Author Topic: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)  (Read 1364 times)

Julian

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Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« on: 30 March, 2017, 09:48:41 am »
This isn't a pro / anti Brexit post!

If we must have Brexit, and it seems we must, please would you, dear YACFers, sign this to encourage our leaders to do something actually good with it, and share it on.

I've become a change dot org wanker for this so c'mon, don't leave me hanging here. Everyone hates slavery - even Nigel Farage, surely - and the poverty and misery being perpetuated by these trade deals is horrific.  Bunging a tenner at Comic Relief while munching a Kit-Kat is inadequate as a solution for the children who have their feet slashed open for trying to escape the cocoa farms of Sierra Leone. This could genuinely be an opportunity for change for the better.

Optimistically yours

Pollyanna

https://www.change.org/p/david-davis-mp-commit-to-a-fair-trade-slavery-free-brexit

barakta

  • Bastard lovechild of Yomiko Readman and Johnny 5
Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #1 on: 30 March, 2017, 09:51:47 am »
Already signed off your FB but wanted to say thanks for the info about this "modern day slavery" stuff.

Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #2 on: 30 March, 2017, 10:04:59 am »
Done.

I have also forwarded the link to people I believe will also sign.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #3 on: 30 March, 2017, 11:30:40 am »
Ok.  :thumbsup:
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Guy

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Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #4 on: 30 March, 2017, 12:17:53 pm »
 :thumbsup: Done
"The Opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject"  Marcus Aurelius

Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #5 on: 30 March, 2017, 12:54:21 pm »
I oversee a spend of >$20 million USD and sign up to this: https://www.sedexglobal.com/

I might be vain, but I think as far as personally making a difference it does more than clicking a web petition.

[My 50 tonnes a year of cocoa come from Cote D'Ivoire]

mattc

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Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #6 on: 30 March, 2017, 01:08:26 pm »
I oversee a spend of <$20 million USD  ...

So do I. I don't expect anyone to be impressed.


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Re: Fair Trade Brexit (not a POBI post!)
« Reply #7 on: 30 March, 2017, 01:32:40 pm »
I see what I did there.  :facepalm: