THE CITY CIRCLE

 

In two months, we will be enjoying the holy month of Ramadhan.  This year, you can make your reward even greater by opening your fast with mouth-watering Medjoul dates from Palestine.  The dates arrive in the UK as part of the great work done by Zaytoun, a UK-based company that imports Palestinian produce and generates a source of revenue that farmers need desperately.

In this talk, the speaker will discuss the difficult lives of Palestinian farmers and the competition they face from Israeli products.  The speaker will elaborate on how Zaytoun’s work supports farmers and their families through fair trade.  The talk will shed a light on the legality of produce from illegal settlements.

Palestinian produce will be available to buy.

 

Atif Choudhury is one of the founders of the UK chapter of the International Solidarity Movement and is a Trustee of War on Want, the poverty relief NGO.  Atif has an MSc in Conflict and Development from SOAS and over the past 10 years has organised a number of delegations of students, trade unionists, medical practitioners and activists to visit occupied Palestine.  He has been instrumental in building networks of sustainable solidarity with Palestinian communities and a direct action culture around Palestinian human rights in the UK.

Atif co-founded Zaytoun Olive Oil Co-operative in 2004, enabling farmers throughout the West Bank to trade past Israel’s apartheid wall.  In 2009 Zaytoun’s work resulted in Palestinian olive oil and olives achieving the world’s first Fairtrade certification.  As a Director of Zaytoun CIC he has helped to create the UK’s first Palestinian trade initiative and market for fairly traded Palestinian produce. 

 

 

Free entrance. All welcome.  

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