Oakland Things come in threes? Fate reaches out for you? Of all things in the Bay Area in recent days I started to feel like this was happening to me and cooperatives. I was stumbling over and into them everywhere I went. Visiting with Peter Olney, the organizing director for ILWU, he told me fascinating …
Category: Coffee
The Dark Side of Chocolate
New Orleans Being immersed in the issues of fairtrade because of ACORN International’s partnerships with coffee cooperatives in Honduras and the fact that Fair Grinds Coffeehouse is a 100% fairtrade house, getting a flyer for a neighborhood screening of a documentary called The Dark Side of Chocolate that promoted a “free chocolate tasting [fair trade]” …
Lawrence Powell, The Accidental City, and Walking the Bridge of the Enjoyment Culture
New Orleans Speaking in the Fair Grinds Coffeehouse Common Space in a book signing event organized by the Faubourg St. John branch of the Maple Street Bookstore, Lawrence Powell, Tulane University professor conceded that when he first agreed to write what he hoped would be 300-400 history of New Orleans in 2006 in the aftermath of …