Fuerza Unida was founded in 1990, following an overnight shutdown of the Levi Strauss jeans factory in San Antonio leaving hundreds of workers without jobs and unable to meet the daily needs of food and housing. The mostly immigrant women working at the three Levi...
HOSTED by our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, the annual Women and Fair Trade Festival is here for One Day Only, Saturday December 3, 2022 from 10 AM to 6 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church on 4700 Grover Ave, Austin, TX 78756. The Women and Fair...
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting the Women and Fair Trade Festival on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 10 am till 6 pm. This event offers Austin area shoppers an opportunity to support women’s cooperatives from around the world by purchasing beautiful,...
Why Buy Fair Trade? Fair Trade is a global movement that puts people and planet first by ensuring fair practices and living wages for workers, producers and sellers of all consumer goods. For women in the global economy, fair trade assures that the...
The Dignity and Justice Maquiladora: A Dream on Hold **Dr. Judith Rosenberg, January 2012 One July morning in 2001, I was snooping around the offices of the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras/os in Piedras Negras. I was teaching English to the workers’ children and waiting...
