We are thrilled to announce that Black Gold - the critically acclaimed documentary following the Ethiopian Fair Trade cooperative Oromia - will be televised nationally on PBS on April 10! Host a Fair Trade House Party to view the film and share the importance of Fair Trade with your family, friends and colleagues. To support your efforts, we have launched a special new web page filled with fun ideas, fact sheets and discussion questions. With your help, we can build awareness around Fair Trade and its critical role in building a more equitable global economy.

In addition to supporting women through Fair Trade, a portion of the proceeds of the sale of Café Humana's Empowerment Blend support two great organizations, The Cafe Femenino Foundation and the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Learn more here.

Deepen that warm, fuzzy feeling by choosing a hot cocoa mix that benefits both growers and the environment. Utne Reader Hot Cocoa is organic, which helps protect the environment, and it's also Fair Trade Certified, guaranteeing that farmers received a fair price for their crop. Order it here.

This carbonated, non-dairy coffee drink is blended with Fair Trade Certified organic coffee from Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and sweetened with organically certified, pure cane juice. The retro-inspired bottles will be sold individually and in four-packs at major retailers.

Nepalese farmers who grow this tea use Fair Trade premiums to build living quarters, provide food subsidies, fund medical facilities, and send their children to a local English boarding school. Choice also donates 10 cents per box sold to Save The Himalayan Kingdom, a non-profit organization that implements environmental, health and literacy programs in Nepal.

A British company operating since 1997, Divine Chocolate recently set up a sister company in Washington, DC, with the aim of bringing Fair Trade chocolate to mainstream U.S. consumers. Divine Chocolate is made with cocoa grown by the members of Kuapa Kokoo, a co-op with over 20,000 small-scale farmer members. Listen to an interview with CEO Erin Gorman on Marketplace, American Public Media.

Did you know that Americans consume an average of 26 pounds of bananas per year? Learn more about the history of the banana, the conditions faced by banana workers in Latin America, and how Fair Trade and the pioneering fruit company Oké USA are working for positive change.

Catholics and other socially conscious coffee-lovers in Spokane, Washington now have the opportunity to make a difference by purchasing Fair Trade coffee through a partnership between Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Nectar of Life, a local company offering 100% Fair Trade coffee. Nectar of Life contributes a percentage of all sales through the program to the CRS Fair Trade Fund to support the agency's work on behalf of disadvantaged artisans and farmers around the world.

Connecting past and present, the new book Liquid Jade explores the world of tea today and discusses how organic and Fair Trade practices can begin to address the damage of hundreds of years of labor and soil exploitation. A whole chapter entitled "A Fair Cup" is dedicated to explaining the principles of Fair Trade.

With a very UK focus, (one chapter is entitled, "Give Bad Balls the Boot") this new book focuses on - what else? - the numerous compelling reasons to buy Fair Trade. The authors have long history of involvement in Fair Trade and the global justice movement. Order the book here.

“Democracy Now!” Host Amy Goodman interviews an attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund about child slavery in the cocoa industry and the Fair Trade solution.

Yes, that's right. TransFair has a new MySpace page! Say hello and be our friend. We can be found at http://www.myspace.com/fairtradecertified.

I go to the College of William and Mary and I had a screening of Black Gold at the university. Over 300 people came, and they left saying they felt their perspectives changed after the movie. People then proceeded to buy all of our Fair Trade goods, take literature and drink the coffee. Black Gold made an impact at my school. Just want you to know. Thank you! -- Erica C.

More ideas and inspiration for supporting Fair Trade in your community can be found here.

Congratulations to the Fair Trade coffee cooperative COOPAC for winning big in the Eastern African Fine Coffees Association cupping competition. With an impressive score of 86.08, COOPAC took first place among Rwandan coffee producers and 3rd place overall.

Perched on the steep hills of northwest Rwanda, the Coopérative Pour la Promotion des Activités-Café (COOPAC), is located in a region with high altitude, heavy rainfall, and mineral-rich soil that provide perfect conditions for growing the finest Arabica coffees.

Coffee had long been Rwanda's largest export, but production plunged following the genocide in 1994. Despite these challenges, COOPAC has doubled its production each year since its founding in 2001 and demonstrates the potential of the Rwandan coffee market to benefit local communities.

Read more about our producer partners and the impacts of Fair Trade here.

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