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The Don Conoscenti Show was really a great evening. Like I said, great night, great weather, great people, and Jake and Don rocked the Barn!

Thanks to all the people who came out and supported Growing Hope. Growing Hope is a good example of building community one person at a time. Special thanks to Trader Joes who provided the Snacks.

Don Conoscenti is a good example for how to be human in the world today. Polite, gracious, poetic, people of the man, man of the people. Thanks for coming Don! Thank you Tarek for arranging for Don and Jake to play at the Barn!

Becca Sobel, of Greenpeace, who is in Ann Arbor working for thru the end of the year, was in action getting people to write letters to John Dingell on the issue of global warming .

A very helpful person, Eileen Quintero, pointed out a comment someone had made on a list serve about the Growing Hope Event and Roos Roast was mentioned because I was giving out free espresso drinks and the question was raised about Fair Trade, or Free Trade, Free Speech or Roos Roast being authentic with it’s Organic and Fair Trade claims. I’d like to take this opportunity to point out:

"Free Speech Coffee" is my tag line and refers to the effect my coffee has on the those who drink it. (Supposed to be funny) Coffee rather then Alcohol raises the consciousness and gets ideas out in the world by talking about them. And because it’s from Ann Arbor and as a person who grew up here I remember Ann Arbor as liberal and free speech was the curriculum. (Seems to have back-fired.)

My coffee is Organic and Fair trade. I sometimes purchase a bag of Single High Grown Arabica from a transitional Farm as they get the required certification.

Please let it be known that I'm a member of the Alaska Coalition and working with Green Peace locally on issues such as global warming.

I currently building a new shopping cart page that will show all the types of coffee I have in stock

If anyone would like to purchase Roos Roast Organic and Fair trade Coffee currently I have
Available:

Ethiopian Harrar
Ethoipian Yirgacheff
Sumatra
Guatemalan
Water Processed Decaf Peru

In addition to all the coffee’s listed on the buy coffee page.