"What's Unfair About Trade?"
Amnesty International Club educates Western students
Katlyn Sylvia
Issue date: 1/28/09 Section: Culture
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The movie shown in the Arbuthnot Lounge was "What's Unfair About Trade?" and was very educational to the students in attendance. Fair trade is a social movement throughout the world that encourages fair prices for mostly agricultural goods from one country to another.
The focus of the film was mainly on developed countries paying full and fair price for goods from countries still developing and searching for economic stability. Fair trade also includes better living standards for the developing countries' people when making products that are to be sent to fully developed countries.
Though fair trade has increased 47 percent in the last year, this video includes many reasons why the entire trade industry should require entirely "fair" policies. Fair trade also establishes a sustainable relationship between countries that can continually provide the same product without undue hardship or difficulty. This encourages person-to-person contact between big business and small communities worldwide, as well as creating stronger bonds between two groups of working people who otherwise would not know each other's names let alone become working business partners.
Amnesty International Club definitely opened our eyes to "What's Unfair About Trade." The club hosts weekly meetings throughout the year and will host other events in the future.
Amnesty International is a school sponsored club that promotes, supports and puts basic human rights into the limelight. On the "international" scale, Amnesty groups add up to roughly 2.2 million people. Those involved are encouraged to support acts of peace in aswell as fair and healthy conditions for humans everywhere.
To find out more about Amnesty International contact: Lizzi Bowling ebowling06@wou.edu & Maureen Dolan dolanm@wou.edu
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