We are in the midst of constructing our website and will be linking to your coffee special report, in the hopes of spreading the information. We truly did not know it was US AID that was the driving engine. All our coffees are shade grown, in collaboration with community enterprises and village banks. We will be recycling a portion of the revenues to them, with the vision of creating a micro economy.

Keep up the good work!

Cut the Fighter Jet Noise

NO soldier on a front line is "safe" ANYWHERE or in ANYTHING. This woman has no conception for how ferociously deadly the weapons of war are. Yes, there are victims of war, but nobody is innocent. You can choose not to be there even if THAT means death. War itself is an atrocity- if you decide to engage in it, for whatever reason, you must accept what it brings- and accept that you are a perpetrator (as I was during the Vietnam War even though I never fired a shot or even went there. I served, allowed myself to be forced). The point which America seems determined to miss is that wars we continually perpetrate in many areas of the world- whether it be to insure our gluttonous consumption of oil (which Bradley refers to blithely as our "high standard of living") or whether it's to enslave the Salvadoreans in some right-ring capitalists' nightmare- will eventually come back HOME. We cannot inflict violence on the rest of the world and not expect this to come home to roost.

Ms. Bradley seems to think this learning of atrocity comes from somewhere outside American culture, or from some aberrant "evil" within it. I suggest to her that the violence inherent in her article should tell her where it comes from- deep in the intolerant and bigoted ethnocentric American psyche. I thank whatever gods are in MY life that I carry the belief that this attitude will die in this country, and whether that death be an agony or a long slow whimper concerns me little. I prefer to be a part of building constructive communities free from such poisons... maybe we'll be there for the survivors when you all are done fighting and pointing fingers at who corrupted who.

I saw nothing redeeming in the article- just another propagandist aiming at another manufactured bogey-man. If you really want to stop wars, stop thinking as if you're IN one, and start building a society where peace truly has a chance.