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- Are you a student, a researcher, a teacher, a supply chain worker, a business exec, a citizen, a shopper?
- Are you an activist, a filmmaker, an artist, an animator, a photographer, a playwright, a journalist?
- Are you concerned about exploitation, inequality & injustice in trade?
- Do you want to help create more just & sustainable futures?
- Are you studying and/or developing new trade justice activism?
- What can you learn from generations of activists who have tried?
- followthethings.com is a 'one stop shop' for this work.
- We've scoured the internet for everything ever said about 100+ examples.
- We're keen to learn how this work works, and what it can do.
- We want to connect:
- Intentions: what trade justice activists want their work to do: e.g. "Pop the bubble" or "Improve workers' pay & conditions"
- Tactics: how they bring these intentions to life: e.g. "Hold 'em accountable" or "Workers take the mic"
- Responses: how audiences react to their work: e.g. "This is disgusting" or "Who's responsible?"
- and Impacts: the change that trade justice activism can make: e.g. "Now we're talking" or "Governments intervene"
- For more, check the draft pages of our 'Handbook for trade justice activism'.
- Trade justice activism is messy, uncertain, nonlinear, all over the place, inspiring, worrying, powerful.
- On followthethings.com ‘shopping’ has an important double meaning.
- On the one hand, it means “to seek or examine goods, property, etc. offered for sale”.
- On the other hand, it means “to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray” or “to give away information about” those goods, property, etc.
- Anyone who makes trade justice activism, and anyone who visits this site, is a ‘shopper’.
- "Whoever said money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping" - Bo Derek.
- So, browse our store. Shop with us!