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Brew up a cup and be part of the World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break on May 9.
Thu, Apr 09 2009 at 6:26 PM
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Your mind’s probably on Earth Day plans right now, but fair trade activists want you thinking about World Fair Trade Day on May 9 — and are even giving away freebies to get you to plan ahead.Why? Fair trade activists in the U.S. are trying to set a record for the World’s Largest Fair Trade Coffee Break — a title currently held by Finland, which got just over 50,000 participants to participate. Of course, such a huge event takes a lot of planning — which is why the Fair Trade Resource Network and its partners are offering lots of goodies to get you started NOW.
In fact, if you register a World Fair Trade Day event on FTRN’s website by April 30, you’ll get free fair trade shwag: a soccer ball, music bells, enough coffee to brew 70 cups, and other great stuff! The first 500 early birds will even get a free fair trade Kenyan Dancing Girl pin from Gifts With Humanity.
Don’t have the time to plan an event yourself but still want to participate? Find a coffee break near you on FTRN’s calendar, and enjoy a cuppa with fellow social justice activists and coffee lovers.
Image: Courtesy fairtraderesource.org
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i guess i wonder why they are giving away stuff when we should be reducing, reusing, recycling. i say- bring your own mug and leave the swag. seriously.
This is ridiculous. I shouldn't have to pay a penny more for coffee than the market says I do.
You hippies should listen to your vinyl records and smoke weed instead.
...on an attitude that has nearly destroyed the coffee industry, decimated millions of acres of rain forest and contributed to the boom and bust of about a dozen small countries whose economy depends on coffee. If I want to pay a premium price for premium coffee instead of drinking the swill the multinational food conglomerates want to pass off as "coffee", I shouldn't have to listen to some idiot that thinks the market "says" anything worth hearing.