AUB Campus, West Hall 204
“Tracing the path of the coffee consumed each day to the farmers who produce them, Black Gold asks us to “wake up and smell the coffee”, to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. In particular, it follows Tadesse Meskela, a representative of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Southern Ethiopia, as he tries to secure a living wage for the 70,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers represents. Black Gold goes inside the coffee auctions in Addis Ababa, London, and New York where the fate of the coffee growing nations is decided, exposing how international commodities markets are rigged against the nations of the global South.”
Join us after the film for a discussion of how Starbucks affects our lives.
