Saturday and Sunday, noon to 9 pm, located at Morse and Glenwood in Rogers Park.

The Glenwood is one of my FAVORITE festivals! Great artists in an AWESOME neighborhood.

Come say hi!

12 Noon to 7pm
Dawes Park, Sheridan Rd at Church
Free admission

June 26-27, from noon to 10 pm. Located on Chicago Ave between Ashland and Noble.

www.custerfair.com

Midsommarfest is Andersonville’s annual street festival - going on it’s 45th year!  Great music, vendors, and food in a WONDERFUL neighborhood.

Come and say hi!

The festival is open Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6, from 12 - 10 pm.

This is a great festival with great music! Check out the poster for the line-up.

Summer is here!!!

I also wanted to share a campaign that Green America is launching to celebrate World Fair Trade Day - Fair Trade Your SuperMarket.

Check it out! They provide some really great practical guidelines about how to get fair trade products into your local supermarket. It’s frustrating to not be able to find fair trade products in the places you normally shop to get your groceries. Instead of making choices which compromise your ideals, why not take some action to fair trade your supermarket?

From Green America, below is a sampling of resources found on the Fair Trade Your Supermarket Campaign website:

Action steps – Steps to you can take to convince a store to go Fair Trade.
Postcards – Downloadable messages that you can mail to supermarket headquarters, or drop in comment boxes
What to say – Talking points for sharing the story of Fair Trade with store managers
In-store messaging – Downloadable shelf-cards to place where a Fair Trade product should be in a store (or drawing other shoppers’ attention to the Fair Trade products that are there)
Picture uploading – Send us an image of yourself at the supermarket, and we’ll ad you to our slideshow of Fair Trade shoppers across the country who are working to make Fair Trade more available everywhere.
Twitter – Include #FairTradeYourSupermarket in your tweets to let your friends and fellow campaigners know what you’ve done to Fair Trade Your Supermarket.

Happy World Fair Trade Day!!

For more information visit Columbia College Recycling.

This party is to fundraise for seven non-profit organizations that raise awareness about education for all children, fair trade, and living in sustainable environment (think green!).
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Masquerade for a Cause!

Wednesday, April 7^th

Simone’s Bar 960 W. 18th St.

Time: 7pm to close 2am

Hosted by Ervin Lopez

7pm - 9pm: Looking for volunteer opportunities? internships? responsible travel tourism?

Meet and greet the seven non-profit organizations:

Los Patojos/Rising Minds, Chicago Fair Trade, Greenheart, Mayaworks,

Womancraft, Academy for Global Citizenship, UNICEF-DePaul U.

FREE appetizers: vegatable quesadillas, tortilla chip chicken fingers, empanadas, and more!

9pm - 2am: music provided by Chicago dj’s: Omar Perez, Rick Perez

21 to enter, $10 door charge

Buy your tickets in advance!

***DRINK SPECIALS***
$5.50–> Cupaca Chupacabra (micro-brew from Calexico, California)
$5 –> a tall boy of PBR with a shot of Jameson

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70% of proceeds will go the following seven organizations:

1. Los Patojos & Rising Minds
2. Chicago Fair Trade
3. Greenheart
4. Mayaworks
5. Womancraft
6. UNICEF-DePaul University
7. Academy for Global Citizenship