{"id":41249,"date":"2016-09-26T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41249"},"modified":"2016-09-26T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:09:19","slug":"brock-marks-fourth-annual-fair-trade-campus-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/brock-marks-fourth-annual-fair-trade-campus-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock marks fourth annual Fair Trade Campus Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth year, Brock will celebrate its designation as a Fair Trade Campus this week with events and giveaways across the University.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by Brock students Anneka Bosse and Charissa DiMarco in 2011, the Brock Fair Trade club was created to raise awareness and educate staff and students about fair trade issues.<\/p>\n<p>Brock was designated as a Fair Trade Campus in September, 2013 by Fair Trade Canada and the Canadian Fair Trade Network and earned the title of Fair Trade Campus of the year in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth annual Fair Trade Campus week is Brock\u2019s biggest ever with events running from Tuesday until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fair Trade Vendors<\/em>: Vendors Casa Relief, Shannon Passero, bellabuddhabeads, Moyaa Shea will be on campus selling their fair trade clothing and accessories throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, Sept. 27 \u2013 Thursday, Sept. 29<\/p>\n<p>Time: Noon \u2013 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Guernsey Market<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Banana Giveaway<\/em>: Grab a free banana at all FTC week events and at the General Brock store.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, Sept. 27 \u2013 Thursday, Sept. 29<\/p>\n<p>Location: Guernsey Market; General Brock Store<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Fairtrade Ice Cream Giveaway: <\/em>Grab a free Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Ice Cream.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, Sept. 27<\/p>\n<p>Time: Afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Location: Isaac\u2019s Bar and Grill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Conversation Caf\u00e9: <\/em>A talk about fair trade on Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, Sept. 28<\/p>\n<p>Time: Afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Location: General Brock Store<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Documentary Screening: <\/em>A free screening of the documentary Black Gold about the dark side of the world coffee industry.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, Sept. 28<\/p>\n<p>Time: 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Location: AS201<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Coffee House<\/em>: A musical performance and the closing ceremony for the week\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Thursday, Sept. 29<\/p>\n<p>Time: Noon \u2013 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Guernsey Market<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to find Fair Trade at Brock<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All coffee served at Dining Services and BUSU locations on campus is Fairtrade certified (FTC) plus one Fairtrade option at the independent Starbucks locations.<\/li>\n<li>At least three FTC teas are available wherever tea is served (excluding independents)<\/li>\n<li>At least one FTC chocolate bar is available at every location selling chocolate bars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth year, Brock will celebrate its designation as a Fair Trade Campus this week with events and giveaways across the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[4509,4507,4508,3375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}