Taller de Café: “Combat Corporations, Climate Change & Forced Migration in Central America’s Coffee Belt” with Anticonquista Café

Taller de Café: “Combat Corporations, Climate Change and Forced Migration in Central America’s Coffee Belt” with Anticonquista Café

Presented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center.

Under the existing coffee market, the corporations command the terms and conditions of the trade with farmers. What would happen if a family of coffee farmers in the Maya Chʼortiʼ region of Guatemala and Honduras set out to shift that dynamic so that the farmers were the ones in command?

Join Anticonquista Café co-owners Elmer Fajardo Pacheco and Lauren Reese, as they share their story of forming a vertically integrated supply chain from their family farm to Chicago to challenge the status quo in the coffee industry. Anticonquista Café advocates for fair prices to fair wages and reparations for climate change to finance sustainable farming practices and to combat forced migration.

Stay after the presentation for Q&A and free cafecito by Anticonquista Café, Chicago’s first family farm-owned and operated coffee roaster.

When: Thursday, Oct. 3

Where: Latino Cultural Center- Lecture Center B2

Time: Noon-2 p.m.