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Latin America

Meet Your Coffee Farmer!

Event info: Sunday 16 October 2011 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Pedro Ascencio is a member and marketing coordinator of Las Colinas coffee cooperative in El Salvador. Equal Exchange (one of their coffee suppliers) and Pedro will visit the Jamaica Plain Forum. It will be a great opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with Pedro and hear more about what Fair Trade means to his community, [...]

Tagged as: community, Latin America

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Dispatches From Mexico: John Ross and the Journey through Mexico

Event info: Friday 30 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speaker: John Ross Author and activist John Ross has spent many years traveling and chronicling struggles for human rights in Mexico. He has written ten books of fiction and non-fiction. His latest volume “El Monstruo – Dread & Redemption in Mexico City”, a street-level peoples’ history of the most polluted, overcrowded, corrupt and crime-ridden megalopolis [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, community, democracy, history, Latin America

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Meet Your Chocolate Farmer: The Story Behind Your Treats

Event info: Friday 19 March 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Come meet a cacao farmer and a staff member of CONACADO cacao co-op in the Dominican Republic who will share their history.   In 1988, the cacao industry in the Dominican Republic was dominated by four major exporters. Most Dominican cacao production was low quality, unfermented beans shipped to the United States at low prices.  Seven [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, community, food, Latin America

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Report from Bolivia: Pushing Back Against Corporate Globalization

Event info: Friday 20 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We are joined by Bolivian activists as part of their Dignity and Defiance Tour across the U.S. We’ll learn about the changes under Bolivian President Evo Morales and hear powerful eyewitness accounts of Bolivia’s decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. In the United States, many of us experience the benefits of globalization and carry [...]

Tagged as: colonialism, Latin America, Mexico, political campaigns, social movements

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Kim Fellner – Wrestling with Starbucks: The Politics of Coffee

Event info: Tuesday 17 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

As a longtime labor and community organizer, Kim Fellner has spent her life fighting corporate abuse. But when fellow demonstrators at the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” smashed in the window of a Starbucks store, she couldn’t escape the feeling that something was wrong with the picture. How had a coffee company with a liberal reputation [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, coffee, food, Latin America, social movements

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The People Decide: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly

Event info: Tuesday 11 September 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary For the last 15 months, a powerful popular movement in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has challenged the corrupt and repressive government of PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz. Journalist Nancy Davies, a resident of Oaxaca, has covered the rebellion and the rise of the popular assembly movement. [...]

Tagged as: democracy, Latin America, report-back, social movements

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Exporting the Drug War Overseas

Event info: Friday 27 July 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, July 27th, 7:00pm First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Presenting Sanho Tree, Fellow at Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the Drug Policy Project. Our jails are filled with nonviolent drug offenders and our militarized approach to combating drugs overseas is destroying indigenous economies and sewing seeds of antagonism toward [...]

Tagged as: colonialism, drug policy, health care, Latin America

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