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- location:
- Silicon Valley, California
- What best describes you (you can choose more than one)
- Business person, Activist
- A few things that interest you (you can check more than one)
- fair trade, reading, traveling, learning, the outdoors, environamental justice
- Website:
- http://tradeasone.com
- how you learned about and got involved in fair trade,
- I challenge anyone to go have a meal in the house of someone on $1 a day and not be changed, infected with a passion to do justice. Faith is believing despite the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. Love requires action. So does Faith. People are tired of words.
- Favorite place you have traveled
- Impossible question to answer. India, New Zealand, Japan, France, Lebanon, Cornwall, Point Reyes all hold favourite memories.
- favorite music, books, movies...
- Radiohead, Jesus and the Victory of God by NT Wright, The Matrix
Nathan George's Videos
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Nathan George's discussions
Summary from May Advocate phone call
Replied May. 9, 2007
Online Marketing Expert Needed!
Started May. 2, 2007
Nathan George's Blog
Pastor's Wives
Time magazine recently ran an article that outlined how difficult it was to be a pastor's wife. You can read it at: Times Article on Pastor's Wives
I know many of these sort of women (actually I grew up a missionary kid so I more often observed missionary wives). They are a formidable and influential group of people who Ibelieve would love what we do at Trade as One. Any ideas on ho…
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Posted on May 14th, 2007 at 4:39pm —
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Fran Healey of Travis
Fran Healey, lead singer of Travis, after a trip he made to South Africa to visit the poor..
“It appeals to our ego to consider what ‘we’ have and what ‘they’ need. The people I met were extremely poor, conditions were basic; alcoholism was rife. My first impression was typical of a westerner: I thought “these poor people”…
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Posted on May 1st, 2007 at 9:17pm —
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Feedback from the Do Justice event at North Point church, Atlanta
On 2nd April about 600 people attended an event hosted by North Point church in Atlanta that highlighted the issue of human trafficking and child soldiers. Through high quality video, art and narrative, people were exposed to the stories of a handful of the 27m people in slavery today. The final environment of the event was one that celebrtated the hope that exists through organizations that provide routes out of these desperate lives.
Trade as One provided products that people could b…
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 at 4:25pm —
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