David Lalonde

Still can’t confirm if the tariffs on coffee are eliminated or reduced, nor if I can ship now as a Canadian roaster! Help ‼️ 😮‍💨😅

The ability to work at or go to a cafe freely is apparently not granted to Pālestin1ans.
Where is the outrage from the specialty coffee industry?
And where is the coffee media at??
#specialtycoffee #coffeesky #coffee #freepelestine

This also explains why so many coffee pros are Z1øs or collaborators: the genøc1de in Palęst1ne is enacted by white people and the ones who suffer are brown.
#freepalestine

We have to switch our extractive mindset that aims to enrich the colonial core and find ways to benefit what is labeled as the periphery. 3/4
#decolonize

We accept their poor material condition as a necessary part of keeping our specialty, global North businesses thriving. 2/4

Specialty coffee has been built on colonial systems of exploitation. No wonder so many coffee people are rāc1sts or apologists: black and brown farmers, just like the coffee we need, have been commodified, and their struggles have been normalized. 1/4
#specialtycoffee #coffee #coffeesky

Pālēst1nian journalist Bayan Abusultan survived an Israhelli airstrike while working in a cafe in Gāzā today.
Think about that the next time you work from a coffee shop.
The fact that some specialty coffee people still defend and collab with Z1øs is wild.
#specialtycoffee #freepalestine

"Carbon Neutral" Coffee: Climate Accountability or Marketing Spin? The coffee industry creates emissions and carbon offsets won't save us.

PSA to all the carbon neutral coffee companies:

Carbon neutrality is a scam invented by and for global North businesses so they can have a clean conscience, a marketing scheme to sell more [coffee].

Here’s a great read:
www.thepourover.coffee/carbon-neutr...

#specialtycoffee #greenwashing #coffee

Pleasure was mine 💛 ☕️

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Thank you @thepourover.coffee 🙌🏻

So much mischief,
but I’ll be brief:
I dream of the day,
not so far away,
When Palestine will be free.

And I’ll go, just to drink a coffee.
Under the shade of an olive tree.

#freepalestine #specialtycoffee #coffeesky

I just launched a small initiative to raise money for the Sameer Project. Go check the pinned post on my IG.
#coffeesky #specialtycoffee #freepalestine

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How about specialty coffee people start focusing more on wealth redistribution rather than on particule size distribution?
#specialtycoffee #coffeegear #coffeesky

I often talk about women and children being bombed to bits, and as a father and husband, I’ve shed many tears for them.

I wish specialty coffee people would use their voices, and engage their platforms and businesses for more than gear and gesha.
#specialtycoffee

I want to use this opportunity to praise Palestinian men.
They are kind courageous, dedicated, resilient, smart, funny, beautiful. And they’ve showed me how to be fiercely loving.
#freepalestine #coffee

"Imagine putting fair trade, organic certification and other stickers on bags to show the good you are doing without explaining it’s all marketing and cover the farmers costs".

"It takes tens of thousands of US dollars for an individual to prepare for and possibly win USBC and especially for WBC 😇"

"That’d be really funny if several successful, third-wave-specialty-sustainable-transparent-producer-focused coffee roasteries created products containing cheap, big-lot coffees that make majority of their sales!"

"Imagine and industry where gear reviewers would earn more every month than a producing family earn every year, that would be crazy right?"🫠

"How about when the industry declares a price crisis every 10 years but changes nothing about the pricing or market dynamics".

On April 1st, I did an Instagram post where I asked people:
Tell me a coffee fact that feels like a joke, but isn’t.
Here are the best ones: a thread 🧵
#specialtycoffee #coffeesky

I’m drinking a sweet coffee and thinking about how I can’t wait for the fall of Israhell.
What about ya’ll?
#specialtycoffee #freepalestine

One of the biggest shortcoming of specialty coffee people in the Global North is that they rarely go beyond the learning stage, forever repeating errors of the past to maintain a status quo they benefit from.
#specialtycoffee #coffeesky

What’s the point in learning about coffee’s history and oppressive systems if we don’t use what we learn to better the industry?
#specialtycoffee #coffeepeople #coffeelife #coffeesky

Specialty coffee people will just ignore this image like it’s nothing and go watch the latest Water For Coffee Video by one of the coffee bros.

Who cares about the birthplace of coffee culture being bombed for trying to stop a genøcǐd€… #specialtycoffee #yemen

I just saw children and women being catapulted 100M in the air after a bomb hit them, all while we debate when coffee will be cheaper, if it should be cheaper or if tariffs will make our profits less big.
Ok.
#specialtycoffee #freepalestine

The James Hoffman one was specifically stupid, like he hasn’t benefited immensely from all the jokes he made in the past. (Not even mentioning all the expensive gear he displayed while doing so)

All the coffee people who made Parody of coffee trends on April Fools are the ones who started these trends in the first place. #coffeesky #specialtycoffee

Too bad Palestinian babies aren’t the right shade of child. #whiteness

Remember when all #specialtycoffee people came together to help Ukraine? Where are all these people now?