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The seeds of Fair Trade Town Membership began in a Human Rights class of Professor Judith Blau at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the Spring semester 2010. As an advocate for human rights locally and globally, Professor Blau had already founded the Center for Human Rights to address housing concerns and living wage issues within the migrant community in Chapel Hill and surrounding areas. Her class devoted the spring semester to Fair Trade with the end project of passing a resolution through the Town Council declaring Chapel Hill a fair trade town. Her class canvased the businesses and collected petition signatures from students. On June 21st, after being delayed by the town, the council accepted the proposal declaring Chapel Hill a Fair Trade Town. The students dispersed and now the task was left to the businesses of Chapel Hill to form a working committee and begin organizing events to build awareness and support within the Chapel Hill community.