Articles
Reflections From Rink: The History of Our Alternative Capital Model
As we enter a new stage of Equal Exchange expanding our capital model, Equal Exchange Co-Founder and President Rink Dickinson reflects on the history of our capital model and its central role in our success in building an actual alternative economic model.
Reflections from Rink on the “Fair Trade Experiment”
Fair Trade is dead. What have we learned, and what’s next? Phyllis Robinson interviews Equal Exchange Co-Founder and President Rink Dickinson as he reflects on the nearly 40 year history of the movement and where it has left us as an organization and a community.
Celebrating 20 Years of Small Farmer Grown Chocolate
Equal Exchange is celebrating 20 years of our chocolate program! In honor of this chocolate anniversary, Dary Goodrich, our Chocolate Products Manager, is sharing some highlights, and a few lowlights, from Equal Exchange’s chocolate program as well as the chocolate industry over the past 20 years.
May Day Reflections: Building a Democratic Workplace
As we celebrate our 36th anniversary on May 1, we reflect not only on our own worker-owned cooperative and co-op trade partners but also on the history of May Day. Also known as International Workers’ Day, this is a day to celebrate and strengthen the ongoing struggle for labor justice and dignity for workers around the world.
The History of Equal Exchange
Fairness to farmers. A closer connection between people and the farmers we all rely on. This was the essence of the vision that the three Equal Exchange founders held in their minds and hearts as they stood together on a metaphorical cliff back in 1986.