The University of Houston Students for Fair Trade (UHSFT) are hitting the H-town airwaves and newspaper stands after winning one of two awards for best issue campaign of the year at the 2009 Campus Progress National Conference.

The group was featured in today’s edition of the Daily Cougar, and you can hear them live tonight at 7:30-8 PM CST on the Houston Independent Media show on KPFT 90.1 between 7:30 and 8:00 pm. Non-Houstonites can stream it at http://kpft.org/.

We recently posted about some of  UHSFT’s major victories here, and you can find out more information about the group at their website. Here is what we said about UHSFT:

While the University of Houston is traditionally a sleepy commuter campus with little political dialogue, UH Students for Fair Trade is working tirelessly to change this. They have received a Campus Progress Action Grant for several years now, and through their efforts, they have convinced the university to make the main coffee shop on campus 100% fair trade. They have helped to make fair trade coffee available in all dining halls, and educational literature about fair trade certified products in every coffee outlet on campus. When they reach an impasse in their negotiations with the administration, they utilize creative—and occasionally confrontational—tactics to draw attention to their cause and pressure decision makers to do the right thing. This fall they will be working with the Student Farmworker Alliance to make sure that campus food outlets are paying a fair wage to farm workers.

Quick note – The Daily Cougar article contained a small error, five coffee outlets at the University of Houston are now fair trade, not all of the outlets.