UUWorld: Fair Trade coffee gives congregations a lift

Social justice groups at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, had a good reason for joining the Fair Trade coffee project last March. Charlie Clements, the new UUSC president, was coming to visit. "We'd been talking for a year or more about Fair Trade coffee," said Walt Wells, local UUSC representative. "We decided we wanted to have it in place when Charlie came." All Souls members have been willing to pay the higher price, Wells said. "They know that it supports human rights."