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Urgent
actions
Other
Possible Actions
- Support the Interfaith
Principles on Trade and Investment by disseminating
and talking about them in your faith community.
- Sign, distribute and promote a petition
for trade justice!
- Download a free organizing kit for the
Global Week of Action on Trade, 10-16
April 2005. A 16 page Action Pack available in English,
French, Spanish, Portuguese and German, can be downloaded
from the Ecumenical
Advocacy Alliance: http://www.e-alliance.ch/tradepetition.jsp.
The action pack explains the idea and aims of the Week
and contains background information and practical suggestions
on how to organize effective events in your community
as well as how best to influence decision makers. The
EAA is a broad ecumenical network for coordinated international
advocacy on HIV/AIDS and global trade. The Alliance formally
endorsed the call to a Global Week of Action at its Trade
for People campaign consultation in Geneva in March 2004.The
U.S. Interfaith Trade Justice Campaign is part of the
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) “Trade for People Campaign.”
- Support Fair Trade Products and work
with the U.S. fair trade campaigns (for more information,
go to www.lwr.org ).
See also Co-op
America's Supermarket Campaign for outreach materials
and organizing ideas on how you can be part of a growing
movement by asking your local grocery stores, favorite
restaurants and other places of business to also carry
fair trade products.
- Contact the U.S. government to find
out more about the FTAA and hold the U.S. government accountable
to socially responsible trade and investment.
- Support socially responsible investment
through groups like the Interfaith
Center on Corporate Accountability.
- Initiate educational programs on trade
in your faith communities to learn more and share dialogue
on the FTAA.
- Sponsor exchanges among individuals from
the U.S. and the FTAA countries to better understand how
trade is impacting people on the ground (for example,
small scale farmers in the U.S. could meet with small
producers in Brazil and in Mexico).
Contact
U.S. decision makers on issues of trade justice!
- United
States Trade Representative
600
17th Street, N.W.
Washington
, DC
20508
United
States of America
For list of phone numbers for USTR contacts
on various trade topics see: http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/offices.html
- President
George W. Bush
The White House
Washington DC 20500
[email protected]
- White
House Comment Desk
Phone: (202) 456-1111
Fax: (202) 456-2461
- Senator
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U.S Senate
Washington, DC 20510
www.senate.gov
- Represntative
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U.S. House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515
www.house.gov
- Capitol
Switchboard
202-224-3121
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