Making Dublin a Fairtrade City
RedMum | February 22, 2007Plans are afoot to make Dublin a fairtrade city. A motion proposed by Councillor Eric Byrne seeks to make Dublin a fairtrade city. The campaign has been stepped up a notch with lots of flags being hoisted around the city promoting the campaign. You can’t miss them on O’Connell Street and just in case you have, here’s one I prepared earlier.
What can you do? Look for the many fairtrade products that are available all over the city, make sure your morning coffee is a fairtrade coffee, you can do lots. Find out more here.
Pardon the reflections, it was taken on a bus.
ah, i can hear it now, the tart with the cart’s theme song will soon be,
“in dublin’s fairtrade city,
where girls ar so pretty….”
Good stuff. I noticed these banners myself early last week in O’Connell street. Hopefully the campaign will be a boost to educating people about the issues surrounding Fair Trade, even beyond coffee and tea.
Something that needs to be addressed, however, is finding a way to keep large corporations truly and consistently accountable for their treatment of workers and farmers in developig countries. At the moment, the “Fair Trade” label is turning out to be a great opportunity for a selling point – aside from whether or not they actually do business in a just and ethical way. There’s a risk that some companies can start a “Fair Trade” line of products but continue exploiting deveoping countries with their other product lines and in other ways.
Good for Mr. Byrne to use his position as a Councillor to raise the issue!
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