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| As
we gather around the harvest table with our
families and friends this Thanksgiving, we're
particularly grateful that we're succeeding in our
two-pronged mission -- providing great-tasting
coffee to our customers and promoting a model of
self-reliance and economic justice for the
hard-working farmers in the coffee lands. Of
course, we're a little bummed that the weather's
turning colder and winter is on its way, but we
know that biking season will return again (as will
the smiles on our faces). In the meantime, we'll
just kick back and enjoy a steaming cup of Peace
Coffee!
In
this month's issue of Fair Grounds, we offer an
insightful article on the Free Trade Area of the
Americas, along with a recap of the Dia de los
Muertos event, a recipe, a new trivia question and
a new Peace Gear product (buy now and avoid the
holiday rush!).
So
read on and enjoy…
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by Lori
Wallach - director
of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
This
week, when trade ministers gather in Miami for a Free
Trade Area of the Americas summit, they will be greeted by
thousands of protestors. FTAA negotiations have been
quietly underway since 1995 with a December 2004 target
deadline. The Miami summit is a deciding moment--as
awareness about FTAA has grown, so has opposition.
The
draft FTAA text contains hundreds of pages of rules to
which every country would be required to conform its
national, state and local policies--regardless of whether
voters and their democratically-elected representatives
had previously rejected the same.
FTAA
is a proposal to extend NAFTA to 31 Latin American and
Caribbean nations. If you liked NAFTA, you will love FTAA.
It is NAFTA on steroids.
When
NAFTA was being negotiated and debated in the early 1990s,
it was sold as the only path to bring Mexico's standard of
living closer to that of its northern neighbors.
more...
Lori
Wallach
is director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade
Watch. This article first appeared on TomPaine.com,
an online public interest journal (www.tompaine.com)
Read
more on the harmful effects of the FTAA on workers,
farmers and the environment from Ali Tonak, writing for WireTap,
an independent information source for socially conscious
youth:
http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=17210
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Led by members of the dance group Quetzalcoatlicue
Danza Mexica-Azteca, the Day of the Dead
procession brought out more than 150 people for a
powerful and illuminating walk. The altars set up
along the Midtown Greenway were beautiful and
brightly lit and participants took turns lighting
candles along the way in honor of their loved
ones. The photos of the women of Ciudad Juarez
were carried along the march by individuals and
were pasted visibly on many of the larger puppets.
The event furthered people’s awareness of the
situation for women on the border. The procession
ended with warm drinks and food from local
restaurants. The event was an amazing
collaboration of organizations, talented artists
and community members committed to awareness, art
and activism on the Greenway. Peace Coffee and the
artists want this event to happen
again next year and hope that more and more people
will take part. Lastly, we hope that people will
continue to put pressure on both Mexican President
Vicente Fox to increase investigation efforts and
the U.S. Congress to ask the Mexican authorities to
resolve these crimes. Check out photos from the
event--click here!
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In
the larger world community, Guatemala's former
military dictator Efrain Rios Montt lost his bid
to secure power on Monday as Guatemalans voted in
huge numbers to throw out his corruption-tainted
ruling party. Conservative businessman and
landowner Oscar Berger had 38% of the vote with
leftist politician Alvaro Colom in second place
with 28% percent. The two men will go to a run-off
vote next month because Berger fell short of an
outright majority. Read more about it here:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=topNews&storyID=3791601
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Like
magic, this soap removes the smell of garlic &
onion from your hands. Moisturizing cocoa butter
mingles with exfoliating ground coffee to leave
your skin clean, soft, & stink-free. And
it’s made with organic, fair-trade cocoa &
Peace Coffee. It's as good for your conscience as
it is for your skin.
Handcrafted
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Soap
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Ingredients:
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cocoa butter, fair trade organic coffee, fair
trade organic cocoa, & tocopherol (vitamin E
oil).
Buy
yours today -- click
here!
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| We're
giving away coffee!
Think
you know a lot about coffee? Then enter our Fair
Grounds Trivia Contest. Click
here for our question of the month. Entering is easy
and it's FUN!
Last
month we asked, "If your coffee tastes bitter it is probably due to the following:..."
We gave you three possible answers. Many of you gave us a
fourth answer that our judges deemed as absolutely correct!
If your coffee tastes bitter it is probably due to the fact that
you didn't start with Peace Coffee!
We
love all of your creativity and our Coffee
Knowledge winner is Amy DeStefano. Congratulations,
Amy!
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"Proponents
of the FTAA boast that it will be the most
far-reaching trade agreement in history. Give them
an "A" for honesty. But give them an
"F" for ignoring the potential costs of
such an agreement to our sense of citizenship, the
strength of our democracies, and the cultural and
social fabric of our societies."
--
Excerpt from Free Trade is Not Free by
David Morris, vice president of the Minneapolis
and Washington, D.C., based Institute for Local
Self Reliance (www.ilsr.org).
Published originally in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune December 16, 2002.
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