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Suzy Sikorski
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| Name: | Suzy | | Location: | New York City |
| Date registered | 09.16.2013 |
| Date of birth: | 20. June 1994 |
| Last online: | Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:21 am |
| Sex: |  female |
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11.19.2013 |
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Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:42 am | jump to post
"Reluctant Entrepreneurs" paints the micro-finance community in a much different light than the media. Despite the term, "entrepreneurial poor," it seems as if there has been a disconcerting morale towards the micro-credit returns. He paints the poor in two different lights--as likely to go into business as the rich, and still managing enough money to repay their loans. It is clearly shown however that when given an initial support of money and provisions, the poor can start to exit out of extre...
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10.22.2013 |
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:35 am | jump to post
"Game-Playing: Rethinking Power and Empowerment," is an in depth analysis of the origins of the fair trade movement, through the different categories of power. The writer makes a clear distinction between resistance and game-playing, elaborating with the latter as it manifests defiance in a form that brings about radical change. This change develops new structures in the transnational level.
The writer seeks to elaborate on two assumptions: the inevitability of resistance whenever there is power...
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:09 am | jump to post
In "Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy," William Foote discusses the business framework behind Root Capital and it's efforts to fulfill economic and social needs to farming cooperatives. Read in the light of Shiwahiade, a Tanzanian cooperative farmer, this reading emphasizes the purpose of financing companies and the benefits for both producers and consumers.
I learned that despite global demand for ethically and eco-friendly produced products, there is a missing middle that has lost it's represe...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:45 am | jump to post
Every reading in this class has made me realize that despite the amount of dedicated service and aid for these third world countries, there is so much more work to be done. "A Brilliant Idea" is a cry for justice.. even amongst our fellow Fair Trade certified comrades! For multinational corporations, obtaining the Fair Trade label is not meant to represent the company as 100% morally right. It seems as if the Fair Trade products are becoming commodified, and companies simply seek to obtain the l...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:56 am | jump to post
I was glad to about the birth of the Fair Trade movement, and I am so happy that each assignment for this class truly reshapes the way I think in my everyday life. All stemming from the metaphor that God has sculpted man from his hands, these pages underscore our roles as humans: to imprint our identity onto someone or something--whether it be handicrafts, an impoverished child we help, or through decisions we make as a conscious consumer. We have a role to make a difference.
What frustrates me...
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09.16.2013 |
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:15 pm | jump to post
Hi all. After watching "Blood Coltan," it seriously has changed the way I will look at my phone. This phone is the living emblem of the continuing struggle in the Congo. Right now, innocent children are forced to bear arms. Women are raped, tortured, and enslaved.
One part that impacted me was when the journalist asked the Congolese what the coltan was for. He was about 15 years old, and was working in a mine with other children, some much younger. Apart from knowing coltan is a mineral, he had...
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