Monday, December 7, 2009

Maine Fair Trade Campaign meets

AfD national council member and Downeast chapter coordinator Bonnie Preston writes:

The Maine Fair Trade Campaign had a very successful annual meeting today with lunch catered by Local Sprouts Cooperative, a caterer that uses entirely local, organic food. Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME-2nd) was there to accept a "Fair Trade Champion" award, which he assures us will go on his office wall. Alliance for Democracy, through Nancy Price, generously donated two of the Seattle ponchos to help MFTC fund-raise. One poncho was awarded to Matt Schlobom, the original coordinator of MFTC, now working for the Maine AFL-CIO as Public Policy and Political Mobilization Director. (Matt also got a Fair Trade Champion award.) The other was raffled off through an equity raffle and raised $128--not an insignificant amount for our small group.

Daphne Loring, MFTC's current coordinator, thanked the AfD council for this and all of the support MFTC has gotten from Alliance for Democracy. Daphne asked me to present the award and poncho to Matt, so AfD was featured in a way at the meeting.

Rep. Michaud told us that he has been invited to Europe to speak to European Union leadership about the TRADE Act. He said the issues addressed in the act are of concern all over the world.

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