UPDATES, continued

• Verizon workers still need our help. Support them as they stand firm for middle class jobs by sending a message to CEO Lowell McAdam. Sign the IWJ petition & more>
  
  
• We join in religious solidarity with the Occupy movement. Read more here> and on Facebook. News Alert
  
  
  
• Thanks to all who helped us celebrate the power of coalitions at the Faith at Work Awards Reception in NYC
  
  
• This "Prayer for the American Dream" comes to us from an individual struggling to find full time employment.
  
• New York Fair Trade: December 2011 Update
  
  New York Fair Trade QR
  
  
  September E-News

  Update-Verizon
  Update-State Fair
  Update-Ithaca SF
  Update RMM 30th Invitation
  Update Labor in the Pulpits

  
  
• August 2011 E-News
  
  
• Farmworkers testify on June 14, 2011, in Albany: Photos and more
  
  
• This year's 40-Hour FAST in remembrance of the Triangle factory fire was a moving experience for many. Click here for highlights.
  

• If you believe in collecting bargaining rights and democracy, add your name to the national Open Letter from Faith Leaders or the Petition in support of public workers.
  
  

• View the Coalition's Justicing (PDF) newsletter from February 2011.
  
  

• Here's the letter [PDF] to Hershey CEO David West that acompanied 60 of your amazing valentines! Thanks to all who participated in the Have a Heart Hershey Campaign to end child labor and trafficking in the cocoa industry.
  
  
• The Dark Side of Chocolate: LRC's Fair Trade Project is one of several groups working to raise awareness about child labor in the cocoa industry using this recently released documentary. Read more >
  
  
• What will the Wage Theft Prevention Act mean for NY workers? More >

• Check out photos from the LRC's 30th Anniversary Conference and Celebration, Oct. 7-8, 2010.

• Landmark Domestic Workers Bill of Rights now in effect. Read more from the NYS Dept. of Labor and Labor Notes.

• NY Senate kills Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act in 28-31 vote on Aug. 3, 2010. More> from the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign
  
  

• Fair Trade Eyewitness Delegation (Feb. 2010) featured in Latino New York magazine—"Nicaragua: Land of Paradoxes" [PDF]

  
  

• What about system-wide sweatshop-free purchasing for SUNY schools? May 2010 update and more >

• Connecting Communities Through Fair Trade Chocolate: Two visitors from the CONACADO Fair Trade cacao co-operative meet LRC Fair Trade Project enthusiasts
  
  
• New York State joins the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium: Governor's letter [PDF], and more>.

• Does New York tax $$ subsidize sweatshops? Report results, NYS contracts, media release
  
  
• Are you a NYSUT member? View our Fair Trade section from a special NYSUT portal.

• Report: NY state Subsidizing Sweatshops
  
  

Last Updated: 01/18/2012
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