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Whole Foods' coffee brand, Allegro, isn't fair trade certified. When one approaches the coffee counter in different Whole Foods stores asking if their coffee is fair trade, employees are eerily identical in the answer they provide: their coffee is grown sustainably and fairly *just like* fair trade coffee, and doesn't need the label. I find this canned spiel pretty sketchy of Whole Foods and thought many others would too, but am finding many people buy it, and don't realize it's important to look for the fair trade logo. Now (partly to settle an argument in my house) I'm trying to figure out what exactly Whole Foods/Allegro is/isn't doing re conditions on its coffee farms or in its buying practices that keep it from that fair trade certification.

Is there any US gov't funding involved in supporting the police forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan? We've all seen the US-funded riot police beating up democracy/islamist protesters in Egypt...

I have a question regarding international copyright laws that I'm hoping you can help me with.

I'm an American living in South Korea, and I have another American friend here who has an English blog that was translated and quoted without her permission in a Korean newspaper. The article includes her full name. Not only was the translation inaccurate, but she also never spoke to the person who wrote the article and quoted her. Is this legal in Korea? Thanks for any help you can give me.

My question is this: Can you point me to a list of significant (especially book-length) works on (a) anarchism and law, and (b) anarchism and psychology? I've written several short things on aspects of this, and am looking to see what I might have missed that might tie the whole thing up more systematically.

I am an unemployed ph.d. (cinema studies) seeking extra-academic work, preferably in a progressive think tank or research institute. Is there a list or guide to such places that includes contact infor

Where would be some good published and archival sources to research women printers of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the New York City area? I am particularly interested in the labor history of women in printing in the New York City area.

I read something in Emerson years ago and now can't find the reference. He discusses the dilemma of youth deciding on a career where the world is morally tainted by global division of labor linking work to slavery, evil, etc.

any studies showing how social justice activism esp, or just activism and volunteerism, improve scores of mental health such as depression anxiety etc compared to general population or people who don'

Hello, would you please help me find news/magazine sites (not advocacy groups) that focus on women's issues that relate to economic justice? Thanks so much!

Where can I find if there has been a study on the effects of Monsanto's hormones, used on cows to produce milk, on humans?