In last November’s issue of Fair Grounds, we wrote about conscious consumption and our unique opportunity to make the world a better place via the purchasing decisions we make every day. We hope that you find everything you need for the holiday season in our expanded offering of Fair Trade products. But if you don’t, please be sure to check out the many other Fair Trade companies around the country who have made the same 100% commitment to Fair Trade as we here at Café Campesino have made.

Café Campesino…Coffee with a conscience = a gift with a conscience! 

Besides being 100% Fair Trade, organic and shade grown, all of our coffee is roasted-to-order, which means when you give Café Campesino coffee as a gift, you’re giving some of the best specialty-grade coffee in the United States…inside and out! In addition to our lineup of single varietals, tasty blends and great decafs, we also offer gift boxes with different themes…visit our Gift Ideas section on our website for more information.

Finally, to help our customers knock out their gift lists in one fell swoop, Café Campesino offers volume discounts on our 1-lb. bags of delicious Café Campesino coffee. Order 10 to 19 Bags and get a 10% discount; 20 to 29 Bags - 20%; and 30 + Bags - 30%. 

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We launched Three Frontiers Trading Company last year in an effort to expand our role in the Fair Trade movement and offer a broader selection of quality, Fair Trade products. Three Frontiers Trading offers handcrafted items produced by small artisan cooperatives throughout the developing world — truly beautiful works of pottery, holiday decorations, furnishings for both indoor and outdoor living, clothing and accessories, musical instruments, stimulating kids toys and much more.

By clicking through to threefrontiers.com from this link in Fair Grounds, you will automatically receive 10% off when you order from Three Frontiers Trading.

(Please note that you will be taken out of Café Campesino’s website and threefrontiers.com will open in a new window. Orders placed on threefrontiers.com will be charged and shipped separately from orders placed on Café Campesino.)

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This upcoming weekend (November 18-20), Café Campesino will travel to Ft. Benning in Columbus, GA, to join thousands of students, people of faith and human rights activists for the annual vigil protesting the US Army School of the Americas (SOA). The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) is a grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to change what many believe is the oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. This will be the seventh year that Café Campesino serves coffee from Fair Trade farmers in countries that are directly affected by those trained at the school in order to raise funds for SOA Watch.

SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main gate of Ft. Benning in 1990, one year after six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador and a U.S. Congressional Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning. While starting with a small group, SOA Watch quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who had worked with the people of Latin America in the 1970's and 80's. 

Today, the SOA Watch movement is a large, diverse, grassroots movement rooted in solidarity with the people of Latin America. The goal of SOA Watch is to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy in Latin America by educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in creative, nonviolent resistance. 

Café Campesino will be joined by our friends from the Newman Catholic Center in Illinois, Koinonia Partners here in Americus and Mexico Solidarity Network, which is based in Chicago. To learn more about SOA Watch, visit www.soaw.org. 

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In last year's November issue of Fair Grounds, we featured Oyamel, Cocina Mexicana, as our customer of the month. Named after a coniferous pine tree native to Mexico, Oyamel represents the important Mexican Oyamel Forests, which are an essential haven for the migration of the Monarch Butterfly. 

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• October 2005 Hurricane Stan Ravages Our Guatemalan Friends, Report From the Fair Trade Futures Conference, Customer Spotlight: Sobornost for the World Foundation's World Village Fair Trade Market, Fair Trade Partner: Maya Tech Learning Centers
• September 2005 Cooperative Coffees and Producers Meet in Guatamala by Tripp Pomeroy, Café Campesino’s General ManagerSupport OXFAM - Support Fair Trade, Customer Spotlight: Rainbow Natural Grocery, Fair Trade Partner: A Different Approach
• August 2005 Producer Profile: Fondo Paez, Customer Spotlight: Apoteca, Fair Trade Partner: Pachamama, A World of Artisans
• July 2005 Harrar Joins Our Coffee Lineup, Producer Profile: Ethiopia's OCFCU, Fair Trade on the Home Front
• June 2005 Sumatra Update: June 2005 provided by Thomas Fricke, ForesTrade, National Fair Trade Conference, Fair Trade Partner: Three Frontiers Trading Co.
• May 2005 Producer Profile: ACMPASA Santa Anita, Top 10 Ways to Support Fair Trade, Customer Spotlight: Crimson Moon Café, Fair Trade Partner: Fair Trade Resource Network
• April 2005 An Eye-Opening Trip to Guatemala by Bill Harris, Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Coffee Program, Manna Grocery and Deli, La Esmeralda Stove Project
• March 2005 Insights From Our Guatemala Producer Partners by Tripp Pomeroy, Take Us To Your Coffeehouse!, Customer Spotlight: The Sentient Bean, Fair Trade Partner: Mexico Solidarity Network
• February 2005 Meeting Our Guatemala Partners Face to Face, Producer Profile: APECAFORM, Customer Spotlight: Mayflower Coffee Company, Fair Trade Partner: CoffeeTradeJustice.com
• January 2005 Tragedy's Wake: Update From Sumatra, Producer Profile: PPKGO Cooperative
• December 2004 Mexico: Notes From the Field, Customer Spotlight: Ten Thousand Villages, Fair Trade Partner: Cloudforest Initiatives
• November 2004 Conscious Consumption: A Personal Perspective, Customer Spotlight: Oyamel - Cocina Mexicana, Fair Trade Partner: Three Frontiers Trading Co.
• October 2004 A Mission...Not a Market: The 2004 Vote: Making it Work
• September 2004 Producer News: CECOCAFEN in the Off Season, Customer Spotlight: The Healthy Gourmet
• August 2004 Producer Profile: Cooperativa Café Timor, Fair Trade Friends: Marketplace of India
• July 2004 A Fair Trade Reality Check, Fair Trade Friends: Tribal Fiber, Coffee Lab International
• June 2004 The Promise of Fair Trade, Fair Trade Friend: Global Crafts
• May 2004 Fair Trade at the Carter Center, SCAA meeting.
• April 2004 Coffee and Community in Nicaragua, Fair Trade in Americus Makes the News!
• March 2004 Fair Trade chocolate, Rosetta's Kitchen
• February 2004 Bill's Return to Guatemala, Guayakí Rainforest
• January 2004 Espresso - What's the Buzz?
• December 2003 Fair Trade: Global Exchange's Fair Trade Challenge; Fellow Fair Traders: SERRV International
• November 2003 Fair Trade: More Than Just a Fair Price; Fellow Fair Traders: Lucuma Designs
• October 2003 Exploring the Coffee Regions
• September 2003 Cooperative Coffees Annual Meeting
• August 2003 Fair Trade Friends: Oxfam America; The Art (and Science) of Roasting Coffee
• July 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Sumatra
• June 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Guatemala; Gayo Mountain Adventure; Dr. Coffee - Cupping
• May 2003 Fair Trade Friends: United Students for Fair Trade; World Fair Trade Day
• April 2003 Exploring Our Origins: Ethiopia; Celebrating Earth Day with Fair Trade
• March 2003 Bill's Central American Adventures, Part 2; SWP Decaffeination
• February 2002 Bill's Central American Adventures, Part 1
• January 2003 My Life as a Bean
• December 2002 Exploring Our Origins: East Timor; Sustainable Development
• November 2002 New Website; Gift Baskets
• October 2002 Interview with roaster Lee Harris
• September 2002 ForesTrade Wins UN Sustainability Award; Exploring Our Origins: Sumatra's Gayo Cooperative
• August 2002 Producer News: Shade Grown; Fair Trade Friends: Atlanta Audubon
• July 2002 Exploring Our Origins: Colombia
• June 2002 Back Roads Journal: Cooperative Coffees and Café Campesino; Exploring Our Origins: Peru; Fair Trade Friends: Music of the Andes
• May 2002 Staff Notes: Cinco de Mayo; Producer News: Visit to Mut Viz; Back Roads Journal: SCAA Meeting
• April 2002 Back Roads Journal: Travels in Fair Trade; Customer Composting Tip