Javatrekker

In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century n globalization, immigration, womenis rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination n are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings readers face-to-face with the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible. Second only to oil in terms of its value, the coffee trade is complex with several levels of middlemen removing the 28 million growers in fifty distant countries far from you and your morning cup. And, according to Cycon, 99 percent of the people involved in the coffee economy have never been to a coffee village. They let advertising and images from the major coffee companies create their worldview. Cycon changes that in this compelling book, taking the reader on a tour of ten countries in nine chapters through his passionate eye and unique perspective. Cycon, who is himself an amalgam n equal parts entrepreneur, activist, and mischievous explorer n has travelled extensively throughout the worldis tropical coffeelands, and shows readers places and people that few if any outsiders have ever seen

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"Dean Cycon's experience has ranged from Native communities in North America to the depths of the oceans and remote coffee producing villages and communities internationally. Cycon's analysis and experience, as well as his humorous and engaging style, promise to bring stories to the light of day that would not and could not be told, simply because no one else has his range of experience. Coffee is god to many of us in the morning, and yet, we know so little about its history and present issues. Linking coffee drinkers to the communities is the work of Dean Cycon in an animated, vital and forever engaging manner. Javatrekker promises to be a set of stories, adventures and compelling relationships told for all of us to eagerly read."<br>--Winona LaDuke, indigenous rights activist, author of "All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life and Recovering the Sacred"

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Dean Cycon owns Deanis Beans, an all-organic, all-fair-trade, all-kosher coffee roaster in Orange, MA. He and his company lead the industry in commitment to true fair-trade principles. Projects funded through Deanis Beans include a revolving loan fund to dig wells in Ethiopia, a coffee roaster/cafE in Nicaragua owned and operated by a prosthetics clinic giving limbs and therapy to landmine victims, reforestation in Peru, and coffee de-pulping machines in Papua New Guinea. To learn more about Deanis Beans visit www.deansbeans.com.

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Part 1 Miriamis Well Fermenting Change Part 2 Bridging the Gap Global Warning: Climate Change, Conflict and Culture Part 3 Lighting a Candle for Freedom (Guatemala 1993) Tracking the Death Train Coffee, Landmines, and Hope Part 4 Good Friends, The 300-Man March Epilogue

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