About USFT and STJC

United Students for Fair Trade (USFT)

USFT is a collaboration of students and youth working in solidarity with cooperative communities to promote fair trade principles, products and policies. Consciousness raising, leadership development and capacity building stand at the core of our grassroots organizing. We have three main functions. First, we organize—we work to consolidate and coordinate the power of the over 150 active student Fair Trade organizations in the U.S. Second, through intensive international exchanges and skill-building conferences, we engage in leadership development and capacity building. Third, we serve as a resource to student affiliates looking for anything from strategic campaigning advice to internship opportunities.

Visit us online at http://www.usft.org

Student Trade Justice Campaign (STJC)

STJC is a student advocacy organization that continually engages in actions geared towards supporting positive, genuinely development-oriented and human rights-conscious international trade initiatives. We also seek to educate students and the public about the effects of the current international trading system on the world’s most marginalized and poorest peoples.

STJC fights Free Trade Agreements, corporate activity, and other issues that violate human rights and cripple the ability of developing countries to engage in real development. Given that a free market fundamentalist, neoliberal regime currently dominates the discussion on trade, there’s a lot to oppose. But STJC walks into opposition with both eyes open: to ensure our stances are consistent with the needs of the poor, we work with numerous partners in both the global South and North.

Visit us online at http://www.tradejusticecampaign.org