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A Coffee Crusade

By: Theodore Isaac Erski
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  • Bridget Hall is a driven & successful entrepreneur running a non-profit company named the Coffee Exchange Alliance. She’s working to establish a fair-trade business presence on the Caribbean island of Salavandra, but must overcome the corrupt Minister of Agriculture, Rafael Gallegos, who profits by marginalizing the island’s farmers and smuggling their coffee to Jamaica. Bridget tackles personal & professional challenges on Salavandra that ultimately shake her belief in the choices she’s made in life as well as in her self-appointed role as savior of the island’s coffee farmers.
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  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 1

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 1
    Jun 4 2009
    Ethan McCray, a representative of The Coffee Exchange Alliance (CEA), is aboard the Cassiopeia in the Caribbean Sea. He is smuggling coffee from the island of Salavandra with Christopher Knox, the skipper. Evil plans hatch before the boat ever reaches Kingston.
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    39 mins
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 2
    Jun 4 2009
    Bridget Hall, Founder and President of CEA, is “cupping” coffees at her roasting facility in Brooklyn. She discusses her organization’s alternative trade strategies with her executive team. Later she meets Anthony Scopes of Integrated Foods—a massive food conglomerate. Scopes buys coffee for Ishmael’s Coffees, a consumer-end subsidiary of Integrated Foods.
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    43 mins
  • A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3

    A Coffee Crusade, Chapter 3
    Jun 4 2009
    Luis Florentino, the CEA liaison, is on Salavandra’s Encarnacion Peninsula where his sister’s family cultivates high-quality Arabica coffee. He hikes overland to his home near Amadica to meet Bridget. She lands in Salavandra’s airport and encounters rough treatment at the hands of the island’s Federal soldiers. She comes face-to-face with Salavandra’s Minister of Agriculture, Raphael Gallegos.
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    38 mins
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