April 4, 2007
Editor's Picks
Film
Black Gold
Thurs., April 5-Fri., April 6, 8pm. Free, reservations required. WHYY Technology Center, 150 N. Sixth St. 215.351.0511.www.whyy.org
As you sit there reading this while sipping your Ethiopian dark roast, sip on this: Ethiopian coffee farmers receive an average of 35 cents for a kilo of coffee. That same kilo fetches about $230 in the West.
Read that again. It’s not a typo.
WHYY and ITVS Community Cinema team up for a screening of the jolting documentary Black Gold, which sheds sorely needed light on economic injustices in the $80-billion coffee industry. Connecting the current famine in Ethiopia to coffee prices is just one of the topics tackled.
A Q&A session follows the screening, with a panel featuring representatives from Equal Exchange, the Independents Coffee Cooperative and Ten Thousand Villages. (Joshua Valocchi)
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