Thanks to everyone that entered our Connect with Fair Trade Video Contest! There were a lot of great results, but we had to narrow it down to five finalists. Vote now on who wins the trip to visit Fair Trade farmers in Peru!

There's no better time to reflect on how our purchases affect the world than the holiday season, so make your holiday a Fair Trade holiday! Bring your friends and family together to learn about Fair Trade, or make Fair Trade a part of your holiday party. We will include a DVD of Buyer Be Fair: the Promise of Product Certification with every order of our free Fair Trade event kit () through the holiday season. Click here (link) for fun Fair Trade holiday ideas.

The internet is quickly becoming an essential tool for organizing social movements, including Fair Trade! Join TransFair USA's growing online communities on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Change.org. This allows us to coordinate our actions and be more effective in spreading awareness of Fair Trade.

EQ.TV team is a diverse group of professionals with backgrounds in media-production, internet development, and sustainable business. They have established an internet channel to showcase original content and the work of others at www.eq.tv, and have launched a social network http://connect.eq.tv where companies, organizations, and individuals are creating profiles and discussing issues like Fair Trade. If you haven't yet seen the informative piece that EQ.TV produced for TransFair USA, Fair Trade: The Story, check it out now!

Spread the goodwill and holiday cheer with a Fair Trade advent calendar from Divine Chocolate USA, which is co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa cooperative in Ghana. The calendar includes Fair Trade chocolate hearts behind a nativity scene and the story of Divine Chocolate on the back. This is another great way to have a Fair Trade holiday season!

October saw the successful launch of the national Fair Trade Towns campaign. It also proved an ideal occasion for the launch of two new Fair Trade Towns. This October, Milwaukee, WI became the third town to declare and the first large city. On November 7th, Amherst, MA became the fourth Fair Trade Town and the first in Massachusetts. Congratulations Milwaukee and Amherst! Visit www.FairTradeTownsUSA.org to learn how to make your town a Fair Trade Town.

Kuapa Kokoo is a cocoa producer cooperative founded in Ghana in 1993. It represents a unique empowerment effort that enables small cocoa farmers to have a voice in government and attain more information regarding their dealings with cocoa buyers. Kuapa Kokoo has been Fair Trade certified by Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) since 2002, and owns 45% of Divine Chocolate, which sells Fair Trade Certified chocolates in the UK and US. This unique venture not only allows Kuapa Kokoo's members to receive a fair price for their cocoa, but they share in the companies profits as well. Kuapa Kokoo's motto is "papapaa," which means "the best of the best!"

The results of the National Coffee Association's National Coffee Drinking Trends survey are in and they show that awareness of Fair Trade Certified continues to grow! Consumer Awareness of Fair Trade is at 27% in 2007. In 2003, only 7% of consumers were aware of Fair Trade. That means awareness has almost quadrupled in four years!