Blog: December 2008

Caroling for Fair Trade

December 3, 2008

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum

As the holiday season kicks in to high gear, Global Exchange is sponsoring a fun Fair Trade Holiday Caroling action.  You can check out their website to download an toolkit complete with your favorite holiday songs re-written with a fair trade twist.  They are also asking people to sign New Year's Resolutions to buy fair trade gifts for their loved ones this year. 

In Good Times and Bad, Unions offer Women Hope and Equality

December 2, 2008

And, as we continue to see the financial systems and banking giants saved, most
remedies are designed without women in mind and are ignoring the real impact,
especially on women of color in the United States. Recently, women and
poverty advocates organized “A Day of Voices: Women's Tribunal on Poverty” in New York. At that
meeting, the disparate impact of the downturn was highlighted:

Oliveira estimated that for every Wall Street job that will
be lost in coming weeks and months, three service-level employees are fired.
"There's an incredible ripple effect way beyond the specific jobs that are
counted in the financial sector," she said.

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