Fair Trade Coffee Farmer - Thurs Oct 21st 7pm 10-485

Earth day - 67
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

SLJ will be hosting a Coffee Farmer from Peru. He will be speaking at MIT at 7pm in room 10-485.

We will also be presenting some background on Fair Trade Coffee and our successful MIT campaign.

Fair Trade Coffee will be provided and possibly Fair Trade chocolate for sale.

Fwd: We carry sweatshop free clothing

> From: Julie Baerwald
> Subject: We carry sweatshop free clothing
> Hello Students for Labor Justice Team,
> We completely support your cause!
> We are a new t-shirt company (www.protoculture.com) and we sell only
> sweatshop free apparel.  We'd like to be listed as an alternative
> clothing source for your readers on this page of your website:
> http://web.mit.edu/labor/www/clothing.html
>
> Please let us know what we can do to help. Thank you,
> Julie
> =================
> Julie Baerwald
> Co-Founder and Partner, Protoculture
> www.protoculture.com
> Tel: (310) 659-8773
> Fax: (310) 659-1414

Order Fair Trade Chocolate?

Hi all,
Serrv international, the place that we ordered Fair Trade Chocolate
from last semester has chocolate back in stock. Do we want to order
some chocolate now to sell for the rest of the semester?
If we order soon we can get it in time for the coffee farmer event.

https://www.serrv.org/catalog/index.php?
storecategory_id=108&storesubcategory_id=276

Please let me know what you think soon.
Cheers,Ian.

FREE Fair Trade Coffee Friday Oct1 am

Students for Labor Justice has been working with Green Mountain Coffee and Sodexho on the MIT campus. We are please to announce that all Green Mountain outlets on Campus have switched to selling only fair trade certified coffee.
To celebrate and kick off Fair Trade month Green Mountain will have their BuzzMobile outside the student center tomorrow morning, and will be serving Fair Trade coffee for free all morning.

The point of the event is to announce to the MIT community that all MIT outlets that are supplied by Green Mountain coffee have switched to offering 100% Fair Trade coffee. That means that if you buy coffee from the following outlets you are supporting a minimum wage for coffee farmers and adding incrementally to social reform of the coffee industry.

The following outlets on campus are now 100% fair trade:

Lobdell Dining - 2nd floor of Student Center
Alpine Bagels - Ground floor of Student Center
Building 4 Cafe - bldg. 4
Biocafe - in bldg. 17
Faculty dining - Stata Center
R&D Pump - Stata Center
Broad Institute

If you ever have need to order Catering, we recommend:
Tech Catering and Alpine Bagels Catering for supplying 100% fair trade coffee.

If you normally buy coffee elsewhere, please choose the fair trade option.

Meeting Wed Sept 29 7pm Rm 7-303 DUSP Common room

Meeting Tues Sept 14 6pm Stella room 7-338

USFT (US Fair Trade) NE region conference call Thurs Sept16 9pm

***USFT Northeast Regional Conference Call - Thurs, Sept 16, 9pm EST***

For those interested in working with Fair Trade this semester, a
Northeast regional conference call has been scheduled for this
Thursday, Sept. 16th, at 9pm EST, in order to share and discuss ways to
support each other's efforts. Several Universites in the N.E. will be
on the call. If you would like to join the MIT call in group please
contact ian: ianf (at) mit.edu

BBC NEWS: Coffee Pact Aims to Help Growers

Last Updated: Friday, 10 September, 2004, 15:48 GMT 16:48 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3645486.stm

Conference: "Promoting Clean Jobs and Neighborhood Change: Building Economic and Environmental Justice"

There's a really unique conference coming up next weekend, Saturday, Sept 18th. "Promoting Clean Jobs and Neighborhood Change: Building Economic and Environmental Justice" will take place at Holy Cross College in Worcester.
There is free transportation from Boston and the conference is free, too! This conference will be an unusual and exciting blend of environmental justice, community redevelopment, and clean technology. Everyone is welcome to attend!

The registration deadling is coming up, so don't waste anytime! You can send in a registration form, or e-mail Sue Lanza at susan.lanza (at) state.ma.us. She can also be reached at (617) 626-1068.

Hope to see you there!
Libby Sommer

Chinese Workers abuses on NPR Wed 9:30pm

On National Public Radio's 'The Connection'
A show highlighting the lack of worker rights protection in China despite a legal framework that is supposed to be in place. Tune in now or if you missed the show you can check it out at http://www.npr.org/

Meeting Thurs 9th 6pm Student Center

Dear all,
Welcome back! Greetings from Students for Labor Justice! Hope all of
you had a great summer.

After last year's very successful Fair Trade Coffee Campaign that
involved students and faculty members all over MIT, we are ready
to restart our activities this year.

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE and BE ENGAGED IN THE MIT COMMUNITY?

Come and join us for the Student for Labor Justice meeting tomorrow
thursday at 6 p.m. in front of La Verde's in the Student Center (we
will then move to the second floor couches, in case you get there
late). The purpose of the meeting is to present Students for Labor
Justice to new members and discuss all together the activities we want
to develop this semester.

We want all of you to participate and have fun with us!

Please feel free to invite whoever you think might be interested.

See you tomorrow
Students for Labor Justice

Fair Trade Poster Sept 04

Fair Trade Poster Sept 04
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Here's a look at the latest Fair Trade Poster. Currently in Lobby 7 for the 1st week of the semester to highlight the fact that MIT campus outlets are switching over to Fair Trade Coffee.

PEACE CONCERT @ MIT - SAT SEPT 11

WORLD PEACE CONCERT
SATURDAY, SEPT 11
MIT KRESGE AUDITORIUM
IN TWO PARTS - COME TO ONE OR BOTH $10/$5 REQUESTED DONATION - NO ONE TURNED AWAY

PART 1 - 7PM-8:30PM REFLECTION/MEDITATION
PART 2 - 9PM-11PM ENERGY/COMMITMENT

NO TO ENDLESS WAR IN OUR NAME, NO MORE VICTIMS ANYWHERE

Organized by: United for Justice with Peace and the MIT Social Justice Cooperative
Sponsored by: MIT Student Life Program, MIT School of the Humanities, MIT Program in Women's Studies, MIT Council for the Arts, MIT Arab Student Organization, MIT Theater Department, MIT Greens, more pending
More info: http://web.mit.edu/justice

Thesis Presentation: How does the WTO handle international disputes

Jan Martinez will be defending her doctoral dissertation:
Designing International Dispute Settlement Systems: An Analysis of the World Trade Organization

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004 Kaufman Room, 9-151 4-6 p.m.

Dissertation committee: Professor Lawrence Susskind, Chair, Professor Kenneth Oye and Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler.

SLJ at the MIT International Development Forum - Sept 24

Save the date: Friday September 24th - 1-3pm in MIT Lobby 13

Students for Labor Justice will be among several student groups
highlighting and encouraging student involvement in International
Development issues.
For more information see web.mit.edu/idf

Contact Us and Get Involved

If you are a student at MIT and interested in joining SLJ or finding
out more about Fair Trade coffee please send an email to:
labor-info (at) mit.edu
for Ian or Tam or Dhru
Also please look for Fair Trade coffee anytime you are after a caffeine
fix, and ask for it if it isn't clearly offered.

FairTrade Poster

FairTrade Poster
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Posters like this went up all over the MIT campus during a sustained MIT FAIR TRADE WEEK in the Spring semester. This high profile poster campaign created a buzz on campus that helped get Fair Trade coffee on the agenda of the catering outlets and an eventual agreement to move to all Fair trade coffee on MIT's campus.

Earth day - 05

Earth day - 05
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Elizabeth Bast
Now graduated and working at Friends of the Earth in DC.

Earth day - 80

Earth day - 80
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

A proud Dimitrios - And this was before the Greeks won the European Championships soccer and Athens hosted the Olympics...

Earth day - 54

Earth day - 54
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Lara
Hosted a Fair Trade dorm event in April complete with Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate tastings, and an inpromptu presentation by Dhru and Jean.

Earth day - 20

Earth day - 20
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Vale!
Adding a little European flair to the SLJ crew. How can you have a serious coffee campaign without the Italians?

Earth day - 56

Earth day - 56
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Sarah Connolly master poster-maker for the Fair Trade coffee campaign of Spring 04. Graduated and now works as an organizer for Rainforest Action Network (RAN). She can tell you a thing or two about the oil industry...

Earth day - 03

Earth day - 03
Originally uploaded by Students for Labor Justice.

Jean Walsh sports the Fair Trade logo at MIT's earth day 04. Jean graduated in the summer and now works for Transfair - The US Fair Trade coffee certifier based in the bay area

Welcome to the SLJ Blog

Hi all,
This is perhaps the next development of the Students for Labor Justice webspace to allow for faster posting and access to SLJ news and events.
I also thought that it was a way to keep ex-SLJers somewhat connected to what is going on.

Let me know if you think this is a good idea and if it's a sustainable addition to our MIT webpage.

Cheers,

Ian.