Reverse Trick-Or-Treating, Live in Berkeley

 

More blurbs from the editor…

Last Halloween I followed UC Berkeley college students Moravia DeLao and her friend Sandy for Reverse Trick-Or-Treating, a project of the international fair-trade company Global Exchange – an organization spotlighted in October’s issue, “Field Notes.” Link to our spotlight: https://synchchaos.com/?p=912

During this worldwide event, people who choose to participate can order fair-trade chocolate from Global Exchange’s website.  

Then, for Reverse Trick-Or-Treating, people dress in costume, go house to house, and give out the chocolate, along with information about fair trade practices. (In the United States, children typically ask for candies at each house.) Moravia was Waldo from the children’s book Where’s Waldo, and I dressed as Theano, wife of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras.

Berkeley gave birth to many social-justice, international-awareness, and ecological movements over the years, and most homes high up in the hills already knew of and bought fair trade products when possible. Still, most accepted our chocolates, and even gave us candy anyway! (Most trick-or-treaters are very young, elementary school age or younger.)

Global Exchange remains in business with their justice-oriented corporate philosophy, and, although orders and revenue have declined, withstood the past year and a half of global recession.

Their chocolate and other products are all purchased from suppliers which they know strive to pay the farm families who grew the plants a wage on which they can live. Also, cacao, tea, and coffee growers have joined together in Global Exchange-facilitated cooperatives to pool capital for longer-term investments – medical clinics, schools, ecologically workable technologies to increase crop yield.

Global Exchange’s website with more information here: http:www.globalexchange.com

 

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