Anti-Body wishes everyone Happy Holidays! Thanks so much for your continued support and love of our fair trade body-care products. This year we have gained the support of more vendors, new on-line customers and fair trade friends around the globe.

From Anti-Body headquarters, we’d like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Happy Holidays and a blessed 2010!

Delta GDP and SEEJ present Burning Heart Production’s “The Fair Trade,” at Columbia University on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 at 8:30 pm. Check out their event page on Facebook for more information!

ΔGDP is a student group at Columbia University. The aim of the organization is to do everything they can as a community to support the growth of small businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Also, to encourage corporations in the developed world to practice social responsibility through fair trade and investment in communities in the developing world.

Planet Green posted the Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide to their webiste! Take a minute to vote at the bottom of their post!

Thanks, Planet Green!

As an Official Supporter of the “Fair Trade the White House” outreach, Anti-Body is pleased to offer you a Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide to assist you this holiday season. Just as we are inviting the First Lady to fair trade her home, you can pick from fabulous fair trade gifts to make your home a “Fair Trade Home.” The Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guide includes over 80 fair trade gifts in categories ranging from body-care to food to clothing with exclusive discount offers throughout. Look for our products on page 6 & 10, and enjoying making the holidays fair to people and the planet.

EVENT: Busboys and Poets Fair Trade Night – Movie, Mini Spa, FREE Chocolate and MORE!

DATE/TIME: Monday, 19 October, 2009 6:00 PM

VENUE: Busboys and Poets @ 5th & K Streets
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-789-2227

You’re invited to Fair Trade Night!

VENUE: Global Exchange Shop at Busboys and Poets 5th & K Streets location

Join the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store to celebrate Fair Trade Month!

Treat yourself to a night of FREE Fair Trade treats, including:

• a screening of Burning Heart Production’s “The Fair Trade:” the story of c0-founders of Anti-Body Fair Trade cosmetics and how they came to dedicate their  lives to Fair Trade
• a mini spa lunch of our new line of Anti-Body beauty products, including lotions, bath fizzers and MORE! Test their fabulous scents – it’s Fair Trade!
• a book signing by Jackie DeCarlo, author of Fair Trade: A Beginner’s Guide, and learn how you can help “Fair Trade the White House“
• and (last but NOT least) a divine-ly delicious chocolate tasting with Divine Chocolate! -It’s positively decadent!!!

ABOUT GLOBAL EXCHANGE

Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting economic, political and social justice. Our Fair Trade program offers alternatives to sweatshop production by working with artisans and farmer cooperatives worldwide.

More about this calendar event:
http://www.meetup.com/DCFairTradeNet/calendar/11622262/

What an excellent day! We danced, we colored, we laughed and all in the name of fair trade! Thanks to everyone who came out to help us celebrate Fair Trade Month at Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena. It was a very Fairy Day!

See photos here.

Hello, Anti-Body fans of Jackie DeCarlo!! This week starts Fair Trade Month and there are two upcoming opportunities to hear her speak in the DC area.
You can find her first at the Green Festival, hosted by Green America and Global Exchange, on Sunday, October 11th at 4 pm (check out their website to see all key note speakers, vendors and more). Then, on October 15th, Jackie has the privilege of doing a Fair Trade month event at the Metro Washington GLBT Community Center located near Scott Circle downtown. Hear about fair trade, local activities, Fair Trade the White House campaign and more The event starts at 7 and all are welcome.

Jackie is an experienced traveler, author, speaker and advocate for social justice. Anti-Body has had the pleasure of hearing her speak at Pasadena’s Ten Thousand Villages & Just Lives Festival, and the privilege of working with her for Fair Trade the White House.

The Holidays always roll around a lot quicker than we anticipate, so Anti-Body’s getting started a lot earlier this year! Our collectable and fair trade  Nutcracker Sweet Lip Balms are now available online and at many locations near you. One package includes Clara (Strawberry), Sugar Plum Fairy (Plum) and the Nutcracker (Chocolate Hazelnut). These make great little stocking stuffers or make a great gift all on their own.

Get them while supplies last, now through the end of December!

Forbes takes notice of Ten Thousand Villages and their growing success with the fair trade trend. Read the article here to see how your purchase sustains more than just your wish list.

You can find Anti-Body products at select Ten Thousand Villages, including our very own local shop in Pasadena!

TIME published an intriguing article by Richard Stengel entitled For American Consumers, a Responsibility Revolution. Is it possible that Americans are shifting their shopping habits? This could bode well for fair trade!

Illustration by C.J. Burton for TIME

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,” FDR said in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. “We know now that it is bad economics.” We learned this all over again after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the shame of subprime mortgages and the brazen Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. But even amid the Great Recession of 2009, people have been trading in their SUVs for Priuses, buying record amounts of fair-trade coffee and investing in socially responsible funds at higher rates than ever before. What we are discovering now, in the most uncertain economy since FDR’s time, is that enlightened self-interest — call it a shared sense of responsibility — is good economics…

Read the full article here.