February Labor Film Special: Black Gold
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February Labor Film Special: Black Gold
Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA) supporters know that as an organization, we support all aspects of Fair Trade throughout the world. Although not filmed in Latin America, the situation depicted in this film is typical to those faced by coffee farmers everywhere. After seeing this eye opening film if you do not regularly buy Fair Trade coffee, after you see it, it is likely you always will! Please come!
Three Screenings: Friday, February 2 at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 3 at 5 p.m. and Sunday, February 4 at 7 p.m.
Where: The Dryden Theatre, located at George Eastman House, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Fair Trade Coffee: To be sold by Rochester's local cooperative market Abundance Co-Op
BLACK GOLD (Mark & Nick Francis, UK 2006, 78 min., Beta-SP projection). This eye-opening new documentary may cause you to think twice before your next trip to Starbucks. By contrasting thriving coffee shops in Europe and North America against devastatingly poor coffee farms in Ethiopia, the filmmakers shed light on the unfair trade and labor practices that have kept Africa mired in poverty for so long. Black Gold’s central figure is Tadesse Meskela, manager of a farmers’ cooperative. He travels the world trying to negotiate fair prices for his members and explain to Westerners that most of their coffee dollar is going into the pockets of commodities traders and multi-national corporations.
