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11 November 2026

Paul Rice's Uplifting Fair Trade Story (2)

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“Being Fair Trade Certified means meeting high standards put in place to ensure safe working conditions and sustainable livelihoods for those involved in the process of making palm oil, as well as environmental protection for the areas from which this oil is produced.”
In the first half of my review of Paul Rice’s book, I mentioned how the Fair Trade certifying nonprofit, Fair Trade USA (or Fair Trade Certified), he founded in 1998 was originally a branch of the global FT label, FLO (today called FairTrade International). But he gradually became dissatisfied with their unwillingness to certify anything but small farms organized as…
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19 October 2026

Paul Rice's Uplifting Fair Trade Story (1)

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From the World Cocoa Foundation, “Fairtrade’s New Cocoa Standard: Striking a balance between robust requirements and fairness for farmers” [“Fairtrade” in one word is mainly used by the oldest Fair Trade certifying body, Fairtrade International]
Can businesses do good in the world? Can multinational corporations with a public track record of chasing short-term profits while harming people, their communities and the natural environment change course over time and adopt new business models that lift poor farmers and factory workers from poverty and actually regenerate their environments? In his book out this year, Paul Rice tells…
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27 August 2026

Toward a More Just and Generous Immigration System

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Haitian immigrant Monsanto Maler, center, cries and collapses after receiving an ankle monitor at a Department of Homeland Security field office during a mandatory check in, on Aug. 9, 2026, in Blue Ash, Ohio. Many Haitians are fearful of an impending ICE immigration enforcement surge and being returned to Haiti, which is still in the grip of anarchy and dangerous gang violence. (Photo by Carol Guzy)
I began this short series on immigration by quoting from Amy Pope’s 2025 article, “Migration Can Work for All: A Plan for Replacing a Broken Global System.” She can write with authority on this topic, since she is the Director General of the UN’s International Organization for Migration. Recall that she argued that illegal migration is on the rise; that…
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17 August 2026

Faith Leaders Stand Up for Immigrants

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Pope Leo XIV pays tribute at the cemetery and on little Joussef's grave, in Lampedusa, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday, July 4, 2026, during a one-day pastoral visit to an island that has become a symbol of the risks faced by migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. (Pool Photo/Ciro Fusco, via AP)
The Trump administration announced its goal of arresting 2,000 immigrants daily, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, which is in charge of ICE) has never been able to reach that number. But its agents have been using new tactics recently, “from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest,” in order to boost their…
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