FAIR TRADE--CHOCOLATE AND FABRICS and Universal Rights for Women

see: http://www.globalexchangestore.org/harvestofhope.html

These chocolates are a bit expensive for my budget, but I am considering not buying any chocolate from the store, and buying from them,

and stocking up. Also, there is Fair Trade Fabrics, I am looking into those as well,

I did a search for Fair Trade suppliers in my area, there was not one, not a one. Not for chocolate and fabrics,

I am wondering, how small businesses [put out thanks to CPSIA] can work in alliance with the Fair Trade Coops, doing exchange, international,

especially among women. So I will be doing some study on this, with the economy as it is, this will not be an easy task,

no jobs, no money, no means to purchase Fair Trade Goods. This is one if not the most important aspect of this stupid law,

in that, it Will have devastating effects on those Fair Trade-Women Coops businesses. They are barely making it as it is in many of these countries, it takes a lot of coop-group effort, competition with mass production is fierce, mass production that Does not only rely on slavery, low status/abuse of women, they actually prefer these conditions. Easier to exploit...

excerpt:
Behind Chocolate’s Bars

March 10, 2008 by globalgirlnetwork

By Idelette McVicker


chocolate.jpgNearly 200 years ago, about 300,000 people in Great Britain refused to eat sugar in protest against the use of slave labour in the production of sugar. Their combined protest had a powerful effect: retailers quickly sourced alternative suppliers and declared their sugar to be slave free. Read the Rest Here:
http://globalgirlnetwork.com/2008/03/10/behind-chocolate%E2%80%99s-bars/

also, I wanted to add this as well:

Universal Rights of Women

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/03/universal-doctrine-of-womens-rights.html

more on this later