Disturbing Report on Chinese Production Methods

This news item from the LA Times: Stifling in Jade Dust has been posted on several lampwork forums and deserves your attention. Those of us who are in the jewelry industry, as independent self-representing artists, have been touched deeply and directly by these issues. Many of us have, in the past, unwittingly purchased these products. Many of us now are changing our buying habits to support fair trade practices that will not support the companies who practice such woeful disregard for their workers' health and well-being.
Please help us to support the fair trade movement and add your voice to this welling tidal wave of outrage against these practices. Here are a few links:

> The Fair Trade Federation
> Co-Op America
> Make Trade Fair (On-line petition)

Thank you from my heart if you decide to help.