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pspan class='filter-thumb' style='float: top;'a href=/en/photo/4439img src=/files/images/Snapshot 2008-10-15 13-37-40.preview.jpg alt=fresh cup pic title=fresh cup pic class=acidfree-plain width=300 height=173 //a/span/p pJC is featured in a new article in Fresh Cup magazine this month. /p pFor those of you who do not religiously read industry journals, Fresh Cup is the coffee industry publication most read by the younger and hipper coffee generation. Remember the coffee propaganda piece in the '80s featuring ELO's Hold on Tight? Well they did not put that out, but I'll bet they think it is funny too (see below). Fresh Cup fairly regularly covers fair trade issues and occasionally profiles coffee growers./p pThe article is entitled somewhat cheekily Exploiting the Cooperative Advantage and gives a very good account of the challenges and advantages of being a worker cooperative. He also points out that the co-op is the most tried and true business structure dating back centuries./p pCheck out the story by downloading the PDF below the video. If you like it, visit their a href=http://www.freshcup.comwebsite/a here. /p pAnd finally, please drink more coffee. It will propel you to smack a man down like Cicely Tyson does in the video./p pobject width=425 height=344br / param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/2rea-yBgOSoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1/param param name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/2rea-yBgOSoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object/p pa href=http://justcoffee.coop/en/node/4437read more/a/p

div style=text-align: left; padding: 3px; a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/28671878@N05/2892332718/ title=photo sharingimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2892332718_d834879336.jpg style=border: solid 2px #000000; alt= //abr / br / span style=font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/28671878@N05/2892332718/The real BIO-FUEL/a, originally uploaded by a href=http://www.flickr.com/people/28671878@N05/justcoffee4u/a./span /div p The second annual a href=http://www.macsac.org/bikethebarns/ BIKE THE BARNS/a CSA tour was a raging success. 500-plus cyclists did the rural ride this year. Coffee for at least 400 was served at Drumlin farm at 7:30 am! I was up at 4:30 and brewing by 5am -- Made it to Cafe Soleil by 7am to pick up a 1000 pastries and hard boiled eggs --- All delivered to Drumlin by 7:33 --- they went thru 6 - 5 gallon cambro's of BIKE FUEL by 8:30 -- the rest of my day was spent in a href=http://justcoffee.coop/en/photo/4314 JC 1/a picking up broken bikes or bikers (only one biker). /p pAll in all a great day -- a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/28671878@N05/sets/72157607558226837/ Check out the Pics/a -- /p pa href='http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/wi/madison/769794228626'img src='http://www.mapmyride.com/images/btn_view_interactive_map.gif' border='0' alt='View Interactive Map on MapMyRide.com'/a/p pa href=http://justcoffee.coop/en/blog/mikemiller/2008/10/01/the_real_bio_fuelread more/a/p

pimg src=/files/jaffee.jpg align=right hspace=10px vspace=10pxLongtime JC friend Dan Jaffee was recently awarded the 2007 C. Wright Mills Book Award for the book based on his Ph.D. dissertation from UW, a href=http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10607.phpBrewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival/a. It's kind of a big deal, and well deserved. /p pAs explained by the a href=http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/259Society for the Study of Social Problems/a which administers the award:/p blockquotepemC. Wright Mills wrote in The Power Elite that: “Only when mind has an autonomous basis, independent of power, but powerfully related to it, can mind exert its force in the shaping of human affairs. This is democratically possible only when there exists a free and knowledgeable public, to which [people] of knowledge may address themselves, and to which [people] of power are truly responsible.” /em/p/blockquote pThey award the prize to the book that most effectively: /p blockquotepem/p p1) critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance,/p p2) brings to the topic a fresh, imaginative perspective,/p p3) advances social scientific understanding of the topic,/p p4) displays a theoretically informed view and empirical orientation,/p p5) evinces quality in style of writing,/p p6) explicitly or implicitly contains implications for courses of action./em/p/blockquote pCongrats Dan!/p pa href=http://justcoffee.coop/en/node/4072read more/a/p