BT wrote about our (SAIH’s) little Max Havelaar store-campaign yesterday: Meny kåret som bergensmester i rettferdig handel. Max Havelaar is part of the international Fairtrade-system. Not surprisingly, the stores with the largest selections of products, also were best at including Max Havelaar – with Meny at the top of the list. Most of the lowprice-stores had one or two Max Havelaar-products, and coffee were the most common product to find. As the coffee-prices fluctute very much, it’s good to see the increasing avaibility of fairtraded coffee – where the farmers get a fixed price. Juice, tea and bananas were also found at many stores. Hopefully we’ll see more of the less common products, rice and chocolate, coming soon. A bit surprising was the fact that many of the employers in the stores hadn’t even heard of the Max Havelaar-system.
For specially interested, I’ve uploded the results here
Left in an emotional chaos after watching Bread and Roses. The movie is based on a well-known campaign, Justice for Janitors, where janitor-workers fought for their rights in Los Angeles in the late eighties. During the film, we really get to know the workers, we witness some of the results of their fight, but also the enormous losses of it. Many of the janitors in the movie are illegal immigrants, and you really get into their hopeless situation. The enormous socioeconomic difference between them and the people working in the buildings they clean leaves a really bad feeling in you. It’s been years since last time I cried of a movie… but it also made me laugh!
Sadly, information from SEIU, a large union for janitors and other workers, indicate that the fight isn’t over in USA even today. Progress is made, but many workers are still exploited.
AP celebrated and the Palestinians celebrated. On the internet-edition of the swedish newspaper Expressen, the two happy newsarticles occured next to each other in an artistic way tonight:
… to check if things work. Earlier posts can be found on http://www.gammaglimt.net/ until further, but I’ll see if I can move them over in some time.
