Café à la Green: Political Organizations

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Political Organizations:

  • Green Party of the United States Merchandise – Union made t-shirts, organick cotton, made in USA; peace pennants, bumper stickers, buttons, and car magnets.
  • True Majority – BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK TO OWN THESE MARVELOUS, FANTASTIC, AND MIRACULOUS TRUEMAJORITY GOODIES. They delight and amuse while helping you change the world. And all purchases support the TrueMajority campaign. Many of our fabulous TrueMajority tchotchke’s have been designed by internationally acclaimed and award winning designer Stefan Sagmeister.

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    Café à la Green: of Peace and Justice/Social Justice Organizations

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    Online Stores of Peace and Justice/Social Justice Organizations:

  • California Peace Action – offering cards for International Human Rights Day: The Forgotten Holiday, Saturday, December 10.
  • Oxfam – 50 Unusual Gifts for Christmas
  • A Greater Gift – a program of SERRV International, a nonprofit alternative trade and development organization. Their mission is to promote the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by marketing their products in a just and direct manner. Their goal is to alleviate poverty and empower low-income people through trade, training and other forms of community support as they work to improve their lives.
  • Giving Twice
    Thoughtful gifts that benefit charities, education, and research     – Fair Trade Peace Candles, scarfs, handbags and accessories, calendars and more.

    Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – books, publications and apparel. All proceeds from the sale of these items will be used to expand the Foundation’s work for peace and a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

  • War Resisters League Peace Calendar – Peace-Loving Nations:
    Music of Peace and Resistance – A songbook and music sampler, the War Resisters League 2006 Peace Calendar, brings you lyrics and music from around the world representing an integral part of the struggle against war and its underlying causes — racism, sexism, poverty, capitalism, and class.
  • War Resisters League Bookstore – Choose from B O O K S on:
    – Pacifism & Nonviolent Action
    – For Young People
    – Disarmament & Alternative Defense
    – Counter-Recruitment & Conscientious Objection
    – Gandhi
    – Feminism & Nonviolence
    – History
    – International
    – Organizing Materials
    – Peace & Troublemakers
    – Martin Luther King
    – Raising Children
    – Socialism & Anarchism
    – Prisons & Capital Punishment

    From Union Voice
    Union-made-in-the-USA gifts and stocking stuffers from The Union Shop.
    You can speak out this holiday with gifts that show where you stand. Like our Rosie the Riveter long-sleeve T-shirt
    Or how about buttons for stocking stuffers
    There’s something for everyone on your list at The Union Shop Online–the AFL-CIO’s retail store for activists.

    Union kids love The Union Shop, too! Books, shirts, puzzles and much more: Find the perfect gift for that special child in The Union Shop!
    Visit The Union Shop

  • Buy Nothing Christmas – a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites but open to everyone with a thirst for change and a desire for action.Buy Nothing Christmas is a stress-reliever, and more people need to hear about it. You can change your world by simply putting up one of the posters (or make your own) in your church, place of worship, home or work. Be sneaky about it if you have to. The point is to get people thinking. It’s an idea whose time has come, so get out there and make a difference!
  • The Alternative Christmas List the charitable gift list with choice, contains a variety of gifts to a selection of charities enabling family and friends to make donations that change lives.
        

  • Earthjustice Logo

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    Café à la Green: Alternative Gift Giving Ideas

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    Alternative Gift Giving Ideas

    Looking for that perfect holiday gift? Look no further! Donate a few hours to the Green Party of Utah! The GPUT needs volunteers to help gather the final batch of signatures needed to its ballot access petition drive. A mass signature gathering event is being planned (tentatively) for Saturday, December 17 in Salt Lake. Details are forthcoming, but if you would like to help, please contact GPUT Petition Drive or 801-502-8556.

    Jen’s Green Journal – Jen’s ideas on holiday gift giving
    Dee’s ‘Dotes
    Great Green Goods – a shopping blog for the earth friendly consumer. Researches and promotes eco-friendly products for the green consumer from all over.
    Eco Street – Green Christmas Guide
    The Green Guide – “green living source for today’s conscious consumer”

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    Café à la Green: Re-Using and Recycling

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    Re-using and Recycling:

  • Utah Bulletin Board – a community board for the community to use to connect with others in the community and share information.
  • Salt Lake Freecycle – A network dedicated to reducing waste by connecting individuals who are throwing away goods with others who are seeking them.
  • Utah Yard Sale – for yard sale lovers who are seeking used items or have used items to sell.

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    Café à la Green: Individuals

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    Individuals:

  • Sunflower Spot – `Everything about sunflowers, the universal symbol of hope, peace, and nuclear abolition. Original photographs, natural skin care products, and other items.
  • Blue Sky Originals – Handmade items – using primarily fibers and fabrics that are natural and/or obtained from thrift stores, yard sales, or trade.

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    Café à la Green: Animals and Pets

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    Animals and Pets:

  • Ching Farm Rescue and Sanctuary – filling a need in the Salt Lake area by advocating for farm animals through rescue, education, and adoption and placement services.
  • Utah Animal Rights Coalition – adoption center provides resources for adopting pets.

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    Café à la Green: Restaurants

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    Restaurants (great for gift certificates):

  • Sage’s Café – committed to providing the freshest and healthiest cuisine possible, without compromising. Sage’s philosophy is that producing pure vegetarian foods will demonstrate compassion for earth.
  • One World Café – Fair Price for a meal – the customer decides. One World Café’s concept is that you pay for what you think the meal is worth, ensuring that everyone, regardless of his or her ability to pay, can still eat.

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    Café à la Green: Educational

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    Educational:

  • Blue Sky Institute – Nurturing Education for the Advancement of the Welfare of the Human Race – Make a monetary donation or gift from the BSI wish list to support the projects designed to help the community.
  • City Academy – Make a contribution to this progressive public charter school. City Academy is committed to providing personalized experience-based education in a diverse, democratic learning environment that empowers students to live responsible,fulfilling, and successful lives. City Academy is dedicated to catalyzing educational reform.

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    Café à la Green: Online Stores ofUtah Orgnaizations

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    Online Stores of Local Organizations- peace, justice and political:

  • People for Peace and Justice of Utah – lawn signs, bumper stickers and peace pins
  • Cafe Press store of Shundahai Network – a non-profit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with indigenous communities and environmental, peace and human rights movements.
  • Utah Jobs With Justice – a network of local coalitions that connect labor, faith based, community and student organizations to work together on workplace and community social justice campaigns. Make an online donation to help keep Jobs with Justice Active.
  • Green Cafe – Green Party of Utah’s online cafe of cool green stuff.

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    Café à la Green: Socially Responsible and Environmentally Friendly Gift Ideas – Utah

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    Locally (Utah):

    Blue Sky Alternatives – A service which promotes socially conscious businesses, organizations, and individuals which advocate socially and environmentally responsible philosophies.

    Businesses:

  • Free Speech Zone – A Salt Lake Retail Shop – something for every activist. Home of everyone’s favorite FleecyFeet.
  • Ten Thousand Villages – Fair trade home décor and gifts – provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.
  • Turyias- 1100 East 1569 South, Salt Lake City – all types of small gifts imaginable ; most are hand done by local artists. There are all types of jewelry , loose gems, wind chimes,wall hangings, leather journals, cards , tarot cards , incense , books…..this place is loaded wall to wall !
  • Traces – 1100 East 1442 South – grows all natural herbs and veggies also a great gift shop and does fresh flowers and potted plants.
  • Liberty Heights Fresh -1100 East 1300 South – fresh food and cut flowers also a has a small restaurant.

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