Black Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DePOBjunXU

I'm back in the UK at the moment and trying not to get the reverse culture shock rage against greed feeling, I'm mostly succeeding but watching movies like this doesn't help! If you like coffee or people I really recommend this film about the coffee trade (use the link above to watch the trailer on youtube), I warn you it may make you want to hit some people but this guy Tadesse Meskela is a legend, I want to be him. There is an awesome scene in the film where a load of farmers in one of the co-operatives decide to spend the profits from their fairtrade coffee on building a school for their area, they don't quite have enough to pay for it so they decide they will put extra money in from their own pockets and they all cheer... Ah if only these guys ran the WTO... I've added a cheeky gadget to my blog too, it calculates how much of the money we spend on coffee goes to the farmers. Its really easy to buy fairtrade coffee and bananas and chocolate these days so just do it.