Worker Empowerment & Trade Justice in the Dominican Republic
January 2nd – 10th
Worker Empowerment & Trade Justice in the Dominican Republic January 2nd – 10th
Join the Fair World Project (FWP) to explore the emerging world of workers’ rights, union-made living-wage apparel and trade justice in the Dominican Republic. FWP’s Dominican Republic tour will provide an on the ground opportunity to learn from Alta Gracia factory workers, Free Trade Zone garment workers organizing for their rights, social justice activists, and small cooperative producers. Alta Gracia is a living-wage union-made apparel initiative on more than 400 college campuses that was ten years of student-worker organizing in the making. This video made by students in United Students Against Sweatshops is a good overview of the project’s history, as is this recent article from The Nation and this New York Times article.
In addition to experiencing the reality of workers and farmers in the Dominican Republic, tour participants will meet workers organizing in the so-called “Free Trade Zones” and gain a wider context of how trade law impacts local communities.
Amidst beach time, dancing, chocolate, and loads of fun, we’ll learn how to run strong, direct action campaigns on our campuses back home, and follow up as a community in the Spring as we run and win parallel campaigns at our universities.
This tour will facilitate home stays for participants with Alta Gracia families.
Tour Highlights Include Visiting and
Experiencing:
Visit the ground breaking Alta
Gracia apparel factory and meet with union workers
Experience the realities of
working and living in a “free trade zone”
Visit with cocoa and banana coop
members and workers
Organizing 101 workshops
Dancing, beach and fun!
Cost: $500
Package Includes:
Guest Family Housings; two meals a
day
On-ground transportation including
airport pick-up and drop-off
Translation and program activities
Speaker and worker honorariums
Preparatory reading materials
NOT INCLUDED: airfare, airport
departure taxes, lunches, tips, and personal expenses.
How to Register:
Register online and pay a non-refundable deposit of $250 by December
15st.
Contact Ryan (ryan@fairworldproject.org) with any questions
about this trip, or call toll-free 800-631-9980.
About Fair World Project Tours
FWP Tours provide a unique opportunity to visit projects,
businesses and organizations to expand and deepen your understanding of Fair
Trade, from the producer to the consumer. Tour participants will have the
opportunity to meet with farmers, cooperative members, workers and artisans and
learn firsthand the realities and challenges of fair trade.
FWP Tours provide a unique opportunity to visit projects,
businesses and organizations to expand and deepen your understanding of Fair
Trade, from the producer to the consumer. Tour participants will have the
opportunity to meet with farmers, cooperative members, workers and artisans and
learn firsthand the realities and challenges of fair trade.