“Demand for coffee can create ecological, economic rift with poorer nations”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/uok-dfc081815.php

I’m not particularly inclined in this direction, but the thought amuses me:  Mormons are so commonly depicted as complacent white capitalists.  How about touting obedience to the Word of Wisdom as an act of revolutionary international economic justice?

In that connection, here’s a little known song by Che Guevara, writing under his pen name of Eliza Snow:

1. In our lovely Deseret,
   Where the Saints of God have met,
   There’s a multitude of children all around.
   They are generous and brave;
   They have precious souls to save;
   They must listen and obey the gospel’s sound.
2. (Chorus)
   Hark! Hark! Hark! ’tis children’s music–
   Children’s voices, oh, how sweet,
   When in innocence and love,
   Like the angels up above,
   They with happy hearts and cheerful faces meet.
3. That the children may live long
   And be beautiful and strong,
   Tea and coffee and tobacco they despise,
   Drink no liquor, and they eat
   But a very little meat;
   They are seeking to be great and good and wise.
4. They should be instructed young
   How to watch and guard the tongue,
   And their tempers train and evil passions bind;
   They should always be polite,
   And treat ev’rybody right,
   And in ev’ry place be affable and kind.
5. They must not forget to pray,
   Night and morning ev’ry day,
   For the Lord to keep them safe from ev’ry ill,
   And assist them to do right,
   That with all their mind and might
   They may love him and may learn to do his will.

Posted from Erfurt, Germany