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October is Fair Trade Month! Fusce facilisis. Praesent convallis, nibh iaculis fringilla euismod, sem magna iaculis mauris, sed interdum ante orci consequat.
The Fair Trade Resource Network (see their awesome website: FTRN homepage) posted the story they picked up from the Associated Press wire service. The story was originally published in the Houston Chronicle on August 10, 2008. It features comments from our nationally known member Tiffany Le. Enjoy some truth.
Check it out here: AP wire story on activism
Title: SFT hosts radio show
Location: KPFT 90.1 FM
Description: We’re hosting Open Journal. Listen for the blow by blow about our campus campaign and a to be announce awesome guest! It’s the show UH President Renu Khator is afraid to listen to!
Date: 2008-09-24
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 13:00
The university president Renu Khator really really doesn’t like students. She doesn’t like seeing them, talking to them or answering their letters or addressing their concerns.
A few months ago she brought in one of her cronies from U of South Florida as the VP of Finance and Administration. He is a typical fourth tier administrator who thinks the university should be run as a dictatorship where the only thing that matters is profits for the corporations. Even though he said it’s business decisions that rule, when the faculty, staff and students decided through the shared governance process that they wanted an all fair trade vendor in the library, Carluccci said “NO.”
When we asked for a meeting to find out why, he sent us the the following email threatening one of our members with arrest. Check out his ignorance in the following videos also.
Part One
Part Two
Tiffany set the record straight with this letter that was published August 14. Le letter
Tiffany Le is quoted in this piece of corporate propaganda. Chron story page
