UAlbany Fair Trade Alliance Presents:
Fair Trade for a Fair World!
Wednesday, Feb. 11th, 2009
4pm: Participatory Art Installation
5-7pm: Fair Trade Event
Assembly Hall, Campus Center, UAlbany
Participating Groups: UAlbany Fair Trade Alliance, Honest Weight Food Co-op, Mango Tree, Mayan Hands
For more info contact: uafairtradealliance@gmail.com
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Press Release: Fair Trade for a Fair World!!
Press Release:
U ALBANY FAIR TRADE ALLIANCE PRESENTS:
“FAIR TRADE FOR A FAIR WORLD”
The UAlbany Fair Trade Alliance will host presentations and conversations between the Alliance, Fair Trade organizations and UAlbany students, staff, and faculty will from 5:00pm – 7:00 pm on February 11, 2009. A participatory art installation on “Why, Fair Trade?” begins at 4:00pm that same day. The U Albany Fair Trade Alliance hopes to inspire open dialogue on “How to Create a Fair Trade University at UAlbany?” Participating organizations include: The Honest Weight Food Co-op, Mayan Hands, The Mango Tree, and many others that will describe how they participate and work toward Fair Trade. The Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is one of the sponsors along with other co-sponsoring departments on the campus.
The main goals of this gathering are:
1) To share information on and make known the importance of Fair Trade among the members of the UAlbany community;
2) To express that there is a strong desire within the UAlbany community of promoting Fair Trade within Social Justice and Sustainability efforts;
3) To build alliances between individuals and groups interested in promoting Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Justice, both within and outside UAlbany.
Date: Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Time: 4pm – 7pm
4pm - 5pm: Participatory Art Installation
5pm - 7pm: Fair Trade Presentations and Fair
Where: University at Albany,
Campus Center, Assembly Hall,
1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222
Cost: Free – All welcome, open to the public
Contact: Fair Trade Alliance UAFairTradeAlliance@Gmail.com
Patricia Pinho
Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
Phone: 442-4893 E-Mail Address: ppinho@albany.edu
Deborah LaFond
Associate Librarian, Social Sciences Bibliographer
Phone: 442-3599 E-Mail Address: Dlafond@uamail.albany.edu
On February 11, 2009 from 9:20-11:20am, Professor Pinho will offer a lecture on Fair Trade at the University at Albany, Social Sciences Building, Room 134.
UALBANY FAIR TRADE ALLIANCE
We are a UAlbany alliance working to create a Fair Trade University. We invite you to get involved in this process that combines activism and scholarship.
Fair trade is an ethical, transparent and co-responsible relationship among all the participants in the productive chain, and it requires that producers receive a fair payment for their work, thus challenging those economic relations in which the middlemen make the greatest profit. Fair Trade allows workers to support workers, both locally (e.g. through domestic Fair Trade such as Farmers’ Markets), and transnationally since it is an important means of improving the quality of life of impoverished people in developing countries.
Because the university is a space of intellectual reflection it is potentially imbued with the ethical and political commitment to promoting global equality and justice. “Fair trade status” has been applied in the UK and Canada to schools, colleges, universities, and even to entire towns. This movement is increasing in the US. UAlbany can be at the forefront of this process because it has been historically committed to the principles of humane working conditions for workers all over the world. The main goal of this status consists in calling the attention of students, staff, faculty and the general public to the inequality within international trade. Fair Trade is a means to overcome this inequality.
For online information see: http://www.UAFairTradeAlliance.Blogspot.com
U ALBANY FAIR TRADE ALLIANCE PRESENTS:
“FAIR TRADE FOR A FAIR WORLD”
The UAlbany Fair Trade Alliance will host presentations and conversations between the Alliance, Fair Trade organizations and UAlbany students, staff, and faculty will from 5:00pm – 7:00 pm on February 11, 2009. A participatory art installation on “Why, Fair Trade?” begins at 4:00pm that same day. The U Albany Fair Trade Alliance hopes to inspire open dialogue on “How to Create a Fair Trade University at UAlbany?” Participating organizations include: The Honest Weight Food Co-op, Mayan Hands, The Mango Tree, and many others that will describe how they participate and work toward Fair Trade. The Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is one of the sponsors along with other co-sponsoring departments on the campus.
The main goals of this gathering are:
1) To share information on and make known the importance of Fair Trade among the members of the UAlbany community;
2) To express that there is a strong desire within the UAlbany community of promoting Fair Trade within Social Justice and Sustainability efforts;
3) To build alliances between individuals and groups interested in promoting Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Justice, both within and outside UAlbany.
Date: Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Time: 4pm – 7pm
4pm - 5pm: Participatory Art Installation
5pm - 7pm: Fair Trade Presentations and Fair
Where: University at Albany,
Campus Center, Assembly Hall,
1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222
Cost: Free – All welcome, open to the public
Contact: Fair Trade Alliance UAFairTradeAlliance@Gmail.com
Patricia Pinho
Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
Phone: 442-4893 E-Mail Address: ppinho@albany.edu
Deborah LaFond
Associate Librarian, Social Sciences Bibliographer
Phone: 442-3599 E-Mail Address: Dlafond@uamail.albany.edu
On February 11, 2009 from 9:20-11:20am, Professor Pinho will offer a lecture on Fair Trade at the University at Albany, Social Sciences Building, Room 134.
UALBANY FAIR TRADE ALLIANCE
We are a UAlbany alliance working to create a Fair Trade University. We invite you to get involved in this process that combines activism and scholarship.
Fair trade is an ethical, transparent and co-responsible relationship among all the participants in the productive chain, and it requires that producers receive a fair payment for their work, thus challenging those economic relations in which the middlemen make the greatest profit. Fair Trade allows workers to support workers, both locally (e.g. through domestic Fair Trade such as Farmers’ Markets), and transnationally since it is an important means of improving the quality of life of impoverished people in developing countries.
Because the university is a space of intellectual reflection it is potentially imbued with the ethical and political commitment to promoting global equality and justice. “Fair trade status” has been applied in the UK and Canada to schools, colleges, universities, and even to entire towns. This movement is increasing in the US. UAlbany can be at the forefront of this process because it has been historically committed to the principles of humane working conditions for workers all over the world. The main goal of this status consists in calling the attention of students, staff, faculty and the general public to the inequality within international trade. Fair Trade is a means to overcome this inequality.
For online information see: http://www.UAFairTradeAlliance.Blogspot.com
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