Fair trade coffee

We discussed taking up Bellarmine about their distribution of coffee that is not fair-trade. Seattle's Best does in fact have a line of fair-trade, but we don't use it (it may cost a nickel or dime more per cup). I suggest that we take up this issue with the administration before Christmas break and demand that they start providing fair-trade on campus.

Here's a website with more info about the benefits of fair-trade: http://equalexchange.com

Also, this is the line of fair-trade offered by Seattle's Best (wow they offer one whole type and don't even advertise it!!)
http://seattlesbest.com/products/Product.aspx?productID=17

We could start simply by talking to the administration and see if they are aware of this issue (how can they not be?) and see how they respond (probably by sending us up the ladder to talk to someone else). Any thoughts?

Taking our consciousness home

Given much of the talk in our recent Bb forum surrounding privilege and how we take our evolving consciousness home, let's also open up a space here to share some of our holiday discussions--strategies, experiences, ways we'd say things differently next time, etc.

hooks claims that if we cannot confront these issues within relationships where there is love, there is little chance we will be able to take them up elsewhere, effectively. [Her challenges sound so simple, but are so complicated.]

A moment of creation revealed

Rebecca Solnit (2004), in Hope in the Dark, describes a moment of creation as that moment in which creativity, democracy, and justice take one step forward. In many ways, these 48 hours provided us with a moment of creation for which we seek to extend, expand, and exploit toward even more fulfilling possibilities as a result of the event. In what way was Shantytown III a moment of creation for you? What are some ways forward such that our celebratory lunch finale is not where the experience ends?

The Organic Intellectual's (abridged and evolving) Reading List

Please post your your book ideas for generating a more critical consciousness and an activist spirit.

Welcome to VoICE--Voices for Inquiry, Community, Equity

Welcome.