From the press release I received:

After its critically acclaimed tour of festival around the world, Screening Liberally is teaming up with Eating Liberally to bring Black Gold back to New York.

This riveting documentary examines how multinational coffee companies became the rulers our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion.  Coffee is the second 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.

Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.

Watch the trailer: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/trailer.php

Join us for organic and fair trade treats courtesy of  Eating Liberally and stay for a Q&A with representatives from the New York Fair Trade Coalition, interrupcion*, The Food Project and The Fair Trade Resource Network.

RSVP: ScreeningLiberallyRSVP@gmail.com

Screening is FREE with a suggested donation of $10 to benefit Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union in Ethiopia.

Special thanks to Oxfam America for sending us Take Action guides.

Screening Liberally presents Black Gold
Wednesday, June 27th
7:30 pm
The Tank
279 Church Street
Get directions: http://www.thetanknyc.org/contact/index.html

[FYI:  Freeze Peach, our CSA site, serves only Fair Trade, organic coffee!]