Don’t miss the World Fair Trade Day celebrations in Cleveland this Saturday, May 12!!

    Rhythm Culture Shakes Up Fair Trade at the World Fair
    Trade Day Festival on Saturday, May 12, 11am-3pm, at
    Tri-C Metro (Campus Center).  Move to the music of
    multicultural performers.  Learn how fair trade is a
    just, viable alternative to corporate globalization.
    Kids can participate in a collective art project, test
    their geography skills and win prizes.  Phoenix Coffee
    will serve up gourmet fair trade coffee while Two Peas
    in a Pod slices up fair trade chocolate desserts.
    Local fair trade vendors INTO, R evive, Fair Trade
    Connection and others will sell clothing, jewelry, and
    hand-crafted gift items made by family businesses and
    small cooperatives throughout the  Global South.
    Later, local high school kids model fair trade
    fashions from 4 to 8pm on a runway they’ve set up at
    the Independence Civic Center , 6363 Selig Dr .  See
    more at www.irtfcleveland.org [1] or call 216.961.0003.

    Festival: 11am-3pm
    World Fair Trade Day Festival
    Tri-C Metro Campus
    Campus Center 10 (off courtyard)
    2900 Community College Ave (between Woodland and
    Central Ave )

    (see directions below)

    11am – 3pm

    The festival will provide family-friendly activities
    throughout the day.

    ·        Learn about the on-going need for fair trade
    practices.
    ·        Participate in a global awareness art
    project.
    ·        Move to the music of multicultural
    performers.
    ·        Buy fairly traded products.
    ·        Sample fair trade coffee and chocolate.

    Fair trade is an alternative to corporate-led
    globalization and free-trade agreements.

    Fair trade means
    -safe and healthy working conditions
    -advanced credit,
    -long-term partnerships
    -sustainable development
    -living wages.

    Kids Need Fair Trade!!

    Children in poor countries are required to work
    because the wages earned by their parents do not
    support the entire family.   Fair trade businesses
    offer family wages for parents, which afford children
    more education, better health care and nutrition.

    Meet local vendors, including
    Esperanza Threads
    Fair Trade Connection
    Heartbeats
    Inter Religious Task Force
    INTO
    Revive
    Ten Thousand Villages.

    Fashion Show: 4-8pm

    The fashion show, presented by students from area
    Catholic high schools, runs from 4-8pm at the
    Independence Civic Center , 6363 Selig Dr. in
    Independence .  High school students will model fair
    trade fashions.

    Festival co-sponsored by: Cleveland Catholic
    Diocese-Council on Global Solidarity, Congregation of
    St. Joseph, Esperanza Threads, Evangelical Lutheran
    Church in America-NE Ohio Synod, Fair Trade
    Connection, Heartbeats,  INTO: Illuminating Nations
    through Opportunity, I R TF: Inter R eligious Task
    Force on Central America,  Jobs with Justice, Phoenix
    Coffee, Planet Aid, R evive, Ten Thousand Villages,
    Tri-C Global Issues R esource Center, Ursuline Sisters
    of Cleveland, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice

    Directions to Tri-C Metro Campus:

    2900 Community College Ave, Cleveland 44115

    Note: Community College Ave is also known as Quincy .
    Community College Ave is 3 streets south of Carnegie
    Ave.  (Carnegie, then Cedar, then Central then
    Community College Ave, then Woodland, then I-77, then
    Orange Ave, then Broadway.  The college is bordered by
    E. 30th on the east; the next cross street to the west
    is E. 22nd St .   Woodland and I-77 run along the
    south end of the campus.)

    From the near west:  Carnegie to E. 22nd.  R ight onto
    E. 22nd.  Left onto Community College Ave. Parking:
    turn right into parking deck from Community College
    Ave (closer to E 30th end of campus) or park in
    metered spots along E. 30th.

    From farther west: I-90 east to innerbelt.  Exit E.
    22nd St. R ight onto E. 22nd. Left onto Community
    College Ave. Parking:  turn right into parking deck
    from Community College Ave (closer to E 30th end of
    campus) or park in metered spots along E. 30th.

    From the northeast: I-90 West to innerbelt.  Exit
    Prospect Ave. Left onto Prospect.  R ight onto E. 30th
    St .  Parking:  meters along E. 30th or turn right
    onto Community College Ave and immediate left into
    parking deck.

    From the the east (e.g., Cleveland Heights , Shaker
    Heights ).  Take Carnegie Ave to E. 30th St .  Left
    onto E. 30th St .  Parking:  meters along E. 30th or
    turn right onto Community College Ave and immediate
    left into parking deck.

    From  I-77 south: I-77 north. Take Woodland Ave exit
    toward E. 30th St .  Slight left on Woodland . R ight
    onto E. 30th.   Parking:  meters along E. 30th or turn
    left onto Community College Ave and immediate left
    into parking deck.

    From I-71 south: I-71 north. Continue to I-90
    innerbelt.  Exit E. 22nd St. R ight onto E. 22nd. Left
    onto Community College Ave. Parking:  turn right into
    parking deck from Community College Ave (closer to E
    30th end of campus) or park in metered spots along E.
    30th.

    World Fair Trade Festival
    Saturday, May 12, 2007
    11am-3pm
    Tri-C Metro Campus
    Campus Center 10, off the courtyard.

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