Good news! Oxford has been recertified as a Fairtrade City in time for Fairtrade Fortnight. This is a process which has to be undergone regularly, and the Oxford Fairtrade Coalition has been working hard to ensure that we still meet or exceed the criteria - which we do! The Coalition, like us, has gone blog-crazy, and you can find details of what's going on during Fairtrade Fortnight on the new site.
In particular, there will be an event on 23 February from 7 till 9pm at Oxford Town Hall to discuss the motion ‘Is trade justice a lost cause?’. Speakers will include Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation; John Hilary, Director of War on Want; Fiona Shera, Head of Trade and Development, DFID-BERR; and Edwin Laurent, Former Special Envoy to the EU for the Windward Islands.
This year, the Fairtrade Foundation are asking us to go bananas,and take part in a world record attempt on the biggest mass-banana-consumption event in history (words I would not have anticipated ever having to write). If like me, you think bananas are there to be laughed at and not eaten, then you may be interested in my Fairtrade banana video:
Or then again, you may not.
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Nice video.
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The gold ol' bananaphone practical joke. Take the receiver off your victim's phone and hide it in a draweror desk clutter. Put a banana in the reciever's place so that it holds down the switch and the phone can ring. Call the phone when the victim will have to rush over to get it. Victim has to pick up the banana to stop the phone ringing and instinct takes over - they are bound to put to their ear, just in time for you to take an incriminating photo.
I like this a lot! The phones at work aren't quite the right shape for this to work well but I might just be able to pull it off...
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