Please join us in the Church Hall on Sunday, October 23 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. as we host more than 20 local businesses, artisan groups, and job training programs at our Solidarity Market. Get a jump on your holiday shopping by purchasing beautiful, and unique items.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to support organizations and businesses that uphold the ideals of solidarity, worker justice, and promote a fair, conscious economy!
“Through everyday actions, on everyday issues, we are creating living economies, living democracies, and living cultures. Diversity alliances, cooperation, and persistence are our strengths. Service, support, and solidarity are our means. Justice, human freedom, dignity, and ecological survival are our ends.”
Vandana Shiva
Excerpt from “Earth Democracy: Justice Sustainability, and Peace.”
The Solidarity Market offers you simple, new, and direct ways to support justice, dignity, human freedom and ecological survival by:
- Becoming aware of local, fair trade and environmentally conscious vendors who uphold the dignity and rights of workers, provide meaningful and productive work, as well as a decent and fair wage for their employees.
- Appreciating and supporting vendors through purchases of their products or learning about their services.
- Better understanding the impact your spending choices make on the lives of others with every purchase you make.
- Sampling delicious, local foods and Fair Trade coffee and teas while you learn about all the ways you can help make a just economy a reality through simple actions!
Small, local, and Fair Trade vendors will feature not only their products, but also share the stories of the individuals who grow or craft the items for sale. Make the choice to support those who empower and uplift workers near and far. Every purchase you make can be a step toward a more fair, just, and conscious economy.
Fair Trade • Local • Just • Sustainable
Handmade Soaps • Candles • Clothing • Scarves and Accessories
Food, Coffee, and Tea • Jewelry • Crafts • Home Furnishings
Two Important Reminders:
- All sales benefit the individual vendors. Old St. Patrick’s hosts this event in support of the good works and practices of these organizations and businesses.
- Please bring cash or checks as some vendors may not accept credit cards.
Solidarity Market Vendors
Abbey Brown Soap Artisan
www.abbeybrown.com
Abbey Brown Soap Artisan creates handmade natural olive oil soaps, soothing body oils and relaxing bathing essentials. All of their fine products are crafted by hand in Chicago’s West Loop using locally grown herbs and botanicals.
B-Healthy B-Happy
B-Healthy B-Happy provides foods that are nutritious, have many verified health benefits and support a change for the better in the communities that produce the products. For example, we offer Açaí based products. Açaí (a-sah-ee) is the fruit of a native, wild harvested palm tree in the Brazilian rainforest. It yields omega oils and antioxidants that have lent it a well deserved “superfruit” title. The international demand for it made the local and indigenous people aware of its commercial value, which is now keeping huge areas from deforestation — a practical contribution to the world’s oxygen production. It has enriched the lives of all that are part of this cycle, from consumers like us to the local people.
Bright Endeavors
www.brightendeavors.org
Bright Endeavors, a social enterprise of New Moms, Inc., is a non-profit, enterprise and outreach program that utilizes renewable, green resources to create job opportunities for homeless and at-risk young women. Through the production of Dreambean Candles, they use renewable resources to create renewed spirits.
Chicago Fair Trade
www.chicagofairtrade.org
Chicago Fair Trade works to reduce global poverty by increasing support for fair trade through education, advocacy and consumer campaigns. Learn how fair trade sports balls are reducing child labor in Pakistan.
Chocolate Twist
Chocolate Twist specializes in small batch, house made confections — twistedly tasty. Created by Old St. Pat’s parishioner and Queen of the Twist Kate Nolan.
Coprodeli
www.coprodeliusa.org
The mission for Coprodeli includes supporting local entrepreneurs and artists to ensure a quality and sustainable income. To achieve this goal, Coprodeli raises funds for strengthening and expanding their efforts in employment generation and business incubation.
Fair Earth
www.ourfairearth.com
Fair Earth is a fair trade marketplace working to promote global trade justice, celebrate Africa’s beauty, and facilitate connections between fair trade producers and those who buy their products. They do this by developing sustainable trade relationships with artisans in East Africa, telling their stories, and creating a high-quality and fashionable line of fair trade jewelry, clothing, accessories, and home decor for you to enjoy!
five ACCESSORIES
www.fiveACCESSORIES.com
five ACCESSORIES is a social enterprise offering handbags, jewelry and picture frames from five global locations: Cambodia, Bali, Chicago, India and Honduras. Our mission is to empower and create sustainable livelihoods for workers and their communities through the sale of eco-friendly and fair-traded, locally made products.
Friends of Fabretto
www.fabretto.org
La Familia Padre Fabretto, a Nicaraguan non-profit, nurtures a women’s cooperative producing colorful pine needle baskets, a carpentry shop producing Christmas themed puzzles, plaques and gifts, and a coffee cooperative producing Fair Trade, shade grown, organic coffee from Nicaragua.
The Giving Tee
Partnering with Women for Women International while celebrating and supporting women everywhere, that’s The Giving Tee. They produce a line of specialty T-shirts that are uniquely designed, understated, and classic. Their products are all about “simple truth” phrases that celebrate who we are as women and unite us in a common goal to better the lives of women survivors of war, and extreme abuse.
Global Handmade Hope
www.globalhandmadehope.com
Global Handmade Hope began in 2009 after a mission trip to Rwanda to help widows of the Genocide build a self-sustainable bakery and yarn project. Their mission is to spiritually uplift communities throughout the world. They work with humanitarian missions, and are committed to helping those less fortunate provide food and shelter for their families by offering them a place and opportunity to sell their goods. They strive to offer hope and help all find the path that will lead them to God.
¡Gracias!
Susanne and Vincent Donoghue started a small fair trade business in the summer of 2009 seeking to expand the market for marginalized producers in developing countries. They want to provide opportunities for these families to realize their hopes for improved education, health, and welfare.
Green Grocer
www.greengrocerchicago.com
Green Grocer Chicago features local and organic foods and other items. They firmly believe in buying from vendors who share their beliefs in taking care of the body, community, and the environment through their food choices.
Greenheart Shop
www.greenheartshop.org
Greenheart is a non-profit Fair Trade store selling a wide variety of items including home decor, kitchen wares, clothing, jewelry, kids toys, and more! Their store sells products that support fair wages and provides respectful livelihoods for workers around the world. They give consumers the ability to stand in solidarity with workers, and support sustainable environmental practices through their shopping choices.
Greenola
www.greenolastyle.com
Greenola is committed to Fair Trade: a justice centered business model providing a living wage for producers, safe and empowering working conditions, and environmentally friendly practices. They empower their producers in the Third World to lift themselves out of poverty, invest in their communities, protect the environment, and develop skills necessary to compete in a global environment.
Indigenous Artworks
Indigenous Artworks has been working with silversmiths, tailors, and artists from Guatemala, Bali, and Java for 10 years. We are committed to honoring these talented artists with respect and dignity by paying fair wages, having good work environments, and supporting the artists, their families & communities.
Interfaith Worker Justice
www.iwj.org
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) is the leading national interfaith organization promoting the rights of workers, especially those in low-wage jobs. It creates partnerships between workers, religious leaders, attorneys, and government agencies that protect worker rights. More recently, IWJ has been at the forefront of a national campaign to end wage theft.
Irv & Shelly’s Fresh Picks
www.FreshPicks.com
Irv & Shelly’s Fresh Picks offers year-round home delivery in the Chicago area of local and organic produce, meat, dairy, eggs, baked goods, and more. They partner with sustainable farmers to grow fair trade and local food in a way that protects our health and the environment. Food is obtained from farms in close proximity to Chicago to keep food miles and greenhouse gases down while ensuring the quality of fresh and nutritious products.
LEED: Local Economics and Employment
The Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Council markets energy-wise, weatherization, solar and general home improvement services through our Green LEEDers program. We are growing this City-funded transitional jobs program into a social enterprise.
Malia Designs
www.maliadesigns.com
Malia Designs was formed to increase economic opportunity for women in developing countries, and to support local and international non-profit organizations that fight human trafficking in Southeast Asia. Their products are made by non-profit organizations that employ disadvantaged people in developing countries as well as small family producers. By bringing their crafts to Western markets, they can expand their access to sustainable income.
Mata Traders
www.matatraders.com
Mata Traders believe giving women economic power and viable working skills can transform a community (and so the world) and that this is the surest way to combat poverty. That’s why all their fair trade clothing and accessories are handmade in India and Nepal by women’s cooperatives offering livable wages, good working conditions, literacy, and wellness programs.
MayaWorks
www.mayaworks.org
MayaWorks promotes economic development for Maya women and their families by supporting a marketplace for their handcrafted goods, such as beaded jewelry, handwoven bags, home goods, baby, and children’s products. As a member of the Fair Trade Federation, MayaWorks pays artisans at prices they set, provides technical assistance, and educational opportunities to women who otherwise have limited ways to participate or contribute to the economic stability of their families.
Mother Butters Popcorn
www.motherbutterspopcorn.com
Mother Butter’s Popcorn and Confectionary uses local family farms and natural ingredients whenever possible in our products. Our company is located in the Bronzeville area of Chicago and we are invested in helping promote a stronger, local community and economy.
New Moms/DBA Bright Endeavors
www.brightendeavors.org
Bright Endeavors, a social enterprise of New Moms, Inc., is a non-profit, enterprise and outreach program that utilizes renewable, green resources to create job opportunities for homeless and at-risk young women. Through the production of Dreambean Candles, we use renewable resources to create renewed spirits.
All crafted by hand, using recycled and natural
resources; the Dreambean Candle line by Bright Endeavors offers products that are gentle to the environment and help young women affected by poverty transform their lives.
Pure Eden Spa
www.pureedenspaproducts.com
Pure Eden Spa Products (PESP) slogan is “Empowering Hope Through Natural Soap,” but our mission is to “Empower women economically and teach employment skills that will help them determine their own economic direction.” PESP focuses on women who are homeless, non-violent ex-offenders seeking a second chance, and women recently immigrated who are at or around poverty level.
Soko Rafiki
www.sokorafiki.com
Soko Rafiki is a fair trade company that brings the African market to local communities, connecting consumers to the work of artisans from Southern, East and West Africa. They work with Global Alliance for Africa to provide an outlet for groups who are engaging in micro-enterprise to benefit orphans and vulnerable children. They also provide small grants to women’s groups to expand their production and support therapeutic arts programs for East African children.
Sweet Beginnings
www.beelinestore.com
Sweet Beginnings, LLC, is a social enterprise employing men and women to make all-natural skin care products infused with their own raw, Chicago urban honey. They work to increase the potential of the West Sde community and beyond by providing a framework of personal and team support to individuals who struggle with barriers to employment.
Sweet Miss Giving’s
sweetmissgiving.com
Sweet Miss Giving’s is Chicago House’s social enterprise bakery and jobs training program that offers delectable baked goods while providing a reason to feel good about sweet indulgences. One hundred percent of Sweet Miss Giving’s proceeds benefit the formerly homeless and HIV/AIDS-impacted men, women, and children of Chicago House.
Ten Thousand Villages
www.evanston.tenthousandvillages.com
Out Mission: To create opportunities for artisans in developing countries to earn income by bringing their products and stories to our markets through long-term fair trading relationships. Artisans are better able to improve their homes, educate themselves and their children, and put food on the table. Artisans’ work also improves the economic vitality of their communities. By encouraging artisan partners to use environmentally friendly processes, sustainable natural resources and recycled materials, we support fair trade practices that are good for people and good for the Earth. Ten Thousand Villages has three Chicago-area locations, in Evanston, Oak Park, and Glen Ellyn.
World Shoppe
www.World-Shoppe.com
World Shoppe was born to help women in developing countries have a stronger voice and rights within their families and communities. By providing them with employment opportunities, they are able to send their children to school, feed their families, and contribute to the economic development of their communities. As part of their mission to support young girls and education, they have begun a scholarship program for two girls and four computers for a school in the Western Cape.
