(posted with Norm's permission)


BIRDSONG & COFFEE: A WAKE UP CALL -- Saturday, 4/1 in Columbia

Coffee drinkers can protect birds and guarantee small farmers and 
field-workers a fair price, all while enjoying the highest-quality 
coffee. /Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call/ demonstrates the connection 
between your morning cup of coffee, the livelihoods of the people who 
produce it, and the stability and diversity of our natural environment.

In this film we hear from bird lovers and coffee lovers, experts and 
students, and from coffee farmers and workers themselves. Learn more 
about the natural connection that exists between coffee communities, 
coffee drinkers and birds.


DATE: Saturday, April 1, 2006
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
PLACE: Howard County Central Library
10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy.
(off South Entrance Rd., across from the Mall)
Columbia


** No charge, coffee and refreshments provided **

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/Sponsored by Howard County Friends of Latin America
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We expect to have enough time to view this new film, /Birdsong & Coffee: 
A Wake Up Call/, and have a follow-up discussion. For more information 
call Patty at 410-730-2358 or email 


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/ “... coffee is the second most-traded commodity on earth next to oil. 
... What I'd like to see us do as a nation is to give as much attention 
to the issues of coffee growing as we do to oil production, because I 
think it's just as important to the future sanity of the planet that we 
sustain this earth.” /

/ - Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)/

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PS - To place an order of HoCoFoLA's *Fair Trade, Organic, Shade-Grown 
Coffee go to our website */*/http://www.friendsoflatinamerica.org/