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GX CAMPAIGNS
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Fair Trade, Fair Treatment
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 The Chocolate industry is marred with child slavery, environmental degradation, and a cycle of poverty with no end in sight for cocoa farmers and their children. BUT, there is a solution: Fair Trade! |
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Climate Change
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 Global warming is garnering world-wide attention, but what will stop climate change? Who will lead this global struggle? The solution is a new clean energy economy that prioritizes renewable energy and green jobs. The leaders must be youth and affected communities. |
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Local Green Economy
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 "The only real antidote to corporate globalization is the local green economy." Building local, equitable economies is central to displacing the structures that give corporations power over people and the planet. |
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Mexico, Trade & Migration
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 What drives almost 500,000 Mexicans to immigrate to the United States every year, leaving home for a risky and uncertain life abroad? Wasn't NAFTA supposed to make widespread immigration a thing of the past? |
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Peace: Stop the Next War Now
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 Global Exchange’s Peace Campaigns are inspiring creative actions to expose the real cost of war, challenge war profiteering and military recruitment, and build people to people ties to displace the dangerous myths about Islamic identity. |
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Sweatfree Communities
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 Global Exchange is part of a national "sweatfree" movement to guarantee that our tax dollars do not support factory abuses or underwrite worker exploitation.
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Cuba Campaigns
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 Designated by the World Wildlife Fund as the only nation living sustainably, Cuba is still the sole country U.S. citizens are not allowed to travel to. At a time when many in the U.S. are scrambling to figure out how to live a sustainable life, Americans are missing an opportunity to learn from a country that provides a potential model. |
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CODEPINK
Global Exchange’s sister program, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, is a national, women-led peace group that uses creativity, humor and its signature color, pink, to end the Iraq war.
Right to Travel: Cuba
Since 1989 Global Exchange has played a leading role in the effort to normalize relations with our neighbor, Cuba. Our primary goals are to get Cuba removed from the US list of potential terrorist countries, end the US embargo on Cuba, and end travel restrictions between the US and Cuba.
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