Joe Turner is an activist and a maverick, seeking to think about and act upon issues to do with development, trade and justice.

For five years, Joe ran a small clothing company struggling to work with manufacturers in the occupied West Bank, in the process learning about the cotton industry, fairtrade, organic and other certification schemes.

He is now interested to contemplate the post-fairtrade landscape and the failings of the current system.

He is for hire:
skype: joe-freedom-turner

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fairtrade - purchasing indulgences? on Nov 27
Kourion - sun, sea and slavery on Nov 03
sainsbury's fairtrade banana promotion on Oct 27
downsizing 80% on Oct 21
imagining a trading system based on gandhian ethics on Oct 13

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