5.06.17 fair trade

Placing So Much Hope on So Little: The World's First Fair Trade Zone

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Authors: Alyson Lie

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The worker-owners of a Nicaraguan sewing cooperative have faced Hurricane Mitch, homelessness, unemployment, power outages, mistrust, professional disputes, and global capitalism. The cooperative thrives.

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Resources on Democratic, Participatory, and Equitable Enterprises

Authors: Erbin Crowell Kristin Howard

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Listings for federations of workers cooperatives, food cooperatives, community development credit unions, fair trade enterprises, and intentional communities. Plus, more to read.

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Just Garments: A Worker-Organized Factory Challenges Sweatshops

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Authors: Liana Foxvog

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When the Salvadoran workers tried to unionize, Tainan, a Taiwanese company, closed the factory. Union workers took over the factory themselves.

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Building Community: Building Global Justice

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Authors: Jake Miller

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Grassroots International has developed a program of grantmaking that is designed to provide critical support to the most exciting social change organizations in the global south, particularly rural movements that are struggling for the right to food, land and water. Some of these movements began as confederations of cooperatives, while others originated as movements that created cooperatives in order to organize production...

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Globalization, Co-op Style

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Authors: Jane Livingston

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If we were going to run our own store, what would we never allow to happen to each other?

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