Noon What Is Fair Trade?
Join Co-op America’s Fair Trade Program as we explore commerce that focuses on producer empowerment, equality and economic development.

1pm Make Your City Sweat Free!
Global Exchange’s Valerie Orth and Elisabeth Swager will share how your city or town can adopt laws that prohibit local institutions from purchasing goods made in sweatshops. Together, we can create a substantial market for goods made by workers who get paid a living wage, are treated with dignity and respect, and have a voice on the job.

2pm Fair Trade Crafts
Learn about the origins of Fair Trade from 10,000 Villages, one of the first Fair Trade businesses in the country. Discover a world of beautifully hand-crafted gifts and the people they support.

3pm Making Your Campus Fair Trade
Students from United Students for Fair Trade come together to discuss how to bring Fair Trade products to your school.

4pm Alter Eco: Fair Trade Chocolate & Rice
Join Alter Eco for sweet treats and take a trip through the chocolate and rice producing communities in which they work.

5pm Eco-Certified Fair Trade Sports
Seattle’s Scott James will offer up ways to kick sweatshops off the playing field with eco-certified Fair Trade sports balls and uniforms.

Sunday
Noon Fair Trade in Palestine:
A Vehicle for Social and Economic Empowerment Diane Adkin of Canaan Fair Trade will discuss her work with the olive farmers of the Palestinian Fair Trade Association. Participants will enjoy samples of Canaan’s Olive Oil.

1pm Fair Trade Cocoa
Calling all Chocolate Lovers! Adrienne Fitch-Frankel of Global Exchange will share the story of chocolate and how you can protect the planet, support the efforts of cocoa farmers to build a bright future for their children, and help bring an end to abusive child labor in the cocoa fields…just by taking a few simple steps, like eating  Fair Trade chocolate! Sweet!

2pm Fully Committed Fair Trade Businesses
What makes a business Fair Trade? Scott James of Fair Trade Sports and the Fair Trade Federation will examine how local business practices impact producers a world away.

3pm Domestic Fair Trade
Grace Cox of the Domestic Fair Trade Association will lead a discussion on how to apply the principles of Fair Trade to the domestic marketplace and help to empower family farmers in our country.