BANGOR – Lori M. Wallach from Public Citizen of Washington, D.C., will be the keynote speaker at the second annual Fair Trade Fest, to be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Bangor Waterfront Park. Wallach’s appearance is scheduled for 1:45 p.m.

The Fair Trade Fest, a celebration of Bangor’s leadership in creating an active and aware market for sweatshop-free clothes and other fair-trade products, is organized by Peace through Interamerican Community Action.

An array of sweatshop-free products, food and coffee, music, educational exhibits, presentations and a Clean Clothes fashion show with celebrity models will greet fair visitors. New York’s Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir headlines the festival’s musical offerings.

Lori Wallach is the director of Global Trade Watch, a division of Public Citizen, a nonprofit citizen research, organizing and lobbying group. Wallach launched Global Trade Watch in 1995.

Wallach has represented the progressive critique of corporate globalization before Congressional committees, foreign parliaments, government agencies, national and international conferences and debates and in frequent media appearances. Her latest book is “Whose Trade Organization? A comprehensive Guide to the WTO.”

Recently, Wallach was a key lobbyist against the Central America Free Trade Agreement. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.

The Fair Trade Fest is free and open to the public and has been made possible by a grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation. For information visit www.pica.ws.