Conscience Consumers Support Zapatista Coffee - Buy your membership today!
Café Para La Vida Digna (CPLVD) is launching a new autonomous economy plan called Community Supported Zapatista Coffee (CSZ), to allow politically aware conscious consumers to participate directly in supporting a Zapatista coffee project that builds self sufficiency and autonomous economy.
Zapatista coffee producers who harvest the coffee from the trees will be more connected to the conscious consumers who support them through the new CSZ. With the purchase of a CSZ Membership, conscious consumers will be securing their coffee supply for the year while also helping to grow the coffee cooperative in this time of need. The CPLVD Cooperative is making a collective effort to grow the project without taking loans from corporate banks, keeping us free from the chains of credit.
This project, now in its fifth year, is in critical need of growing its support base in order to become self sufficient. In a time when we are improving processes like starting our own mill for cleaning and sorting the beans, we are also faced with hard realities like weather. The climate this past year has harvest projections way down, leaving demand for coffee higher, which means prices are higher. Although this is great for the local Fair Trade price, it also means less coffee was harvested per family and in order to secure the same amount of coffee, we will need more money up front to pay the producers.
The hopes and dreams of the CPLVD Cooperative are to sustain its autonomous Education and Medical projects through their own local forms of production and the CSZ is one very important way to create a strong autonomous economy which this community critically needs.
How the Membership Works
Once a conscious consumer purchases an annual membership for 6, 12, or 24 pounds, they can pick up their coffee once a month at one of our approved locations using coupons that will be sent with membership materials.
If a member does not live near a pick up location, they can choose to have their coffee mailed directly to them (postage will be invoiced to the member).
Additional pick up locations can be created based on sales in a particular area. For example, we currently do not have sales in Anchorage, Alaska. But if a number of people were to order coffee from Anchorage, we would begin looking at creating a pick up location in that area. This will help to minimize shipping costs to the member.
Because there is a limited amount of coffee for memberships available, we highly encourage everyone to secure their coffee by joining today.
and after many hours of discussion we agreed that together we would make a good and honest effort to build a coffee project to support the education and medical needs of the Autonomous Municipality Ricardo Flores Magon. In order to do this work in a good way, we made agreements on how this project would define its principles, processes and commitments. Below are our Palabras. 
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