and am a proud member of Fair Trade […]

Social responsibility in the marketplace

One cannot stress enough the importance of awareness and education to make socially responsible choices in the marketplace. People have to know enough to ask why. Once you know, you can’t un-know. The whole value of everything Fair Trade LA does is education, as broadly as we can do it, whether it’s showing them products, […]

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Fair Trade Classroom Presentation

An interfaith group made a presentation to eighth graders in the our church’s school. 75 students attended. They were shown a video of fair trade artisans at work. They were told a story about a fair trade artisan in Bangladesh. They were allowed to inspect fair trade products (ceramic bowls from Vietnam). This presentation was […]

Fair Trade Tea

Hoot Market

The Hoot Market offers grab-and-go meal options, as well as coffee, tea, snacks, and household items.