Communications/campaigns. Also making gardens, woolen things, attempts at a better world through food systems. @ AnnaCanning on those other platforms
Portland, OR
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New report: Behind the "fair trade" & "ethically grown" claims are widespread abuses of workers, including forced labor.
Every week, seems there's another expose of the failures of certifiers. This time it's in the voices of 200+ workers thanks to my coauthor @drjamesdaria
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ALT A photo of a man wearing a camo face covering and red hoodie and cap stares into the camera. Overlayed on the photo is a quote from the report being discussed in the thread: "From the time I started at Rancho Nuevo five years ago, I do not know a benefit for the worker having EFI certification. This is what I would like to know. In what ways can the EFI group help us? In what ways does it benefit us?" -from a farmworker on an Fair Trade USA & Equitable Food Initiative certified farm
ALT A photo of a woman wearing a blue shirt and a blue handkerchief across her face. She's wearing a cap with blueberries on it so just her face is visible, staring at the viewer. She holds a plastic clamshell of berries in her hands and is reaching them out like she might be offering them to you. Overlaid on the text is a quote from the report discussed in the thread: "To me, Fair Trade means unfair trade." -from a farmworker on a Fair Trade USA & Equitable Food Initiative certified farm
The convo about Forever 21's bankruptcy has been dominated by F21's own narrative: They couldn't fast fashion fast enough to keep up with Shein & Temu
That's not the whole story
Join me down a rabbit hole of private equity, dead malls & extreme capitalism
dignityandrights.org/2025/03…
Fascinating fact in here: Private equity firms control 1/5 of US companies-their greed is behind so many of the bankrupcies, not just traditional supply/demand we learned in school
@derekseidman80 w/ a look at PE's villainy across vital sectors of society
truthout.org/articles/privat…
It's timely as I've just been looking into the role of private equity in wage theft cases with garment workers.
The short version: Private equity's got billions in hoarded assets, but where's the accountability? #PayYourWorkers
dignityandrights.org/2025/02…
Fashion brands leaving garment workers in the lurch is way too common.
But this case has an impressive lineup of ghouls from Shein to Blackrock to the company who owns all the dead malls.
Despite the *billions* of $$ between them, workers haven't been paid
wsr-network.org/not-so-lucky…
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"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income" science.org/content/article/…
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On Wednesday, November 27th, workers at all unionized New Seasons locations will engage in a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike.
To avert the strike, the company must meet the our demand for a wage and benefits proposal that materially improves the conditions for all workers.
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The G20 has removed language calling for the "transition away from fossil fuels," agreed on at COP28, from its leaders' statement in Rio.
You can call this backsliding, or you can call it murderous indifference. Really, up to you.
ft.com/content/83521417-f56e…
"If we deport people, food will be more expensive" is a bad argument vs deportation. It's going to be used as a reason to expand the guestworker program, which is appallingly exploitative as people's legal status is tied to their employer.
Great article on orgs to support now
ALT "If we deport people, food will be more expensive" is a bad argument against deportation. It's going to be used as a reason to expand the guestworker program, which is appallingly exploitative as people's legal status is tied to their employer. Great article on orgs to support in this time
"We need to recognize that we’re in a position of power, not weakness, because we hold the levers of the food system in this country."
My post-election @truthout roundtable with farmworker groups from Florida, Washington and Vermont.
truthout.org/articles/farmwo…
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As U.S. braces for Trump, it could learn a lot from the Global South about what "resistance" really means
Going beyond hashtags and doing the real work of building community is our strongest defense against authoritarianism
LATEST by me for @pirate_wire piratewireservices.com/p/as-…
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I can’t believe I have to say this in 2024 but mass deportations irreparably harm the people being hunted down, detained, and deported and their families. Focusing on how you’re gonna pay more for your groceries because there will be less farmworkers is frankly offensive af.
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In Colombia: Water is a Casualty of War
As COP16 progresses, the link between illicit economies, conflict and environmental destruction is starkly illustrated
piratewireservices.com/p/in-…
This is the 2nd "exceeding natural limits of the planet" warning I've read in the past week.
"to address mass extinction, we need to have more humility as part of just one other species in the web of life…we can’t have this casual attitude to ecocide.”
theguardian.com/environment/…
This was the other one - which I read even as there's a push to log off more of the old forests of the Pacific NW where I live.
How do we reconcile the urgency of reality with the profit-hungry status quo?
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Palestinian farmers in Israeli-occupied West Bank facing the most dangerous olive season ever. The intimidation of farmers, restriction of access to lands, severe harassment+attacks by Israeli armed settlers & occupation forces further undermine food sovereignty of Palestinians
Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers that threaten their olive harvest -UN experts warn.
Restricting olive harvests, destroying orchards & banning access to water sources is an attempt by Israel to expand its illegal settlements.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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For the 1st time in history, the World Bank has been forced by a US court to pay reparations to a community harmed by its investments - in this case, $30 million to a Honduran African palm oil company linked to death squads.
My story for @MongabayOrg
news.mongabay.com/2024/10/wo…
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• Addicted to fent? Blame a migrant not Purdue Pharma!
• Outbid on a house? Blame a migrant not AirBnB!
• In a hurricane's path? Blame a migrant not Chevron!
Migrants are not the cause of overdoses, housing crises, and climate change. You're thinking about corporations.
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NEW: Migrant & undocumented farmworkers in south Georgia are grappling with decimated homes and lost livelihoods after Hurricane Helene. Ineligible for FEMA relief, their communities have been largely forgotten.
truthout.org/articles/hit-ha…
This is why consumer choice won’t win us a fair food system.
Chiquita & Dole are able to bypass everyone else’s logistics to get their product on the shelf - & yes it goes back to their human rights abuses
🍌 🍌BREAKING BANANA NEWS🍌🍌 That banana shortage you’ve been warned about with the port strike? Turns out Chiquita and Dole have their own ships — and they’re still being unloaded. Great reporting by Giacomo Bologna. thebaltimorebanner.com/econo…
I wrote years ago about how Dole is big enough to own an entire port in Ecuador - their own private port in parallel to everyone else’s system - & what it means for the efforts to actually build an ethical food system
fairworldproject.org/many-mi…