Maine Fair Trade Campaign

The Maine Fair Trade Campaign is a coalition of 51 labor, environmental, human rights, faith, and community organizations working together to build a just, sustainable, and democratic local and global economy. 

The mission of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign is to oppose unjust, unsustainable international trade policies and to work for the creation of socially, economically, and environmentally just trade policies and a fair global economy.

Matt Beck, IBEW 1837, speaks at a press conference calling on Senator Susan Collins to take a position on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement in April 2008.  Sandy Amborn (far left), Maine chapter of the Sierra Club, Alec Maybarduk, MSEA SEIU 1989, Rev. Elsa Peters, and other coalition members look on.  MFTC calls on Senator Collins to stop DUCKing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement and take a position, which she refuses to do.  

The purpose of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (MFTC) is to educate, organize and mobilize organizations and individuals to work for the creation of just trade policies and a fair global economy that respects working people, family farmers, our environment, and our democracy. We forward this purpose through education, statewide organizing and coalition building, state and national legislative work and lobbying, and the promotion of local and global fair trade alternatives. The MFTC works to help make the connections between international trade and economic policies and their local impact on Maine workers and small businesses, Maine's environment and Maine's democracy. In all of our work as a coalition, we do not take any actions that would injure member organizations in the coalition.

Contact:
Daphne Loring (MFTC Coordinator)
Sarah Bigney (MFTC Organizer)
238 Goddard Rd.
Lewiston, ME 04240

PH: (207) 777-6387
FAX: (207) 786-9773
daphne(at)mainefairtrade(dot)org
sarah(at)mainefairtrade(dot)org
www.mainefairtrade.org