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Our Coffee Purchasing Ethos

Our Coffee Purchasing Ethos

We take our success and privilege quite seriously. While we are not of a exploitative colonial system, we do certainly benefit from it. It is our r...

PART THREE - Haitian Coffee: From Favourite to Forgotten

PARTIE TROIS - Café Haïtien: de favori à oublié

The reason why people are surprised that we have an Haitian coffee on our menu is mainly because they are unaware of Haiti’s producing and exportin...

PART TWO - The Inevitable U.S. Intervention

As explained in Part I - The Cost of Liberation, Haiti’s enduring poverty is a direct consequence of France’s excessive payment demanded from the s...

Haiti transparency report

We believe in sharing as much as possible about the coffees we buy, including as many details as possible about where the money is going along the ...

PART ONE - The Cost of Liberation

The independence debt discouraged other colonies from attempting to revolt by enforcing an excessive punishment for Haiti’s liberation.

Haiti & Coffee: A Tale of Colonialism, Liberation and U.S. Interventions

Haiti had to use revenues generated by coffee exports to finance its Independence debt which unwillingly tied the nation’s freedom to its coffee.

Angela Davis: Vision and Solidarity

Angela Davis is an amazing woman. Full stop. She has been in the struggle for Black justice since the late 1960s. And since then she has been arres...

You Cannot Truly Kill a King: The Legacy of a True Revolutionary

Clearly Martin Luther King Jr. was a remarkable human being. Tireless energy for the movement of equality. Unimaginable commitment to the ideal of ...

Palestine, Black Liberation, and the Indivisibility of Justice

Again, and I won’t shut up about it, solidarity is the answer. Unity of purpose and an intersectional worldview will set us free. Why is a coffee c...

Return to Origin: An Experiment in Mutual Aid in the Coffee Industry

When we began the Return to Origin article series, we envisioned a space of dialogue. One that would inform, listen, and discuss ways to decolonize...

The Legacy of Fred Hampton

"You Can Kill a Revolutionary, but You Can't Kill a Revolution:" Fred Hampton was quite the remarkable human being. He was a gifted orator, comm...

It Ain’t Over Yet: Juneteenth and the Line Between Activism and Celebration

This is why, for me, Juneteenth is bittersweet. I revel in the potential for Black joy; both past and present. I long for the ideal of breaking bre...

A Discussion with Korie Pickett

I was lucky enough to get to speak with Korie Pickett, edit at Coffee People Zine and creator and curator of Issue 10 of Coffee People Zine. Issue ...