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Cedar Lane Memorial Day Festival

Stop by our booth at the Memorial Day Festival on Cedar Lane!

Monthly Steering Committee Meeting

Join us for our monthly meeting. As always, newcomers are welcome! This month we will be meeting a the Ethical Culture Society.

Lecture and Coffee Tasting with LJ Taylor from Equal Exchange

Celebrate World Fair Trade Day by joining us at the Teaneck General Store for a lecture by LJ Taylor, Chair of Equal Exchange’s Board of Directors. Taylor will discuss the virtues and importance of Fair Trade and the many complexities in producing the perfect cup of coffee. Taylor, who previously worked for Starbucks and has […]

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Fair Trade Schools: How Millennials are Combatting Child Slave Labor

Every child deserves an education.  But, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), child labor is a reality for 168 million boys and girls in Latin America, Africa and Asia.  Can you imagine your son, daughter, niece, nephew, neighbor or YOU picking cocoa beans instead of going to school? It’s easier than you think to […]

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Fair Trade in Costa Rica – A Student’s Perspective

About our Guest Blogger: Suzi Kondic is a Sophomore at Tulane University. She spent the Spring 2014 semester in Costa Rica through Tulane’s study abroad  program and had the opportunity to visit a Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative (CoopeTarrazu). Below she shares some of what she learned through the experience.  “I have always thought of myself […]

Bake Fair for World Fair Trade Day!

The top two favorites from Santa Rosa’s World Fair Trade Day Bake Fair contest were the Funky Town Fudge and Oma’s Molasses cookies and both used three fair trade ingredients. Thanks to the wonderful judges: Evelyn Cheatham of Worth Our Weight, Brian Andersen of Bistro 29, Milinda Stewart of Olivers Market, and Gary Wysocky Santa […]

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Valentine’s Day Chocolate Sales and Education

In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, the Fair Trade team sold Fair Trade chocolate after the Sunday liturgies on Feb 2 and Feb 9, 2014. A half page handout, ” Get Child Labor Out Of Your Chocolates” was distributed. This presented the problem in West Africa; presented the Fair Trade Principals and logos:;and listed local businesses […]

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Fair Trade and Faith

On Feb 7, 2014 the OLA Fair Trade Ministry made a one hour presentation, Fair Trade and Faith, to a local chapter of Church Women United.(CW U). CW U is “A national ecumenical movement of Christian women in the United States whose life centers around prayer, Bible study, advocacy and action”. Forty women representing about […]