Tomorrow, March 1st marks the beginning of Banana Month at Equal Exchange!
All month the blog will be full of videos, reports, and photos from our various trips visiting our banana partners in Peru. Everyone here is excited to share these beautiful...
Yesterday you read how Jessie Myszka represented Equal Exchange on a visit with other co-op leaders to the White House to discuss the role of co-operatives in our economy and how our government can better support them.
Today, we bring you on another...
The following post was written by Jessie Myszka, Director of Support Operations, after her meeting at the White House on May 4th
Jessie Myszka of Equal Exchange and Melissa Hoover, Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives,...
From our friends at Fair World Project:
Action Alert: Tell Starbucks and Green Mountain to Support Small Fair Trade Farmers!
Fair Trade USA (formerly TransFair USA) and its new initiative, Fair Trade For All, aims to expand fair trade...
By Hilary Johnson, Equal Exchange Minnesota Office Manager
Before I came to Equal Exchange, I spent most of my working life in the produce departments of consumer cooperatives. I hefted 50-pound cases of potatoes and cabbages, cleaned delicate...
When TransFair/Fair Trade USA chose to disregard the wishes of Fair Trade producers, Alternative Trade Organizations, activists, and other long-time actors in the Fair Trade movement and leave the international system to create their own “...
When TransFair/Fair Trade USA chose to disregard the wishes of Fair Trade producers, Alternative Trade Organizations, activists, and other long-time actors in the Fair Trade movement and leave the international system to create their own...
In October 2011, Equal Exchange and Oke USA took a group of produce managers and buyers from food co-operatives in the midwest to northern Peru to visit some of our banana co-op partners and learn more about their lives, co-operative businesses and...
