Equal Exchange Blog ... "Lessons in Alternative Trade"

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Lessons in Alternative Trade

As consumers, as people, we are pretty disconnected from most of our products. We may believe a label brings us closer to the real story, but at the end of the day, labels don’t tell stories, people do.

Last week, on an Action Forum webinar with Pushpika Freitas of Marketplace: Handwork of India, I was pretty floored ...

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