MEDIA INDIGENA 345 (Patreon)

Spilling the beans on Indigenous involvement in the coffee trade ☕ MI 345

ON THIS WEEK’ S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

For our latest mini INDIGENA (the sweet + sour version of MEDIA INDIGENA), we yank on the global supply chain linking locals in Campbell River, B.C. to the opening of what’s only the second “Indigenous-operated, licensed Starbucks store” in Canada.

And just like last time—when our MINI went long on what we meant to be just our opening topic—our content cup once again runneth over, as we eat up an entire episode exploring the ethics of commodity-based commerce as carried out by Indigenous participants at each end of the colossal coffee trade.

Joining fairly-caffeinated host/producer Rick Harp the afternoon of Wednesday, April 3rd were coffee companions Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society) and Candis Callison (UBC Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs).

Links consulted/referenced this episode include:

• “Fair trade coffee a big business, but Indigenous growers not getting rich” The Cronkite School

• “…Starbucks sources coffee from areas in Guatemala where 90% of the population… is indigenous Maya.” Human Rights and Dilemmas Forum

• “Who We Help / Part 1: Poor and Indigenous” Café Elba

• Starbucks and Nespresso: The Truth About Your Coffee Dispatches (Channel 4)

• “From bean to cup, what goes into the cost of your coffee?” Financial Times

• “How much of the final price of a cup of coffee do farmers receive?” Perfect Daily Grind

• “so f**ked that the best explanation of commodity fetishism i've ever seen was written by the guy who voiced the t rex in toy story [i.e., Wallace Shawn, in his play The Fever] ”: Tweet by Jared (@b1g_damage)

• “Every ‘inconceivable’ from The Princess Bride” YouTube

• Child Labor in Guatemala’s Coffee Industry The Borgen Project

• HaidaBucksCafe.com

• How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United The Nation

• Vancouver's only unionized Starbucks set to close CBC News

• ‘Over the top’: Native Women’s Association of Canada embroiled in controversy APTN News

• National Indigenous women's organization accused of union-busting as it lays off dozens of staff CBC News

• Phoenix coffee shop claims it’s being retaliated against for political views AZFamily.com

NB: The following are shared for informational purposes and not necessarily endorsement

• “If ur in PHX please support Skoden Coffee, its an Indigenous lesbian owned coffeehouse [which] openly supports Palestine and recently they've been harassed…” KaylaWayla20 on Twitter

• Help Skoden Coffee Find A Permanent Home!” GoFund.Me

• “Your next cup of coffee should come from Canada’s North” Canadian Geographic

• “Indigenous Woman Trailblazer Builds Coffee Brand on Mohawk Territory” ELLE Canada

• “Solstice Coffee supports a fully Indigenous supply chain from farm to cup” Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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