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SUMMARY:Black Gold Screening & Fair Trade Student Panel
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DESCRIPTION:Learn what students have done at UVM to get more fair trad
 e products on campus and how you can get involved next year!\n\nFollow
 ed by a panel discussion about the film and upcoming classes about cof
 fee at UVM!\nErnesto Mendez - Plant and Soil Science\nEnvironmental St
 udies\nMichael Moser - Center for Rural Studies\nCDAE\nJeanne Fossani 
 - Plant and Soil Science\n\nABOUT THE MOVIE\:\n\nMultinational coffee 
 companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate th
 e industry worth over $80 billion\, making coffee the most valuable tr
 ading commodity in the world after oil.\n\nBut while we continue to pa
 y for our lattes and cappuccinos\, the price paid to coffee farmers re
 mains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields
 .\n\nNowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia\, the birth
 place of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 7
 4\,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers striv
 e to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the internati
 onal market\, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers w
 illing to pay a fair price.\n\nAgainst the backdrop of Tadesse's journ
 ey to London and Seattle\, the enormous power of the multinational pla
 yers that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York
  commodity traders\, the international coffee exchanges\, and the doub
 le dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal 
 the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solutio
 n for his farmers. the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one ma
 n on a mission to save his 74\,000 struggling coffee farmers from bank
 ruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality c
 offee beans on the international market\, Tadesse travels the world in
  an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.
LOCATION:CC Theatre in Billings Student Center

05405 Burlington\, VT
CATEGORIES:O,t,h,e,r
CONTACT:Helaine Alon\, fairtradeuvm@gmail.com
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