Lawrence Fair Trade

Lawrence Fair Trade will screen the documentary The Price of Sugar at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St, on April 13, 2010. Doors open at 6:45 pm and the movie begins at 7:00 pm to be followed by a discussion.

The Price of Sugar takes place on the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, where tourists flock to pristine beaches with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which will end up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The documentary follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.

Below are the notes from 2/25/10, I hope to see you all next Wed, 5pm.

1. Grant: Hadley will compile a list of possible grants we can apply
for and their deadlines for next weeks meeting. She will also arrange
getting together with Shannon to register the ECM for the grant we
discussed applying for last semester. Hadley, please let us know if you
need any help.

2. Oread coffee - Brady has offered to try to contact someone with the Oread to look into presenting Fair Trade coffee to them

3. Pulse Fair Trade Training - Offer free training for pulse employees
on the basics of Fair Trade coffee so they can share with customers,
perhaps funding some sort of "Ask me about Fair Trade button" and
certificate or some sort for the training. I think this idea could
easily be offered to all coffee shops that carry Fair Trade and is a
great way to get people talking. This would also be a selling point we
could when asking orgs such as the Oread to carry FT blends.

4. Film screening at Liberty:
We are looking into screening "The Price of Sugar" which looks at the
sugar trade industry in Haiti. As Haiti is currently forefront in
peoples minds we decided to push and try to have the screening within
the next 4-5 weeks.
The cost for the film with screening rights is $175.
Alicia will contact Films for Action and Liberty about cost for screening (and available dates)
Meredith and Sarah will contact the library to see if we can get a free copy to prescreen
Sarah will put together a mock up of a "Where can I buy Fair Trade?"
list for next weeks meeting. We will also need to determine how to
explain and show the difference between Fair Trade certified vs direct
trade. Do we want to include the % of FT offerings (I think this would
be most relevant with the coffee shops, so that people are not under
the impression that a shop that carries one or two FT blends has all
FT)?
Sarah will put together a short presentation to request funds present a
rough draft at next weeks meeting. This will be used to request
donations from the Merc, but could also be extended to other business.
We are asking for donations to offset the cost of hosting the movie,
hold a concurrent bake sale. The funds raised will be used to host
other Fair Trade activities and possibly fund a few people traveling to
the Fair Trade Futures conference in Boston in Sept. At this point
Alicia, Brady, Sarah, and Hadley have expressed interest in going.
Please let us know if you are interested. Plane tickets will be
approximately $500 a piece and registration before 3/31 is
significantly discounted.
We will contact the following clubs to co-sponsor / advertise the event, please add any you think might be relevant!
* Latin American Studies & Solidarity Club - Alicia
* HAYLO - Sarah
* African studies - Alicia
* French club - Hadley
* UMKC Afro Caribbean - Sarah
Could someone please look through Haskell, UMKC, Washburn and KSU club list and get contact info for any others

Again, we are looking to hold the screening within a short
time-frame, so please be prepared for the next meeting. This will be a
great opportunity to reach out to the community!

5. Have a presentation or discussion with some of the coffee shops that
do direct trade vs Fair Trade certification with the group.

6. Hadley suggested we meet at coffee shops, both to offer them
business and to increase our presence around town. Any suggestions or
opinions? Would people like to meet at a coffee shop for next weeks
meeting?

Thanks, hope to see everyone on Wed, but even if you can't make the
meetings we would love your participation in any way you are able.

Fair Trade Holiday Market
 
Market offers fairly traded arts and crafts from local and international artisans that make unique holiday gifts while also  helping artisans in need.
 
What:    Lawrence’s annual Fair Trade Holiday Market
When:    11/27 and 11/28 from 8am to 7pm
             11/29 to 12/3 from 10am to 7pm
Where:    ECM (Ecumenical Christian Ministries)
              1204 Oread Ave, Lawrence, KS
Who:    The market is organized by Lawrence Fair Trade, a community group dedicated to raising awareness of global economic injustice and working to establish sustainable solutions.
 
(Lawrence, KS)— Lawrence’s annual Fair Trade Holiday Market has been a favorite place for local residents to find unique holiday gifts for loved ones that also help support disadvantaged artisans here and around the world.
 
The Fair Trade Holiday Market will feature fairly traded handcrafts, apparel, chocolate, dry goods and much more.
 
Vendors at the sale this year include Equal Exchange, A Greater Gift, Ten Thousand Villages,  Women’s Bean Project and local businesses such as Two Hands Worldshop and First Weavers. Donations can be given in a person’s name as an alternative gift to organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Heifer Project, who will be selling holiday cards.
 
The high quality crafts, textiles and clothing sold at the sale are handmade by artisans from 35 countries around the world, including underprivileged parts of the U.S.  Fair Trade is an alternative to conventional trade that takes measures to ensure products are produced in safe and healthy working conditions and that artisans maintain control of their businesses through cooperatives.   Artisan cooperatives often choose to devote a large percentage of their profits to community development projects including schools, hospitals and other important infrastructure.  Fair Trade also takes steps to establish sustainable methods of production.  This innovative triple bottom line approach respects People, Planet and Profit as opposed to conventional trade where profit alone rules but often fails to provide incentive to respect the people producing goods and the planet providing the resources.
 
This year Lawrence Fair Trade will be hosting several fun events and educational activities in conjunction with the market.
 
On Friday and Saturday November 27th and 28th from 10am to 4pm on the main level of the ECM visitors to the market will find chair massages and freshly baked chapatti and crepes which can be had for small donations to benefit Comfort the Children International.
 
Also on Friday and Saturday, November 27th and 28th from 10am to 4pm Lawrence Fair Trade will be sponsoring a Kids Corner on the main level of the ECM.   The Kids Corner will be staffed with several responsible adults who will guide kids through fun arts and crafts activities.  Parents are then free to shop at the market upstairs.
 
On Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1st and 2nd from 5:15 to 7:00 pm Lawrence Fair Trade will be hosting a screening of films about international trade and the Fair Trade movement.
 
For more information please contact Alicia Erickson, alicia@twohandsworldshop.com, 785-969-3482.

Reminders, Please read!!:
 
Sale volunteers desperately needed! Please help recruit!!
 
Inventories: can be received NO LATER THAN SAT 11/22, please send reminders to vendors ASAP! This is a very big deal, any inventories not entered will have to use the X category, and will be relying on volunteers to remember to enter the correct (or any) price for the products.
 
Collect Art supplies (updated list of needed items coming from Liz), old shopping bags, wrapping such as newsprint
 
Table set up: is Sunday 11/22 evening at 9pm. Robert will work with Autumn to coordinate picking up extra tables, and call Brady if an extra hand is needed. Please be at ECM by 9pm to move other tables upstairs. We will want to be sure to mark the donated tables with masking tape so that the correct ones are returned if they are not already marked. Also, we will put signs on tables for vendors set-up that evening.
 
Sale Setup:Monday 11/23 5pm-7pm & Tuesday 11/24 3-6 pm. Volunteers needed! Please come help setup for as much as you can. Also, please make sure your vendors that will be setting up their own products have these times (they are corrected from original email sent in October) if they cannot make these times please let me know and we can work something out. Everything must be set up by Tuesday evening.
 
Volunteer Training:Monday 11/23 7pmTuesday 11/24 6pmPlease be sure to attend one
 
Volunteer email: An email reminder with training times needs to be sent to all volunteers that have signed up, can someone please copy down emails and prepare this to send out? I will create a spreadsheet of the times Sunday evening to send out later so they will also have their times
 
Posters:We divided up putting up flyers, please get these flyers up asap (see attached for assignments and needed areas)! Also, we still need some volunteers for some buildings on campus, please help!
 
Breakdown volunteers: Help needed! Please let me know if you can come Thurs 12/3 to help pack up items, and take tables back downstairs. We need lost of help for this. Autumn and Robert will coordinate returning borrowed tables. Also, please see if your local vendors are able to come that evening. Brady, Alicia, Robert can be there, Liz can be there at 8
 
Media list:Churches – Autumn will let us know if she needs help distributing. Brady will send additional emails. Lawrence.com – B will add additional activities
 
Film nights – If I get the media release prepared, can someone send to all the local outlets this week? Volunteers to help run film nights? Hosts are Tuesday – Hadley and Wed-Alicia
 
Kids Corner:Meeting Monday evening at 5pm, please let Liz or myself know if you would like to volunteers
 
Veggie lunch volunteer help needed to help Hadley make cookies for veggie lunch (cookies in ECM admin office, to be split with tea time) please stay after the meeting 11/18 to help bake
 
Tea Time – Meredith – do we need volunteers to stand at Tea time, or are you able to? Also, we'll need to set up a handful of products, I can get you a box, let me know asap.
 
Tabling – Volunteers needed! Monday 11/30 10am-4pm
 
Chalking – 11/30 volunteers needed! What time can people help?
 
Notes sent to previous sale shoppers – Alicia & Brady will get a list to Hadley, can people please volunteer to help stuff these before or after the meeting 11/18? Also, how where these mailed last year?
 
Potluck Dinner – Tentative date 12/11 (Friday) please let us know asap if this doesn't work for everyone. This will be a great chance for us to relax together! Brady and Alicia will host at our house if we want :-)
 
Brady & Alicia will be gone for the next meeting, so we'll see you Sunday 11/22 at 9pm on Monday 11/23 at 5pm for set up.
 
No meeting Wed before Thanksgiving 11/25.

Attended: Alicia, Hadley, Autumn

Check up on sale.
·         Serrv order is in, we need to check and see what percentage they let you keep
·         Hadley—remind Coalition of Immokalee workers that we need an inventory early
·         Alicia—e-mail Autumn and Hadleydirections for inventorying
·         EVERYONE-inventories should be e-mailed to Brady in electronic format
·         Autumn will look into tables
·         Volunteer letter has been e-mailed to the listserve, feel free to email to groups, family, friends, etc.
MEDIA STUFF
·         Make sure you look at the list Alicia sent out with updated media contact info and please sign up and start contacting a couple by the upcoming meeting  on 11/11
·         Hadley—update Lawrence.com with individual events (movies, etc.)
·         Alicia—do separate press release for films
·         Churches—I can’t remember exactly, but I think we are just sending out the press release? Also, we’re going to check and ask if we can still be written up in their December newsletters and November bulletins.
·         Welcome to Lawrence is set to go—thanks Autumn!
·         Facebook event is made—look for it and become and administrator, then invite your friends!!
·         Kids Corner Volunteers—we still need to be thinking about this..
We talked about having a separate meeting for the Kids Corner, with a couple of people taking charge  of it, and recruiting volunteers they know well and trust with kids. Social Awareness was mentioned as a possible resource for volunteers. Topics for separate meeting: volunteer sign-ups, nametags for kids, projects to do…
·         Veggie lunch Nov. 199h—brownies to advertise will be made Nov. 18th in ECM kitchen. Need one or two other people to help Hadley. We will start cooking at 6:30, and it shouldn’t take long.
·         Tea time—set up for Thurs. 19th @3 at Union
--Still waiting to hear about TEA—is BayLeaf, which is Tea Time’s regular provider, fair trade, and if not, maybe we will get some from Merc or Casbah (DONATED?)
--Also still waiting to hear about whether or not we can donate brownie or cookie mixes, and if so, if we also have to pay for eggs, butter, etc.
·         Tabling—Nov. 30th 10-2 on Monday. Be thinking about when you could table.
·         Chalking—Nov 30th. Be thinking about when you could help that morning.
·         Art Supplies—keep bringing them! We have some now, and we are keeping them in Thad’s office for now. SUGGESTIONS: masking tape, glue, magazines
·         Set-up: Need FT Team to do set-up times, especially table set-up Sunday, Nov. 22nd at 9 p.m. Other set-ups are 2 hours before volunteer trainings.
·         We might get together sometime the weekend after the 11/11 meeting to write postcards advertising the sale to people who came in years past whose addresses we have.
·         Playing with the idea of selling shirts, especially at volunteer trainings. We need to check with Thad about TAXES and how they would work with this.
·         Sho-sho baskets are in and very charming!
·         We’ll divide up posters, flyers, and handbills next week.
 
REVERSE TRICK-OR-TREATING
This was a success, with lots of kids participating!! Thank you to everyone who helped out and talked to the kids about Fair Trade. Yay!!
 
See you all this week, Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 5 p.m. Thad’s office.
 

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Reverse Trick or Treat

• Meredith has sent out the media release
• 3:30 at Public Library meeting rooms or parking lot to meet Roger Hill and talk about Fair Trade
• Fair Trade Mingle from 5 - 6 at the library

Holiday Sale

• Media
  • Robert has not yet sent out the media release, Thad thinks more needs to be added to it, Brady will add more this weekend and send to Robert early next week
  • The entire sale is now up on Lawrence.com
  • Autumn has a conenction with a the Lawrence Welcome where she will put our flyers in Lawrence Welcome bags
• Tables
  • Autumn knows a girl that has access to tables, she will ask her about getting 8 or so of those tables.
• Tabling
  • Meredith is submitting a request for Monday Nov. 30th from 10 -2 to table at Wescoe
• Contacting Vendors
  • Everyone is contacted except KU Unicef and Tom Wheat
  • Hadley is going to ask her coffee shop if they want to participate in place of Tom Wheat.
• Heiffer Project - try to keep a record of how many are being sold through this org.
• Autumn is meeting with Thad tonight about contacting churches

Halloween

• Chocolate is in
• Flyers are printed to handout with the chocolate
• Meredith has the media release done and is sending it out soon

Meredith has Swag

• Buttons, stickers, bags, literature, etc.

Holiday Sale

• Contacting vendors
  • Circles of Grace - Contacted Hadley back taken care of
  • Heifer project - Meredith taken care of
  • Oxfam - Meredith taken care of
  • Ten Thousand Villages - Hadley will contact
  • Silver Condor Jewelry (Fernando) - Hadley taken care of
  • First Weavers - Hadley taken care of
  • Tom Wheat - Brady will contact
  • Habitat for Humanity - Liz will contact
  • Esperanza - Hadley taken care of
  • Jubilee Traders - Hadley taken care of
  • Partners for Just Trade - Hadley taken care of
  • Awava - Alicia taken care of
  • El Papaturro - Meredith will contact
  • Fair Industry - Hadley taken care of
  • Blossom Trail Bee Ranch - Meredith contacted no response
  • Zapatista coffee - Hadley will talk to Ashley
  • Education and More - Meredith will contact
  • Healing Moon Soaps - Liz taken care of
  • KU Unicef - Liz will talk to her friend
  • Jospeh - Autumn taken care of
  • ShoSho - Autumn taken care of
  • Chair Massages - Autumn taken care of
• Sales tax confusion
  • Ten Thousand Villages was confused about sales taxes, Alicia sent out a clarifying email - refer to this if you have any questions or have the vendor email Alicia directly (alicia@twohandsworldshop.com). This clarification is also available on the website.
  • Email inventory Excel files to brady (bradyswenson@gmail.com)
• Churches
  • Meredith - Community Christian Church and the person she met on a plane
  • Thad - The six sponsoring churches - Autumn can contact Thad for this list
  • Liz will ask Autumn about a list of churches to contact
• Tables
  • We need minimum 3 preferably 5 long rectangular tables
  • Brady will ask Plymouth Congregational about tables
• Posters
  • Order 25 nice 11 x 17 posters to put up around town and on campus
  • 8.5x11 and handbill size flyers to post as well, we'll divide up postering next week.
• Everyone in the group should try to contact their friends and family, sending email with poster attached so people can put up at work. And be sure to ask for volunteers to work at the sale.
• Brady will create a Facebook event page
  • Send it to Sarah Trobridge Alford to add to ECMs facebook
• Movies
  • Alicia will emcee the Wednesday evening Calcutta Hilton movie
  • Hadley will emcee the Tuesday evening films
  • Setup donation jar for the FT group at the films
  • Alicia will bring FT coffee, brownie mix and iced tea to have out for the films
• Kid Korner
  • Need volunteers, keep it to those we know personally, Liz, Molly
• Veggie Lunch Brownies and Promotion
  • Hadley will go to veggie lunch on Thurs 11/19 (making brownies Wednesday, November 18th after meeting, anyone can stay to help) to have brownies for donations and advertise the holiday sale. Have handbills.
• Tea time at the Union
  • Meredith will have some products at the union tea time and talk about fair trade - Thursday, November 19th - Meredith will contact to set up.
• Chalking
  • Chalk on Monday, November 30th when students are back from Fall Break (group dinner after!?)
• Wescoe Tabling
  • Meredith will setup a time on Monday, November 30th and Tuesday the 31st to table at Wescoe

T-Shirts

• Meredith has ordered the iron-ons, we will get the to Autumn tonight
• We have a contact for blank fair trade tshirts if we want some to sell at the sale

Hello and thank you for participating in the 2009 Fair Trade Holiday Market at the ECM.

Our apologies if there has been any confusion regarding sales tax charges. We will attempt to clarify our procedures, please let me know if you still have questions.
 
For all vendors required to pay sales tax, we are asking that you mark-up your items by 17.85%, 10% will be kept to help facilitate the sale, the 7.85% will be returned to you with your total sales. The reason each price tag needs the mark up is that prices charged at the register are the exact price shown on the price tag. Once you receive your total sales plus the 7.85% back, you may submit the 7.85% along with your regular sales tax payment. More information about sales tax can be found here: http://www.ksrevenue.org/bustaxtypessales.htm.
 
We are unable to add sales tax at the register, as included in our great variety are some organizations that the sales tax does not apply to (such as accepting donations). Unfortunately our limited system does not allow us to create different tax rules for different vendors.
 
Also, just as a friendly reminder, please ensure your price tags also have your unique code which corresponds with your inventory list. If possible, please include the two letter prefix which identifies your business (for example, Two Hands = TH) on the price tag before the product code.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions, or if there is anything else I can help with.
 
Thank you so much for your participation!
Alicia Erickson
alerixon (at) gmail.com
Lawrence Fair Trade Group

Chocolate / Halloween

• Give all $1,000 to Social Awareness, and both them and Roger Hill YV will divide them up and do door to door.
• Handbill flyers to go with chocolate—info about group (poster we already have shrunk) on front and general info on back. We’ll have them here next week.
• Hadley will e-mail Meredith the list of media contacts by Thursday. Meredith and Autumn—coordinate to include info about Social Awareness Club.

Holiday Sale

• Hand made Posters—one at ECM, one at Oxfam cubicle, one at Freestate, Union across from Art Gallery
• Autumn—will email flyers to Pro print and have them print it nicely for 20/60 cents each. Still awaiting estimates for how many.
• Everyone—ask family about folding tables/tablecloths for the sale
•                 --start collecting general art supplies
• Volunteer sign up is on the wall, with instructions—tell all your friends!!
• Send out an email to previous volunteers (Hadley) –send out email draft
• Anyone else, forward to groups or people who may be interested.
• Taxes and percent to ECM: vendors should add 17% total to their original price.
• If you haven’t yet, contact your vendors! Let Alicia know if they have questions.
• Autumn—waiting to hear from Joseph (just need i.d. and name for Western Union money transfer (you can use a credit card)), Sho sho baskets will be here on time.
• T-shirts—Alicia will forward info to Autumn about Fair Trade t’s from Mexico
• Films—three films from Meredith and Alicia Tuesday, long feature on Wed.
• Downstairs is reserved Friday and Sat. 10-4. Volunteer from within the group needed, plus maybe a few of their friends.
• Media outreach meeting is tomorrow night at 7:30 at Autumn’s house, 950 Monterey Way Apt. J-4
• We’ll talk about grant stuff at media meeting. Grant is due Oct. 31st, and we’ll try to come up with some more concrete plans to talk about. Also, mention things we have discussed already.
• Maybe do brownies for the veggie lunch the weeks leading up to the sale. Nov. 19th. Can some people stay after the meeting November 18th?
• Also Tea Time—be thinking!

Reverse Trick or Treat

• 1,000 ordered, arriving in approximately 2 weeks
• Volunteer counts? Free State & Roger Hill

Chocolate orders for Halloween - Due in 10/14/09 at meeting
Holiday Sale:

• Call for tables - please ask your friends & families if we can borrow tables (long ones the best) for 11/21-12/4/09
• Call for Art Supplies - Please start collecting these items, you can bring them to the meetings so we can get a feel for what we have
• magazines, toliet paper rolls, glue, crayons, markers, colored paper, face paints, coloring book pages, water bottles, tape, foil, glitter, ribbon / string etc.
• Volunteer sign & email (Hadley will put together an email) out next week
• Vendor letter out - Hadley will send an email of vendors still needing a contact person
• Film nights 5:30 Tues 12/1 - Short FT films - Hadley will research Meredith has FT, Beads for life, Wed 12/2 Calcutta Hilton
• Media Outreach - Alicia, Hadley and Robert will meet Thurs 10/15
• Poster making - Wed 10/14 at 4 and 6 Bring your supplies
• Fair Trade flyers & handbills - Meredith will check with Transfair
• Autumn's vendors - checking on payment and timeframe

Grant:
Hadley & Autumn will look over