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Worldshop Newsletter Summer 2006 Content Network of European Worldshops 1 NEWSletter: Summer 2006 Worldshop Newsletter Summer 2006 Dear Fair Traders, Content Silly Season? Cucumber time? For some the summer is a time for lazy days and silly news stories. In my village in Hol- 1. Red Card Exhibition at land we are having a serious problem with cows falling into European Parliament ditches. How about you? Has it rained fish in Denmark yet? 2. Austria‘s Fair Successes Not so with the NEWS Office. We are still digging out from our very successful campaign. When we launched the campaign 3. Worldshops Conference 06 we had no idea what a huge success it would be. How naïve 4. USA‘s first Fair Trade Town we are! With nine of our National Worldshops Associations, 5. Advocacy and Hungary plus thousands of volunteers working on the 6. Project Partners Wanted! 2006 campaign it was always a guaranteed success. One of 7. Fair Procura Publication the most interesting aspects of this campaign was the way in which it was executed on all levels: local, regional, national and European. Engaging to young people and adults. Fun and political at the same time. This was a grand example of the strength of NEWS and her partners. The NEWS Office would like to thank all the people who worked so hard to make this campaign so suc- cessful! In this edition our focus is on Austria. We get an update on the The Weltcafé, so successful in Vienna that there is soon be a new Weltcafe in Graz. Another success story features a very innovative program focused on young people approaching their peers to inform and sell fair trade goods. This program is two years old and growing! Also there is news on a joint effort between Austria and Germany for the —Come In œ Go Fair“ project. This action is not only a great way to reach a new and growing audience, young people; it is also a fine example of how working together with our unique experiences makes us all stronger. Thanks to Monika Voegel and Madlene Hochleitner for their contributions. Probably the biggest event of the year is approaching. Every two years there is a Worldshop Confer- ence. The current conference is being organized by our two Italian members, Ctm Altromercato and Associazione Botteghe del Mondo. I have had the pleasure to work with the organizing committee on the program and I was lucky enough to be able to visit Bolzano and review the conference facilities. This is going to be a truly great conference. The focus is on the future. How can we build NEWS into the retail channel of the Fair Trade movement of future? By having speakers from the local to Euro- pean niveau the organizers will bring our participants plenty to think about and contribute to. This will be a very interactive conference. I am looking forward to hearing about how the movement began in Italy and what is happening in the European Union. How can the Worldshop movement support high level advocacy? How can we build our existing markets? What efforts are being made to open new markets? As Fair Traders we are the guardians to the consumer; how can certification and monitoring provide us with a unique selling point and prevent fair-trade washing? It promises to be a most event- ful weekend! Enjoy this second summer edition and let us know what you would like to see in the NEWSletter. We are always very interested in what our readers think and would like to know about. Hoping to meet some of you in Bolzano! Jeanne Marie Jarka Coordinator œ NEWS NEWS: Christofsstr. 13 | 55116 Mainz | Germany | tel. +49 6131 9066 410 | www.worldshops.org | [email protected] Network of European Worldshops 2 NEWSletter: Summer 2006 Red Cards at European Parliament Early next morning we are all assembled to be- The NEWS Office was still overwhelmed by the gin helping FAO hand our information on the success of our campaign when we all realized vote and badges. The message: I VOTE FAIR that we had to do more with these red cars. TRADE. We all sat together to see the vote. You 10,000‘s of thousands of messages from chil- could feel the anticipation in the air. The emo- dren and adults all over Europe demanding the tions were running high with anticipation. At end of exploitative child labour. Our solution last the vote. The vote passed. The chair con- was to join forces with the Fair Trade Advocacy gratulated the rapporteur and it was at once the Office and the IFAT Global Journey to create a end and the beginning. You could feel the surge real experience at the European level. Thanks of success from all the people who worked so to Anja Osterhaus of the Fair Trade Advocacy hard for this to finally happen. For Anja Oster- Office we had the opportunity to participate in a haus and her team and MEP Frithjof Schmidt this reception and the vote on the —Report on Fair was a huge success and we congratulate them. Trade and Development“. By joining forces it was possible to make our voices heard at the European level. It only took one email to Anja Osterhaus to get things moving at the speed of light. NEWS could European W orldshops Conference: help support her with a reception to show sup- port and convince the skeptical in anticipation of the FAIR TRADE vote that due to take place in the early afternoon of the 6th of July. With the help of trains, buses, shuttles and one car, the NEWS Office finally arrived in Strasbourg. The We‘re off to Italy!! NEWS Office walked into the reception room at NEWS and her Italian members Associazione 15:00 on the 5th of July. We had two and one Botteghe del Mondo and CTM-Altromercato in- half hours to transform a white conference room vite you to the European Worldshops Confer- into a vibrant visual message; an urgent and ence. The conference will take place in Bolzano, unrelenting message that exploitative child la- Italy between 6th and 8th October. This year the bour must be abolished and showing our support main goal is to build a common strategy for Eu- for the principles of FAIR TRADE. With the help ropean Worldshops movement through sharing of many people the room was transformed into a experiences and ideas. wall of red cards. Red cards in nine different In recent years fair trade increased both in languages filled large baskets from Bangladesh, terms of turnover and visibility within Europe, photo‘s of our event in Potsdam covered a wall. so in order to benefit from this opportunity a NEWS made a significant contribution to the wider awareness of international, regional and success of the evening. national context is needed. Five MEP‘s signed our special ”BIG RED CARD“ in Since European institutions, such as the Euro- support of our campaign, including the rappor- pean Parliament, are now dealing with fair trade teur of the Report, MEP Frithjof Schmidt. issues and given that at a national level new fair trade legislations are arising, the first session of the conference will be focused on the desire to give fair trade recognition, rules and value. In the second section we will analyse issues re- lated to criteria, certifications and monitoring National Worldshop Associations, all defining elements to guarantee an additional value to fair trade activities. The third session will deal with proposals and perspectives on NEWS! and her future. The aim is to become an outstanding political actor at European level through the economic sustain- Camera‘s flashed, reporters asked questions and ability, effective campaigns and lobbying activi- a TV crew filmed the event. NEWS: Christofsstr. 13 | 55116 Mainz | Germany | tel. +49 6131 9066 410 | www.worldshops.org | [email protected] Network of European Worldshops 3 NEWSletter: Summer 2006 ties. The process involves several aspects con- Participants from Germany, Austria and Belgium, cerning structures, goals and available resources as well as guests from England, Ecuador, the of the network. Dominican Republic, India, Panama and the Phil- ippines got to know like-minded people, to share Each of us is called to give a major contribution experiences, opinions and ideas œ and not least to deal with this new challenge for the European to make new friends. The organisers from Ger- fair trade movement. many and Austria went home with bags of inspi- Please contact your national Worldshops Asso- ration and motivation for the further develop- ciation for to find out how the registration proc- ment of their youth project. ess is organised in your country. The registra- For info go to www.fairjobbing.net or contact tion form can also be found on NEWS website Monika Vöegel [email protected] www.worldshops.org/activities/conference.html Fair Trade Points: how young people in Austria can also get active. Fair Trade is finding its way into Austrian Austria’s Fair Successes schools: two years ago ARGE Weltläden initiated a programme which aimed to motivate young Come In œ Go Fair! Three days packed with people themselves to raise awareness on Fair fair activities at a fair trade youth confer- Trade and to sell Fair Trade products in their ence. own environment. After all, peers can approach and activate their peers better than anyone else! Instead of singing football songs at the The pupils and teachers that want to get in- end of June, 100 volved with Fair Trade Points are actively sup- young people from ported by the local Worldshops.
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