[Peace-discuss] Fw: [ChicagoIWW] Coffee Holiday Fundraiser for the Latino Union

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To: <chicagoiww at lists.iww.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 7:59 PM
Subject: [ChicagoIWW] Coffee Holiday Fundraiser for the Latino Union


Coffee Holiday Fundraiser for the Latino Union
$12/pound. Delivered to your doorstep
email davidameyers at yahoo.com

Each year the Chicory Center fire roasts fresh green cooperatively grown
coffee beans to provide you with chocolatey deliciousness to start your
day and to support the immigrant worker organizing of the Latino Union.
Contact David at the email above to place your order and try the best
coffee you've ever tasted.

Read more below...
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Greetings from a garage near the North Park Village Nature Center on the
northwest side, where the deer and raccoons stroll down the alley checking
out the steaming hot coffee beans being roasted for you and your friends
and family.

This holiday season, as in years past, Resistance Coffee will provide the
freshest, most chocolaty roast around as a fundraiser for Chicago's Latino
Union. This project helps support the organization's work pursuing social
and economic justice among the city's immigrants, particularly those who
gather at street corners seeking day labor.

As thanksgiving and the other holidays approach, please consider putting
an appropriate meaning into the days by giving thanks to all the people
who, having emigrated to this country primarily because of trade
agreements like NAFTA, must stand on street corners each day in order to
move our furniture and paint our apartments. Day laborers occupy one of
the most vulnerable sectors of the working class and of the city's
immigrant communities, and deserve our support.

This year's roast will be fair trade organic coffee beans grown and
processed by La FEM women's cooperative in Nicaragua. "It's a priority of
ours to build horizontal relationships with organizations where we can
mutually illuminate each other to find viable and sustainable projects,"
says Diana Martinez of the Fundación Entre Mujeres (La FEM). La FEM's
history is unique in that its beginning is rooted in helping rural women
access land for productive purposes. "It's important for women to hold
land. It's hard for them to have a life based on equality without it,"
says Martinez.

The cost of this fundraising coffee is $12 per pound (more if you've got
it less if you're broke), with $4 covering the coffee and expenses, $4
going to the coffee roaster, and $4 going to the Latino Union. If you
would like to make a further donation to the LU's work, simply add that
amount to your payment, and it will be passed on directly.

Regular deliveries will be made Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout the
holidays, and other delivery days will be scheduled ad-hoc. Simply email
how much coffee you need.

Thanks for your support, both of the Latino Union and of Resistance
Coffee. As a special favor, if you could pass this appeal on to just one
of your committed coffee-drinking friends, it would be much appreciated!


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The Latino Union.
The Latino Union has collaborated with low-income immigrant and day labor
workers in developing the tools necessary to collectively improve social
and economic conditions for over eight years. The LU develops leadership
in the immigrant worker community, develops viable alternatives to the
injustices immigrant workers face, and is helping to build a larger
movement for immigrant rights.

As with other non-profit organizations, the Latino Union's community-based
fundraising efforts - such as coffee benefits and the upcoming December 5
anniversary dinner and flamenco concert (latinounion.org) - not only help
the work to continue, but come with no strings attached. This kind of
funding can make a difference in whether or not less popular organizing
work gets done.

Resistance Coffee and the Chicory Center.
Resistance Coffee and On-the-Fly Farm are projects of the Chicory Center,
which serves as a nucleus for addressing local and regional food justice
issues from an anarchist perspective. Fostering relationships with
low-income people and grassroots and radical organizations, the Chicory
Center puts the values of liberation, resistance, and solidarity at the
core of its philosophy and activism. The Chicory Center and On-the-Fly
Farm support flying in the face of conventional wisdom in an effort to
show that people acting creatively, on their own initiative, can not only
feed themselves but in that effort challenge entrenched power and further
the struggle for a just and liberated existence.

"I used to like Intelligensia, but I can't even drink it after trying
Resistance."
 - Anon

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Send your resume to erodriguez at latinounion.org to become an organizer in
Chicago's immigrant rights movement.
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Latino Union of Chicago
1619 W. 19th St
Chicago, IL 60608
www.latinounion.org
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