Did you know that Four Corners has an Education Committee with speakers on Fair Trade, Sustainability, Immigration and Sweatshops? Please check out the list of speakers at our web site. Also note the upcoming series on Voluntary Simplicity organized by one of our volunteers described below. The Committee also has purchased a number of excellent and challenging videos for the use of teachers and families. Email the store if you would like to borrow one.

Films Available from the Four Corners Fair Trade Store

Black Gold ( a documentary that shows the cost behind the cost of our 2^nd largest import, coffee)

Blue Gold (a film about future world water wars)

Chocolate Country (a documentary about a group of cacao farmers who have a plan to turn the global economic system on its head)

Flow (a film about the global water crisis; about the war between public health and private interests)

Fresh (a documentary about people who are re-inventing our food system—features local farmer Will Allen)

King Korn (an entertaining documentary about how the corn kernel conquered America)

Mardi Gras (a documentary critique of globalization that looks at conditions in a Chinese factory)

Matamoros (a documentary by Sierra Club about the pollution and miserable living conditions of the workers and their families who live in the Mexican border town named Matamoros)

Mt. Meru (an explanation of how the Lutheran churches of Southeastern Wisconsin came to join coffee farmers in Tanzania to market Fair Trade coffee)

Not for Sale (a documentary on the 27 million people who are enslaved today)

Playing for Change (10 songs performed by musicians from around the world)

Stolen Childhoods (a documentary about the exploitation of children as laborers, narrated by Meryl Streep and the children and adults who are concerned about them and their futures)

The Story of Stuff (an entertaining and fast-paced explanation of American consumers and their insatiable appetite for goods: how it came to be and how it is affecting our planet and the quality of our lives)

Voluntary Simplicity Series