Starbucks Day of Action

Campaign update: Starbucks and Ethiopia signed a distribution, marketing and licensing agreement today that ends their trademark dispute and brings them together in partnership to help Ethiopian coffee farmers. International relief and development agency Oxfam welcomes the agreement that has the potential to give farmers a fairer share of the profits for their world-renowned coffee brands, Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe.

The Starbucks Day of Action was a huge success, and Oxfam has you to thank! Thousands of activists, Ethiopian-Americans, and coffee lovers in more than a dozen countries -- from New Zealand to Scotland to the US -- visited Starbucks stores on Saturday, December 16.

For more information Oxfam's work to protect coffee farmers' rights, or to find out how you can get involved, please visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/starbucks

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• starbucks
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• ethiopia
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[uniquelycrazyful]

i saw this video and im impressed but i still love starbucks because the coffee and pastries are soo good!!

[pedrocamanho]

Cuz unsustanable, non-fair trade non organic coffee is EVIL! thus You are part of the DARK SIDE if you support it.

[QUGRRL]

NO, actually, you are incorrect. When you take the time to understand trade issues- that YOU and all of us contribute to, then you should come back and post... Read the paper. Get with it. And good luck.

[QUGRRL]

You need to read up on this issue and understand the facts-as you clearly don't from reading this. And btw, they SHOULD have Medical Insurance, EVERYONE SHOULD.

[justforeignpolicy]

I'm really glad somebody took a stand and did this.

[decafeine]

Swooncore... where the hell do you live where coffee costs $5/cup? Really?

In Canada, a venti coffee (20oz) costs $2.23 (CAD). Most of that goes to the employees and in case you didn't know, all starbucks employees do in fact get benefits! By the way, it's not possible that each cup costs less than one cent to produce. The electricity alone to brew the coffee already trumps that theory. Nice try though.

[angeili]

starbucks espresso ("5 dollar") cup of coffee is not even made with african coffees. get your facts straight, moron. the coffee they are talking about sells for about 1.50 per cup.

[angeili]

and one starbucks store sells about 500 cups a day. there are about 12000 stores. you do the math.

[djcoral]

If I should stop drinking starbucks coffee because they are only giving $.03/cup, then I guess I'd better stop eating any of the food that is in our supermarkets, resturaunts, etc, because our own govt is pratically raping our own farmers with absolutely no remorse, let alone benefits.

[PY1ER]

how about they just sell cheap coffe for people who arent fortunate enough to buy thier yuppie coffee?