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All of the Peace Coffee crew wishes you a very happy holiday season! This is one of the busiest and happiest times of the year for us as we help our friends and neighbors make the season a bit brighter for their loved ones with a gift of Fair Trade coffee. If you’re thinking of gifting someone with Peace Coffee, check out our holiday shipping schedule below. Also in this issue, Andy introduces us to the Fair Trade Task Force at St. Kate’s, we catch up with a former Peace Coffee staffer
who ran a marathon in Dublin, Ireland and learn about the IATP’s delegation to Hong Kong for the upcoming WTO Ministerial. We’ve also got a Roaster’s Corner, Peace Coffee Pride winner, and a recipe for scrumptious double chocolate chip cookies. Read on and enjoy…
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Thank you for sharing Peace Coffee with your friends, family members and lovers this holiday season.
Orders placed on our website through Friday, December 16th, should arrive by Christmas by regular ground delivery. Please keep in mind that UPS cannot not guarantee ground delivery times during the month of December -- all delivery times are best estimates. For highly time-sensitive orders, we suggest that you invest in expedited shipping.
For express delivery options (faster but more expensive) the cut-offs are as follows:
10AM December 22nd
-- Next Day Air for delivery December 23rd
10AM December 21st
-- 2-Day Air for delivery December 23rd
10AM December 20th
-- 3-Day for delivery December 23rd
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| This holiday season Peace Coffee sent coffee and greetings to soldiers in Iraq. We thanked them for their incredible sacrifices and let them know that they are in our thoughts. We want them home safe ASAP! |
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by Andy Lambert
 The Fair Trade movement owes a lot to the thousands of high school and college students all over the world who commit hours and hours of their time outside of the classroom to educate their peers about fair trade. Locally, the Fair Trade Task Force at the College of St. Catherine (St. Kate’s) deserves major kudos for the hard work that they did on their campus in November to educate their peers about fair trade.
The Fair Trade Task Force is a sub-committee of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
(MPIRG) at St. Kate’s. There are currently nine college campuses in Minnesota that have MPIRG student groups. For 34 years, MPIRG has been a catalyst for progressive change in Minnesota. In 1973,
MPIRG, local unions, and the state AFL-CIO conducted a joint survey that resulted in a ban on the use of asbestos in new building construction
(www.mpirg.org). Their work for progressive social change has not stopped there.
more...
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 Cheers to Karen!
An interview with former Peace Coffee Employee Karen Townsend
What made you decide to run the Dublin, Ireland Marathon?
I had worked doing massage at the Twin Cities Marathon and I was very inspired by all the runners who ran. In the back of my head I thought I would like to do this, but it wasn’t until my friend
Dy, who works for a local youth mentoring program, Bolder Options, asked me to run the Dublin Marathon to raise money for her work that I thought, “yes, I can run
that!”
So we know you ran the marathon but what else have you been up to since you left Peace Coffee?
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 The Minnesota non-profit think tank, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), will send a delegation to Hong Kong next week to attend the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial. The delegation is organizing a Fair Trade Fair and Symposium and will lobby negotiators on agricultural trade rules.
IATP has been documenting the impacts of international trade rules on family farmers and rural communities in the U.S. and around the world for nearly 20 years. IATP staff have attended every WTO ministerial. IATP also has an office in Geneva, which reports on WTO negotiations to nongovernmental organizations around the world. IATP co-hosts an e-learning program on global trade literacy that trains stakeholders in poor countries on international trade agreements to promote sustainable development.
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 Jonathan and his son Oliver are this month’s winners in our Peace Coffee Pride contest. They posed in front of the Peace Coffee dispensers at the Newark, Delaware, Food Coop and we chose their photo! For their efforts, they win a pound of their favorite Peace
Coffee.
If you’d like to get in on this action, email your photo to
mel@peacecoffee.com
or mail it to Peace Coffee, Attention: Mel, at 2801 21st Ave. South, Suite 120, Minneapolis, MN 55407.
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“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.”
~ Babatunde Olatunji
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- November
2005 Hurricane Stan Causes Much Devastation by Jeronimo Bollen of Manos Campesinas, On the Road With Brad...Continued, Winter Biking Tips from Hub Bike Co-op, Show Your Peace Coffee Pride and Win!, Customer Spotlight: Peaceful Valley Greetings, Meet the Queen Bee (and Worker Bees) by Andy Lambert
- October
2005 Coop Coffees Meets in Guatemala by Tripp Pomeroy, Peace Coffee Bike Team Season Wrap-up by Ton Tran, Peace Coffee Bike Grinder, Catching Up With the Crew, Peace Gear: Spiffy Socks
- September
2005 Green Beans Lost in Katrina's Wake by Scott Patterson, The Revolution Will Not Be Motorized by Andy Lambert, The Joy of Stovetop Espresso Machines by Melanee
Meegan, The Wanderlust Returns By Brad the Intrepid Bean Pedaler
- August
2005 A New Buzz...Chain Saw Art, The Valley of the Giant Green Man by Andy Lambert, Peace Coffee Events and Demo Guy, The Annual Milk Carton Boat Race by Melanee
Meegan, Peace Coffee Marketing Manager
- July
2005 Pedal Power: Peace Coffee Bike Team, FT Futures: Living a Fair Trade Life, CAFTA Is Not Done: A Call to Action
- June
2005 Extraordinary Ethiopia by Melanee
Meegan, Peace Coffee Marketing & Advertising Coordinator, Peace Coffee's 2nd Annual Open House, Aceh Tsunami Relief Fund Update
PPKGO, ForesTrade and CV Trimaju, Batter Up! by Monika
Firl, Coop Coffees
- May
2005 Fair Trade in Seattle by Scott Patterson, Brad's Nicaragua Journal by Brad the Bike Messenger
- April
2005 Fair Trade Travels and Other Adventures, Nicaragua Trip Brings Fair Trade to Life by Anneka
Kmiecik, Birchwood Café,
Fair Trade in a Volatile Market by Bill Harris, Cooperative Coffees
- March
2005 Andy's Chiapas Journal (part two) by
Andy Lambert, Converging For Fair Trade
- February
2005 Update On The Aceh Fund, Return To Chiapas (part one) by Andy Lambert, In Praise Of Hot Chocolate
by Rachel Hiltsley
- January
2005 Tragedy's Wake: Update From Sumatra, How I Spent My Floating Holiday by Brad the Bike Messenger, A Coffee Science Experiment by Rachel
Hiltsley, Resident Equipment Expert
- December
2004 Great Coffee the French Press Way, The Best Coffee in Town,
Coffee+Beer=Friggin' Good. eh?
- November
2004 My Other Bike is a Biodiesel,
Biodiesel: It's What's Inside
- October
2004 A Peaceful Alternative to Petroleum,
Don't Just Do It. Do It With Justice
- September
2004 Santa Anita de la Union, The Beauty of the St. Paul Classic
- August
2004 Crema Café: Home of Sonny's Ice Cream,
- July
2004 Exploring
Our Origins: Ethiopia
- June
2004 Journey through the Life of a Bean
- May
2004 Report
from Colombia and Brad
's Big Bike
Adventure
- April
2004 Nicaragua:
Coffee and
the Community at CECOCAFEN
- March
2004 Fair Trade Friends: United Students
for Fair Trade
- February
2004 Mut Vitz
and APECAFORMM Trip Reports
- January
2004 10
Good Things about a Bad Year
- December
2003 Global Exchange Fair Trade Challenge
- November
2003 Barriers to Fair Trade: NAFTA on
Steroids
- October
2003 Dia de
Los Muertos
- September
2003 Report
from Cancun: Victory
for Fair Trade
- August
2003 Fair
Trade Friends: Oxfam America
- July
2003 Exploring
Our Origins: Sumatra
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