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Brazilian Fairtrade Coffee Farmers

—Cupping Great Brazils

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This is the coffee cuppers song, the ebb and flow, the slurp and spit. Sensory notes and subtle overtones. Yesterday at the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s annual conference, the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA), SEBRAE and Carmo Coffees teamed up with Fairtrade Regional Coordinator Catalina Jaramillo and Fairtrade farmers to hold a cupping session to show off winners of a Fairtrade quality contest that took place early in the year. This is just a small sample of the action.

Border Patrol Confrontation Videos Go Viral

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By CRISTINA COSTANTINI

Thanks to YouTube, there’s one thing that both Tea Partiers and Latino civil rights advocates are getting behind.

In the endless repository that is this video hub, there are hundreds of clips, which together have garnered millions of views, of Americans of all ethnicities refusing to comply with inland immigration checks. These checks are conducted by border patrol agents, but it turns out plenty of people think the suspicionless stops are in violation of their constitutional rights.

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natgeofound: Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

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Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

motherjones: While working on an assignment to capture how people made use of the streets in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena discovered an unusual perspective on commuting. We love this photo essay. (Photo by Alejandro Cartagena)

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While working on an assignment to capture how people made use of the streets in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena discovered an unusual perspective on commuting.

We love this photo essay.

(Photo by Alejandro Cartagena)

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Yo La Tengo has been making worship-worthy music for more than 20 years. Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew performed some of the best songs from their new album, Fade, live on KEXP, including this gorgeous rendition of “I’ll Be Around.”

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