Mar 28 2007
According to Global Exchange, the Easter Bunny is choosing Fair Trade Chocolate this year, and he encourages you to do the same. Here’s the press release they sent. It’s good to remember social change can be fun, and tasty! Continue Reading »
Dec 13 2006
Join ICPJ’s Globalization Task Force on Thursday, January 25 for the next installment of our “Dinner and a Movie” series.
This moth we screen Buyer Be Fair, which explores how conscious consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on Fair Trade coffee and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor, 608 E. William St.
Free and open to the public. Pay Parking available at the Maynard Street Structure between Liberty St. and Williams St.
Details: info@icpj.net, 734-663-1870, www.icpj.net
Film details at: www.buyerbefair.org
This event is co-sponsored with the Ann Arbor People’s Food Co-op and Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE)
Oct 25 2006
Come get briefed on the Jubilee Act (H.R. 1130), which expresses a much broader vision for debt cancellation than the deal reached at the 2005 G-8 summit and would commit the U.S. to work for debt cancellation for 50 impoverished nations without devastating economic conditions; to write letters to our representatives encouraging support of the Jubilee Act, and to eat breakfast. When: 7:30 a.m. Where: The Broken Egg, 221 N. Main St., Ann Arbor
Oct 25 2006
Debt and the Millennium Development Goals
Thursday, October 26, 2006; 7:00 p.m.
St. Clare’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor
A stop on the Jubilee Network’s 2006 Global Connections Tour Continue Reading »
Aug 24 2006
Do you want to do something to change the course of economic globalization? If you do, then join the Globalization Task Force for one of our “Making a Better World Breakfasts”. At these gatherings, we will be briefed about an issue related to globalization, write letters on the topic to our political representatives, enjoy good conversation, and of course, eat breakfast.
The first “Making a Better World Breakfast” will take place from 7:30am until 8:30am on Thursday September 7th at the Broken Egg, 221 North Main St. At the September breakfast we will learn more about and write about Bread for the World’s 2006 Offering of Letters. The 2006 Offering of Letters seeks significant increases in poverty-focused development assistance to meet the Millenium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme hunger and poverty by half and substantially improve health, education, and livelihoods in developing countries by 2015.
Aug 17 2006
Please join us for a film showing and light dinner, with discussion afterwards. The Global Banquet exposes globalization’s profoundly damaging effect on our food system and reveals how agribusiness squeezes out small farmers and how trade liberalization undercuts subsistence farming –in the U.S. as well as the developing world.
