Showing posts with label Cafepress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cafepress. Show all posts

6/06/2008

UCTP Opens Online Taino Shop



UCTP Taino News - The United Confederation of Taino People has created an online “Taino Shop” hosted at CafePress.com. The new virtual store located at http://www.cafepress.com/tainoshop features a number of high-quality products displaying unique United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP) graphics. Confederation representative Roberto Borrero notes that the “the new Taino Shop is an excellent opportunity to contribute directly to the precedent-setting work of the UCTP.” Proceeds from sales directly benefit the organization.

“There is no doubt that the UCTP has been pioneering the use of Information and Communications Technology to increase the visibility of Taino and other Caribbean Indigenous Peoples” continued Borrero. “Online sales - indigenous entrepreneurship -
are just another part of Nation building.”

Orders can be conducted online or by phone toll-free at 1-877-809-1659 and merchandise is backed by a 100% money back guarantee. The product line at the Taino Shop focuses on the UCTP logo, which represents a unified Taino Nation reaching out in solidarity across the waters to relatives in all the sacred directions.

7/12/2007

Taino Artists Open Online Store

(UCTP Taino News) - Two talented Taino artists, John “Aguilar” Marrero (Boriken) and Reina Miranda (Kiskeia) have announced the opening of an online store, which will feature their Taino themed art-works. Their online store is entitled ‘Taino Spirit’ and is hosted at the Cafépress website at http://www.cafepress.com/aguilar .

Miranda and Marrero both currently have selected works on display along with other indigenous artists from around the world at a special exhibition being held at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Sponsored by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the Indigenous Peoples Exhibition is scheduled to close August 10, 2007.

In photo from left to right are Reina Miranda,
Roberto Mucaro Borrero, Mainaku Borrero, Mildred Gandia Reyes,
and Aguilar Marrero at the United Nations, May 16, 2007