World Fair Trade Day 09 May 09
The impact you make is immense.
A simple thing like buying a product has consequences far beyond feeding your family, making you feel good or giving you something new to talk about. Buying a product, whether it's the fruit of one person's labour or the result of super-efficient mechanization is a vote for the organization that provided you with the product.
To you it’s just a banana, just a T-shirt, or just a bar of soap; to a business it's a response to consumer demand, and money in the bank for investors. But poverty, climate change and financial crisis are the result of the products we buy and the businesses we choose to support.
If you buy Fair Trade products, change becomes inevitable. It's not complicated - if it were there wouldn't be so many powerful businesses in the world. You are powerful. You are the change. You already knew that, didn't you?
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is a salute to the people and organizations who have dedicated themselves to making Fair Trade what it is today, a solution not an issue. Fair Trade is not just about poverty, it's a solution to poverty, Fair Trade is not just about climate change, it's a solution to environmental degradation and bad practice. Fair Trade is not just about protest, it's about change. Change that’s long overdue.
World Fair Trade Day 2009 is dedicated to you and the positive impact you can make in your community, through local and global events, that unite people and opinion, in a voice that can be heard wherever you are, whoever you are. Grassroots to G8.
It’s a Big Day for the Planet. Unite with millions of people and be the powerful voice of positive change. Tell the world you want an end to poverty, an end to climate change and the beginning of sustainable living. World Fair Trade Day is your global stage.
A Big Day for the Planet. 09 May 09
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BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 World Fair Trade Day - What are you doing to kick-start the sustainable economy?
On the 9th May Fair Traders around the world step up to launch the Sustainable Economy with BIG BANG!! There are hundreds of events registered and 1000s planned. 9 cities from the Pacific through Asia, Africa and the US will showcase events and circle the earth with drumming The motivation is straightforward. Beat poverty, beat climate change, beat economic crisis. World Fair Trade Day is backed by the World Fair Trade Organization and supported by 110 million people including Desmond Tutu, Sir Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Dudu Sarr, Sigur Ross, STOMP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-tYIMOoqk&feature=email and, of course, the G20, who are demanding a fair and sustainable world economy. 09 MAY 09. Register your event. http://www.worldfairtradeday09.org/
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