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Gift Fair Offers Chance for Socially Aware Shopping - December 04, 2007
WILLIAMSTOWN - The Williams College Students for Social Justice group will holds its 4th annual Alternative Gift Fair in the Sanctuary of First Congregational Church on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 1 to 7 p.m.
The event is concurrent with the Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity Christmas Tree Showcase, held in the church's Fellowship Hall, during the annual Williamstown Holiday Walk festivities.
The fair is an opportunity to shop for socially responsible holiday gifts from local, regional and national fair trade and non-profit organizations. Products will include handcrafts from around the world, local food products, and charitable and environmental gifts. Most proceeds support various non-profits, and the remainder go to environmentally and socially responsible businesses.
Some of the many vendors this year include: the Greylock Chapter of ABC, which will be selling note cards featuring color floral photography by Phil Smith; the Sudan Relief Task Force, selling bags of Sudanese Lentil soup mix; 10,000 Girls, selling Senegalese textile handcrafts; Chocosol, selling fresh, Mexican chocolate in a variety of flavors; Heifer Project International, selling donations of animals to families in developing countries; the Rural Literacy Project and Williamstown Rural Literacy Project, selling chocolate mint fudge; Thursday Night Group, selling green energy, CFLs, T-shirts, mugs and more; Wild Oats Co-op, selling local, fair trade and organic products; Cricket Creek Farm, selling local dairy products; the Bread Cooperative and Berkshire Food Project, selling bowls, mixes, candy, aprons, and the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, selling gift subscriptions, cards and calendars.
Maple syrup made from trees in the college’s Hopkins Forest, crafts from Nicaragua, crafts made by local American Indians, and handmade Peruvian belts will also be sold. In addition, the Students for Social Justice will be selling student-made crafts and holding a raffle.
The church is at 906 Main St. and is fully handicapped-accessible. Parking is available immediately behind the church off Chapin Hall Drive. For more information, contact the church Office at 413-458-4273 or fcc.willi@verizon.net.
Students for Social Justice is a student activist group whose main goal is to raise awareness on campus and in the community about different forms of social injustice in the United States and around the world while providing people with ideas of how they can work for peace, equality and understanding in their own lives.
The group conducts demonstrations on campus and organizes dinner discussions at which professors speak with students outside of class about social justice in their fields of expertise. They also hold annual events such as the Hunger Banquet and the fair, urging members of the community to appreciate their privilege and consider the responsibility they have to the rest of humanity.
For more information, contact 08zaf@williams.edu or 09jak@williams.edu |
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