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...credit to farmers, which saves them from falling into debt to banks and coyotes. They can accumulate capital such as trucks and processing machinery, and by selling through cooperatives, farmers increase their market power. Fairly traded coffee is also better for the environment because farmers are given a 15 cent premium for organic coffee in addition to the guaranteed price of $1.26 per pound. Nearly 80 percent of fair trade coffee is organically grown and, because the majority is grown on small farms, the clear-cutting of rainforest in order to build large plantations does not occur...
...Within hours the ground attack will recommence. Led by U.S. soldiers, these bedraggled Afghan fighting men in dirty shalwar kameez, vests, sandals, camouflage jackets and pukul will step out from their cover and charge the terrorists' bunkers, praying the bombardment has softened the waiting defenses. "This is 100 per cent danger," says a mujahid nursing his Kalishnikov. "But I'm not afraid," he adds, unconvincingly...
...know the public-interest argument: the networks use the public airwaves, multi-billion dollar assets that they don't pay a cent for, so they owe the public a certain amount of public-affairs programming, even if it costs them. It's a valid point. But the ideal solution would be not to give the networks that access for free, but rather make them pay, and let the people decide how to spend that money in their own interest...
...favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality you see in the cinema," he says. "You watch it online, and if the movie is good, you go to the theater or go buy the DVD. We are promoting these Hollywood movies and not getting a single cent from the companies. They are just yelling at us." The ingrates...
Harvard’s offers are also unacceptable to many students, faculty and community members who have been rallying for economic justice for the last three years. While Harvard has quadrupled its endowment and increased tuition by more than 50 per cent since 1992, it has cut janitors’ real wages by more than 30 percent during the same period. Moreover, other area universities with much smaller endowments pay their custodians $14 to $16 per hour; Harvard’s $11 offer doesn’t even measure up to that standard and guarantees continued poverty to campus janitors...