Take the Fair Trade Valentine's Day Pledge

Dear Friends,

This Valentine’s Day, make your gift of love one that keeps giving with Fair Trade Certified Flowers, chocolate and wine.

By purchasing Fair Trade Certified flowers, you are helping to guarantee that flower workers, like Nancy Segovia of Agrogandera, receive fair wages, a safe work environment, paid vacation, maternity and sick leave, and access to child care.

By purchasing Fair Trade Certified chocolate, you are helping Fair Trade farmers like Eugine of the Kavokiva cooperative in the Ivory Coast, improve their living conditions and fight against child labor.

Your purchase of Fair Trade Certified wine is helping farm workers like Marie Malan move from earlier work as a domestic servant to the esteemed position of Farm Manager at Stellar Organics, an award winning vineyard in South Africa.

Please join us in helping to build a better life for the world’s farmers and farm workers by pledging to choose only Fair Trade Certified products this Valentine’s Day and forwarding this message to family and friends.

Take the pledge today and receive 15% off your next purchase of a Fair Trade Certified bouquet from 1-800-Flowers!

To find out more about where you can find Fair Trade Certified wine, chocolate and flowers for Valentine’s Day or to order your own online visit

Fall in love with Fair Trade Certified!

Change.org

Change.org is a social entrepreneurship venture based in San Francisco, CA.

Today as citizens of the world, we face a daunting array of social and environmental problems ranging from health care and education to global warming and economic inequality. For each of these issues, whether local or global in scope, there are millions of people who care passionately about working for change but lack the information and opportunities necessary to translate their interest into effective action.

Change.org aims to address this need by serving as the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time.

You can find FT news, information, non-profits and a number of useful resources here:

http://fairtrade.change.org/

Happy New Year

A very happy and prosperous new year to everyone! You may not have seen or heard from us much in the past few weeks but we've been working on a plan of action for 2009 and we will be posting the details here as they become available. One of our eventual goals is to get the City Council to pass a resolution in support of Fair Trade (FT) and we are devising a strategy to make that happen in the coming months. We will also be showcasing new FT products, talking to business about switching to FT, gathering support on the OU petition and much more. Stay tuned for more information.