[Antiracism] Dean's Beans Coffee Celebration - Mon. May 8 - Marka Music @ Black Sheep, Amherst

[Eduardo Suarez]

YOU ARE INVITED..... DEAN'S BEANS RAISING THE BAR COFFEE CELEBRATIONCelebrate Dean's Beans signing of the first ever long-term fair tradeagreement by an American coffee company Please join us for the Dean's Beans Raising the Bar Coffee Celebration onThursday, May 8 from 8-10pm at the Black sheep in Amherst. Enjoy freeorganic, fair trade coffee, talk with Dean Cycon, owner of Dean's Beans,and Hiderico Bocangel, manager of the Oro Verde Coffee Cooperative inPeru. Enjoy live Central and South American music by MarKamusic. Part of Fair Trade Awareness Week activities, this event is sponsored byDean's Beans, the Amherst Fair Trade Partnership, and the Black Sheep inAmherst. It is free and open to the public. Children are welcome. Dean's Beans is proud to be the first ever American importer of Oro VerdeCoffee, and the first to sign a long term fair trade agreement with theOro Verde Cooperative. This agreement marks the first time an Americancoffee company has signed a long-term fair trade agreement with anyfair trade coffee cooperative. By signing this agreement, Dean's Beans has once again raised the bar forthe entire American coffee industry, challenging other companies- largeand small- to do more to promote economic and social justice in thecoffeelands, and to prioritize the wellbeing of farmers and theirchildren. “Everybody talks about long-term commitment, but no one has been willingto commit themselves to what that really means. We are hoping that thisagreement will model the possibilities for others interested in thewelfare of the coffee communities they buy from as well as the long termsuccess of their own companies,” Cycon said. ABOUT DEAN’S BEANSDeans Beans is a family-owned certified organic, fair trade, $3 millionspecialty coffee company based in Orange, MA. The company is dedicated toproviding reasonably priced, great tasting coffee in a manner thatsupports and exemplifies its core belief in peaceful social chance. Theydo this at home and abroad through: Ethical buying and businesspractices, progressive development projects, and sound ecologicalpractices. The company designs and funds people-centered development projects in thecoffee lands in partnership with the growers, and returns a percentage ofprofits to the growers as a Social Equity Premium, giving Deans Beans thedistinction of paying farmers more per pound of coffee than any othercompany in the United States. Dean’s Beans is the winner of the Best Practices Recognition Award fromthe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and theSpecialty Coffee Association of America’s Sustainability Award. InAugust, 2004, Dean’s Beans become the first coffee company in America toconduct an independent Fair Trade Audit. The results and supportingdocumentation are posted on the website. For more information: Melanie DeSilva, Special Projects Coordinator413-687-1269978-544-2002 x12www.deansbeans.com.  Melanie DeSilvaSpecial ProjectsDean's Beans Organic Coffee50 R.W. Moore Ave.Orange, MA 01364(978)544-2002 100% Organic/Fair Trade Coffee, Cocoa and MoreDesigning and Funding People-Centered Development Projects Throughout theCoffeelandsSupporting Farming Communities Through Advocacy and Activism100% Organic and Fair Tradewww.deansbeans.com 
..if you have come...to help me, you're wasting your time... But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.. Aboriginal activists, Queensland, Australia 1970's


Eduardo Suárez

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