Upcoming
Trade Events
October
Nationwide: Fair
Trade Month 2005 - Celebrate Fair Trade Month and help
raise consumer awareness across the nation.
10/10
Milwaukee
: Celebrate Fair Trade with a Video and Presentation at
6:15 pm
in the
Milwaukee
Art Museum
, Lubar Auditorium. The
event will kick off with the screening of a documentary-type
videohighlighting the relationship between Alterra Coffee Roasters and
Kulantik, a Fair Trade Certified cooperative comprised of indigenous
Mayan farmers in southern
Mexico
. Afterwards, attendees will be invited to sample a variety of Fair
Trade Certified products offered by Outpost, Alterra, and Rishi. For
more information, please contact Al Liu at aliu@alterracoffee.com
or 414.273.3747.
10/10 --
Rockford
,
IL
: Coffee Talk: Fair trade
at the New Fair-Trade Store at
7:30 pm
at
201 Seventh Street
. Tour the building and preview the merchandise. We will try to have
someone from Ten Thousand Villages give an overview of fair trade
& the items. You may meet our new store manager, as well. Coffee
Talks are free and open to the public. Fair-traded organic and
delicious coffee provided. Coffee Talks are sponsored by Rockford
Peace & Justice Action Committee with an assist from Rockford
Urban Ministries, the Social Responsibilities Committee of the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockford, and friends of the late
George LaForest and Rev. John Breck. Contact: Peaceman50@aol.com
10/11
Stillwater
,
MN
: Talk on
China
trade: "
Minnesota
's China Strategy" is the subject of the next Conversations of
the Valley, a public affairs lunch forum sponsored by the St. Croix
Valley Community Foundation. The program will be held from
11:30 a.m.
to
1 p.m.
Tuesday at the Lowell Inn,
Stillwater
. Guest speaker is Tony Lorusso, director of the Minnesota Trade
Office and a key figure in organizing
Minnesota
's trade delegation to
China
in November 2005. Cost of the lunch and program is $15. To make a
reservation, call the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation
information and reservation line at 651-430-3830.
10/13 to 10/15 --
Milwaukee
: Catholic Archdiocese Education Conference.
10/22-1-/23
Central Wisconsin
: From
the Land Folk Art Festival at the homestead farm of Jan
and Ray Londowski at W1648 County Trunk J.
10/27 to 10/29 -- WAEE Fall Conference 2005.
"EE History in Action". Celebrating 30 Years of
Environmental Education in
Wisconsin
.
UW-Madison
Pyle
Center
. For more information contact Dolly Ledin at daledin@wisc.edu
11/3 to 11/5
Fond du Lac
: Wisconsin Institute conference at
Marian
College
. http://www.uwsp.edu/history/WIPCS/WIPCS1.htm
11/4
Milwaukee
: CTA will organize a rally related to stopping sweatshops. They
are looking for suggestions from
Milwaukee
organizers on targets for the event. If you have suggestions, contact
Mauro Pineda at 773-404-0004 x7 or mauro@cta-usa.org
National
Events
October
Nationwide: Fair
Trade Month 2005 - Celebrate Fair Trade Month and help
raise consumer awareness across the nation.
10/31 to 11/7
Guatemala
: Central American and Women's Congress Activists Delegation.
Join more than 100 Central American and Caribbean Women leaders as
they generate strategies to deal with the impact of CAFTA.
Contact Ana Perez for more information at ana@globalexchange.org
12/13 to 12/15 Hong
Kong Fair Trade Symposium. After a highly successful
Fair Trade Fair and Sustainable Trade Symposium at the WTO Ministerial
in Cancϊn 2003 (archives), a
coalition of organizations will hold a similar event in
Hong Kong
for the sixth WTO ministerial in December 2005. More at www.fairtradeexpo.org
Events
2006
January 2006 --
Caracas
: Polycentric 6th World Social Forum -
Americas
Chapter and the 2nd
Americas
Social Forum.
April 2006
Minneapolis
: SweatFree Communities Annual Conference,
April 7-9, 2006
. Learn sweatfree organizing skills and strategize together with
activists from across the
U.S.
and beyond. Check out the report from our 2005 conference here...
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