Traidcraft cartoon: Small changes
A drawing for Fairtrade Fortnight
Fairtrade communion wine
Fairtrade Fortnight is nearly upon us – it is from the 25th of February to the 9th of March 2008. I heard on the grapevine (I think my wife told me) that Fairtrade communion wine is now available. Jo mentioned it on the Eco Congregation blog, and I found a press release on the Exeter…
Fairtrade man
Fairtrade fortnight starts next week. One man (we’ll call him Ben) is going to be Fairtrade man for the fortnight by only eating Fairtrade food and only wearing fairtrade bananas on his head. He has a Myspace page and accompanying blog. It seems to me that Fairtrade rice is the product that will make this…
Pants to Poverty
Pants to Poverty is a campaign to sell Fair Trade pants. Pants to Poverty has been set up by last year’s students’ group of Make Poverty History and exists to help the white band to evolve and make trade work for everyone and the environment; especially those who need it most: the workers of the…
Giving up supermarkets for Lent
Fishsoup, whose blog a heartbreaking work of staggering tiredness is one of our Wiblogs, has given up supermarket shopping for Lent. Last night I had sardines on dry bread with manky beansprouts, this can’t go on. Talking of supermarkets, there was a programme last week about the way that they are making a profit from…
Supermarkets
A challenge from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the Guardian: For me, then, the true tipping point will come when significant numbers of consumers begin to say to the supermarkets: enough of your bullying tactics to farmers and producers, your misleading labelling and spurious nutritional information, enough of the systematic suffering of livestock in intensive systems, driven…
Another Fairtrade cartoon
Another Fairtrade cartoon – once again no charge for using this if it is for a display promoting Fairtrade products or Fairtrade Fortnight. You can grab a high resolution version here. See also my other, not so funny Fairtrade cartoon. Feel free to post either of these Fairtrade cartoons on your blog if you are…
Fairtrade cartoon
With Fairtrade Fortnight about to start (6-19th of March) I have published this Fairtrade cartoon on the main site. It originally appeared in the ‘Make Poverty History’ book I illustrated last year. If you’re doing a display or article promoting Fairtrade and would like to use it then please go ahead. For all other uses…