20 June 2009 - In this edition of The State We're In: a former leader of the student protests in Serbia advises Iranian protesters that they mustn't fight with the police if they want to win. We ask if Fair Trade really is fair, with stories from Ghana and Kenya. An Indian domestic worker talks about her fight for fair pay and a writer from Sarajevo tells us about food and fairness under siege.
 

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Fair Trade for whom? Kenyan woodcarver Dankan describes how Fair Trade has doubled his income and answered the prayers he and his family had. But filmmaker Steve Daley tells Jonathan how a trip to a Fair Trade cocoa plantation in Ghana convinced him that Fair Trade doesn’t better the lives of producers significantly and that all it really does is soothe the collective conscience of Western consumers.

Fighting for a fair wage in India: Jonathan speaks with a domestic worker in Bangalore, India who, after joining a new union, found the courage to fight for better wages, a day off and, in one case, the right to even use the toilet.

Fair wage triumph: When Argentinian Jose Luis Bethancourt came to the United States he got a well-paid job. When a new boss illegally cut his and his co-workers wages they sued - and won.  He tells Jonathan what other workers who are being paid unfairly can do to help themselves.

Food and fairness in war: Amela Marin Simic lived through the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. She tells Jonathan what she did to put food on the table for her family - like bartering with TV crews who wanted interviews - and how her conception of what constitutes fair costs for food changed forever after the war.