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  1. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
  2. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  3. Cotton-pickin trade
    US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
  4. Edible Action
    Food Activism and Alternative Economics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  5. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
  6. Fair trade
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries and promote sustainability.
  7. Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
  8. Hundreds of engineering students to 'freeze' in Toronto to advance fair trade
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Hundreds of socially-active engineering students from across Canada, including the University of Waterloo, will raise public awareness about the fair trade movement at a special event in downtown
    Toronto as part of the Engineers Without Borders Nati
  9. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  10. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  11. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Sharing as our common cause
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
  13. Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
  14. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
  15. Zatoun
    Organization profile published 2008

    Resource Type: Organization
    Distributes olive oil from occupied Palestine and highlights the plight of Palestinian farmers and the destruction of their livelihood. Olive oil is a basic food which reminds us of our common humanity and the need for justice and peace. Web site: http://www.zatoun.com.
  16. Zatoun
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  17. Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
    What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine?

    Resource Type: Article
    Working for Zatoun has been one of the most sustainable activisms that I have ever done.

Experts on Fair Trade in the Sources Directory

  1. International Forum on Globalization
  2. Zatoun


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