Fair Trade is much more than a fair price!  Fair Trade principles include:
• Fair price
• Fair labor conditions
• Direct trade eliminating unnecessary middlemen
• Democratic and transparent organizations
• Community development
• Environmental sustainability

Join the BUF and its Green Sancutary and Social Justice Teams for the film
"Black Gold"- As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.  Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.  But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
Film conversations to follow and Fair Trade vendors available throughout the evening.

When:
November 13, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Where:
BUF Sanctuary
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
1708 I St. Bellingham WA 98225