Democracy Center

BLACK GOLD: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Multinational companies have made coffee the second most traded commodity in the world. But as westerners revel in designer lattes, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. Tracing one man's fight for a fair price, Black Gold is an eye-opening expose of the eighty billion dollar coffee industry.

Guest Speakers:
Oxfam America's Coffee Team and Equal Exchange

Discussion will include, of course, free samples of socially conscious coffee!