Reverse trick or treating--give away chocolate for fair trade

eridani

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Thu Oct-15-09 06:44 AM
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Reverse trick or treating--give away chocolate for fair trade

Edited on Thu Oct-15-09 06:45 AM by eridani

Join us for "Reverse Trick-or-Treating"

Chocolate, mmm so yummy but at the heart of what's wrong with our trade agreements. Too often chocolate production exploits child labor and worker's rights. So we'll be walking the streets of Tacoma to hand out "fair trade" chocolate and educating our neighbors about trade agreements and their impact on working families. Bring your costume!

We'll be meeting at First United Methodist Church and canvassing the local neighborhood on Saturday, October 24th at 3pm.

See the KOMO 4 coverage from our last adventure in Reverse Trick-or-Treating:
7.34 minutes in to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0FzxSJL0g

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vadawg

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Thu Oct-15-09 06:46 AM
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1. is the chocolate any good, thats the selling point

people buy the candy that they like regardless, for me nothing tastes better than a milky way or a turkish delight...

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eridani

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Thu Oct-15-09 06:55 AM
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2. It's a lot like microbrewed beer--quite high quality n/t

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vadawg

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Thu Oct-15-09 07:28 AM
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3. depends if thats what you like, beer wise i like the crap beers

apart from a couple of brews, you know that you will never get people to give up their favourite chocobars unless you hold a gun to their head..

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Pab Sungenis

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Thu Oct-15-09 07:57 AM
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4. Understood, but we won't join in.

We prefer to give out comic books for Halloween.

But good luck with the endeavor.

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FormerDittoHead

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Thu Oct-15-09 08:17 AM
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5. Guess who doesn't have kids! The people doing THIS.

Oh yeah. This would go over REAL BIG with my boys. No, we're not going to people to get candy like all of the kids you go to school with, we're buying candy and giving it out to educate those about trade agreements. It's really important...

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vadawg

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Thu Oct-15-09 08:19 AM
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6. yup if you want to give my kids candy for halloween fine, but im not going to let you lecture them

or try to give them leaflets etc, its halloween, they get to dress up, have fun and get to much candy.....

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Bill McBlueState

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Thu Oct-15-09 08:28 AM
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7. so people are doing only one or the other?

I didn't see that in the OP.

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