Washington Fair Trade Coalition

This past Saturday, we came together in a PNW Cross-Border Day of Solidarity For a Peoples’ Trade Agenda! Thank you to our incredible PNW community that made this event so joyous and powerful. When we come together across borders and across issues and stand in solidarity, we all collectively strengthen our movements. Long live international solidarity!

Huge thank you to our organizational endorsers, our volunteers, our speakers, and to all the incredible organizers who made this event such a successful show of people power!

Peacekeeping training this Saturday, May 23rd in Shoreline and Bellingham!

Interested in learning tools to de-escalate and further build solidarity? Join us this Saturday in Shoreline or Bellingham for a peacekeeper/care bear training. To sign up, use the May 30 RSVP form and select the “peacekeeping” volunteer box. tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP

Seattle Area
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Shoreline

Bellingham Area
3:00-5:00 pm
Bellingham (downtown)

Some of the incredible posters and art made at our PNW Day of Solidarity sign-making event yesterday!

May 30th is right around the corner, have you RSVP’d yet? And don’t forget to sign up to volunteer! Tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP.

Please refer to our previous post for more information on volunteering and peacekeeping training.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!! There are many ways to get involved in the PNW Cross-Border Day of Solidarity on May 30th!

Interested in peacekeeping/care bear training? We are hosting two trainings on Saturday, May 23rd, to equip our community with tools to de-escalate. Shoreline from 11am-1pm and Downtown Bellingham from 3-5pm. RSVP as a Peacekeeper at tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP for more info.

We're also looking for folks to help with set-up, break-down, documentation, and more! Sign up to volunteer at tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP

Many hands make light work!

Yesterday evening, we convened in Bellingham for the last in our series of Trade Justice 101 events. Organizers and community members discussed the intersections of workers' rights, human rights, tech justice, militarism, farmworkers' rights, and more!

We're looking forward to continuing these conversations and celebrating cross-border and cross-issue solidarity on Saturday, May 30th, at Peace Arch Park. RSVP at tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP

This past Tuesday, we convened our second Trade Justice 101 event at the Washington State Labor Council office in Seattle! We held space for important conversations about the intersections of workers’ rights, migrant defense, militarism, cross-border solidarity, and trade justice.

We’ll be hosting our last Trade 101 in Bellingham next Wednesday, May 13th at 6pm! tinyurl.com/Trade101Bellingham

And join us on May 30 at the border for our PNW Cross-Border Day of Solidarity for a celebration of community! tinyurl.com/SolidarityDaysRSVP

Join us on Saturday, May 30th, at 12:00 PM at Peace Arch Historical Park for a powerful show of cross-border solidarity and community power! tinyurl.com/solidaritydaysRSVP

Communities across North America are coming together for to challenge rigged trade rules and demand that governments put people and the planet ahead of corporate greed in the USMCA talks.

We’ll be coming together on the border to celebrate community in solidarity with food, music, and speakers!

This May Day, WFTC highlighted the importance of cross-border solidarity in the fight for workers' and migrant rights!
Join us tomorrow, May 5th at the WSLC office in Seattle to learn more! tinyurl.com/trade101Seattle

Bellingham is our last stop in our Trade Justice 101 series!

Come learn how communities across Washington are impacted by rigged trade policy, and how we are coming together in solidarity to demand a People's Trade Agenda.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 13
WHERE: Community to Community, 1319 Cornwall

RSVP now! tinyurl.com/trade101bellingham
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