Indymedia York

A chance to meet the Cut the Carbon 1000 mile marchers from both the UK and the Global South. Quiz evening with general as well as environmental rounds, plus short talk from one of Christian Aid’s overseas partners.

Christian Aid's "Cut the Carbon" marchers pass through York on the leg from Haxby to Selby. Meet the marchers 11.00 to 11.20am approx in St Sampson’s Square. Hopefully one or two will speak about what they are doing and why. People are then invited to accompany the marchers from St Sampson’s Square to the Millennium Bridge (via Kings Staith and New Walk) where, at 11.50am approx, short prayers will be said for progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

If you miss them in York, why not take a train, bus or bike ride over to Leeds, where they'll be in the city on Saturday 11th?

Ticket prices are unknown, but probably City Screen normal costs. The film was made in collaboration with Christian Aid. The following is taken from the film's website.

Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.

Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.

Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.