February 2011 Recommenda ons: Fair Trade

February
2011
Recommenda2ons:
Fair
Trade
Shopping,
Books
&
Films
Featured
Program:
PINCC,
El
Salvador
This
Month’s
Recommenda2ons:
♀
Fair
Trade
Shopping
♀
Books
♀
Videos
&
Films
Fair
Trade
Shopping
Our
thanks
to
Carolyn
Mayers
for
Fair
Trade
Shopping
Recommenda<ons
Shade
grown
organic,
fair
trade
coffee
http://www.motherearthcoffeeco.com/
Sustainable
and
organic
agricultural
practices
protect
the
rain
forests
and
enhance
the
land
and
the
lives
of
the
coffee
growers.
Looking
forward
to
summer?
How
about
a
hammock
crafted
from
t‐shirt
factory
waste?
http://www.globalexchangestore.org/Hammock‐p/esms‐ham.htm
Hand‐painted
boxes,
etc.
http://www.peopleoAhopecrafts.org/products.php?cat=11
More
hand‐painted,
very
pretty
boxes,
and
cute
pencil
boxes
for
kids
http://www.oneworldprojects.com/products/el‐salvador‐wood.shtml
Books
Fic2on
The
Weight
of
All
Things
by
Sandra
Benitez
Set
in
El
Salvador
during
the
civil
war
of
the
1980s,
Benitez's
third
novel
seamlessly
blends
fact
with
imagination,
evoking
the
trauma
of
war
more
vividly
than
any
newspaper
account
.
.
.
Those
who
seek
a
deeper
understanding
of
Latin
American
conAlict.
.
.
will
Aind
the
novel
especially
gratifying.
(Publisher’s
Weekly).
Nonfic2on
Salvador
by
Joan
Didion
In
late
1982
the
novelist
Joan
Didion
spent
two
weeks
in
El
Salvador
at
the
ghastly
height
of
its
civil
war.
Didion
delivers
an
anatomy
of
that
country's
particular
brand
of
terror–its
mechanisms,
rationales,
and
intimate
relation
to
United
States
foreign
policy
from
battleAields
to
body
dumps,
interviews
a
puppet
president,
and
considers
the
distinctly
Salvadoran
grammar
of
the
verb
"to
disappear."
‐‐From
the
publisher.
From
Grandmother
to
Granddaughter:
Salvadoran
Women's
Stories
by
Michael
Gorkin
Gorkin,
an
American
psychologist,
teamed
with
two
Salvadoran
women
psychologists
in
2000
to
explore
the
life
histories
of
three
generations
of
women
in
El
Salvador.
Their
recollections
of
childhood,
courtship,
marriage,
and
child
rearing
are
conveyed
against
the
backdrop
of
the
social
upheaval
of
El
Salvador's
12‐year
civil
war
that
ended
in
1992.
The
subjects‐‐grandmother,
mother,
and
granddaughter‐‐reAlect
the
range
of
Salvadoran
social
and
economic
strata.
‐‐Booklist
Films
&
Videos
PINCC:
STOPPING
CERVICAL
CANCER
IN
CENTRAL
AMERICA
h6p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zE5wNZBlE
Prevention
International:
No
Cervical
Cancer
(see
www.PINCC.org)
trains
doctors
and
nurses
in
developing
countries
in
a
simple
screening
method
to
see
and
treat
the
precursors
to
cervical
cancer
‐‐
the
leading
cancer
killer
of
women
in
the
developing
world.
This
video
is
all
about
PINCC
and
its
program
in
Central
America.
PINCC
also
operates
in
Africa
and
India.
Return
to
El
Salvador
is
an
intimate
documentary
that
tells—mainly
through
candid
interview—the
story
of
the
individuals
and
communities
effected
by
El
Salvador’s
brutal
civil
war
that
ended
nearly
two
decades
ago.
Return
to
El
Salvador,
narrated
by
Martin
Sheen,
is
the
latest
documentary
from
director
Jamie
Moffett,
who
explores
the
reconstruction
of
El
Salvador,
post‐civil
war.
Released
January
2010.
http://www.returntoelsalvador.com/about
Salvador.
1986
war
drama
Ailm
which
tells
the
story
of
an
American
journalist
in
El
Salvador
covering
the
Salvadoran
civil
war.
The
Ailm,
written
by
Oliver
Stone
and
Richard
Boyle,
was
directed
by
Stone.
Stone's
portrayal
is
sympathetic
towards
the
left
wing
peasant
revolutionaries,
but
deplores
their
killing
of
prisoners
in
a
crucial
scene.
He
is
strongly
critical
towards
the
U.S.‐supported
right
wing
military
and
the
allied
death
squads,
focusing
on
their
assassination
of
four
American
churchwomen,
including
Jean
Donovan.
Stone's
portrayal
of
the
Catholic
Church
as
a
force
for
justice
reAlects
events
of
the
time,
exempliAied
in
the
political
sermon
of
Archbishop
Óscar
Romero,
which
is
based
almost
word‐for‐word
on
the
speech
Romero
made
before
he
was
assassinated
by
a
death
squad.
The
Ailm
was
nominated
for
two
Academy
Awards:
Best
Actor
in
a
Leading
Role
(Woods)
and
Best
Writing,
Screenplay
Written
Directly
for
the
Screen
(Stone
and
Boyle).
‐‐Wikipedia.
Innocent
Voices
Voces
Innocentes. 2004 film about a
young
boy,
in
an
effort
to
have
a
normal
childhood
in
1980's
El
Salvador,
caught
up
in
a
dramatic
Aight
for
his
life
as
he
desperately
tries
to
avoid
the
war
which
is
raging
all
around
him.
Scars
of
Memory:
An
oral
history
of
the
1932
massacre
of
10,000
El
Salvadorans,
a
trauma
that
has
resonated
through
six
decades
of
military
rule,
until
the
1992
peace
accords
ended
a
brutal,
12‐year
civil
war.
(2002).