The Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition is a newly-formed group of consumers, students, non-profits, Fair Trade businesses, activists and community members working together to raise awareness and build demand for Fair Trade in the Bay Area. We hope to make San Francisco the first Fair Trade Town in the US!

We welcome everyone whether youre new to Fair Trade and want to learn more, or a seasoned Fair Trade pro. Come join us!

The Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition is currently working on the following:

Working with City Hall on Fair Trade legislation
Outreach to local businesses to scout FT availability and encourage them to offer FT products
General tabling at local grassroots events and festivals
Planning events to celebrate Fair Trade Day in May
Campus organizing

Our meetings are usually the first and third Wednesday of the month at 5:30.



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http://blackgoldmovie.com/

After Oil, coffee is the most actively traded
commodity in the world, with $80 billion in retail
sales. But for every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer
receives about 3 cents. Most of the money goes to the
middlemen, especially the four giant conglomerates
which control the coffee market.

Tracing the path of the coffee consumed each day to
the farmers who produce the beans, BLACK GOLD asks us
to "wake up and smell the coffee", to face the unjust
conditions under which our favorite drink in produced
and to decide what we can do about it. BLACK GOLD
provides shocking inside view of commodity trading and
offer a compelling introduction to the "Fair Trade"
movement galvanizing consumers around the globe.
Serving as the media centerpiece of a national
campaign promoting Fair Trade coffee, BLACK GOLD
demonstrates the role of the left media as a tool for
shaping public culture and, by extension, in altering
the existing economic paradigm. Ultimately, the film
forces us as Western consumers to question some of our
basic assumptions about our consumer purchases and the
effects on the rest of the world.





"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.