- Help Oxfam reform the U.S. Farm Bill by asking your Senators to oppose trade distorting subsidies.
- A taste of our tour of Theo Chocolates, the first roaster of Fair Trade Certified cocoa beans and the only roaster of organic cocoa beans in the United States.
What We've Been Up To
Mining and Indigenous Rights: A Film and Conversation with the Western Shoshone
- Date: Wednesday, October 10th
- Times: 12-1 in Student Center 210 and 5-6:30 in Bannan 404
- On Wednesday October 10th, members of the Western Shoshone Nation, including famed activist Carrie Dann, visited the Seattle University Campus. As seen in the recent film, “Our Land, Our Life,” the Western Shoshone have struggled through a long history of mistreatment and injustice at the hands of the US Government. More atmospheric nuclear tests have been conducted on Shoshone land than on any other site in the world, and today strip-mining operations destroy their ancestral sites without proper regulation or consent. In 2005, the Western Shoshone won a court case in the United Nations that urged the United States to cease any action on Shoshone Land and enter into dialogue with tribal leaders. The United States has yet to respond.
3rd Annual Hunger Banquet: A Meal in Solidarity with the World
- Date: Thursday, October 18th
- Location: Casey Commons
- The Seattle University Oxfam Club hosted a hunger banquet in the Casey Commons. More than 60 people joined us for a free meal and a great conversation. Our focus for this year's banquet was the Farm Bill - a piece of US legislation that affects food and hunger not only domestically, but also in the international community. The farm bill, which is currently stalled in the Senate, determines food stamp and school lunch programs, conservation guidelines and crop subsidies for the next five years. As shown in "The Omnivore's Dilemma," the current system is very damaging and deserves careful reconsideration. For more information, please visit Oxfam America.
Theo Chocolate Factory Tour
- Date: Sunday, November 18th at 1 p.m.
- Location: Theo Chocolate Factory
- We took two vans full of Oxfamers to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle to visit the Theo Chocolate Factory. Theo is the first and only 100% fair-trade organic chocolate maker in the United States. They guided us around their factory, taught us about fair trade and chocolate in general and gave us more samples than we could eat!
Fair Trade Week
- Date: Late January, Early February, 2008
- The Fair Trade Committee will be planning a campus-wide fair trade education week in January or February, with help from the Latin American studies club and Academic Salons. Do you have any great ideas? let us know!
Fair Trade Top Chef
- To be announced
Fair Trade Week is coming up kids, take a look at the events below to find out which are perfect for you