• Starbucks Campaign Related Articles
• Background Information About These Issues
• Field Updates From Leafleting Events Around the World
• Fair Trade/ Organic Coffee Links

Starbucks Campaign Related Articles:

12,6 - Over 50 Cities Take Part in Fair Trade Day of Action
11, 29 - ACTION ALERT-Nationwide Day of Action Against Folgers-Dec. 15
11, 20 - Starbucks Rejects Genetically Engineered Coffee
11, 12 - FAIR TRADE COFFEE DAY OF ACTION DECEMBER 8, 2001
11,12 - Dow Jones Looks at Fair Trade
11,7 - Newsweek on Fairtrade Coffee
11,5 - Coffee Crisis Leads to More Drug Crops
10, 31 - Fair Trade Movement on Both Sides of the Atlantic
10, 28 - For Coffee Traders, Distasters Come In Pairs
10, 22 - Starbucks Fair Trade Improvements- Close but no cigar
10,20 - Action Alert- Humanitarian aid for those suffering in Nicaragua
10,15 - Organic Yogurt Offered in Starbucks Stores
10,1 - Starbucks Angers Nation's Newspapers
9,30 - Coffee Glut and Drought Hit Nicaragua
9,27 - A Few Field Updates from Starbucks Global Week of Action
9,27 - Coffee Crisis Affects Nicaragua Elections
9,25 - Starbucks Apologizes for Charging NYC Rescue Workers for Water
9,18 - Associated Press Covers Starbucks Protests
9,17 - Manitoba Covers the Coffee Crisis
9,8 - Starbucks Sued for Allegedly Spiking Their Teas With Ephedrine
9,7 - Support Nicaragua Network's Emergency Aid Drive
9,5 - Starbucks Labor Problems
9,1 - Starbucks Launches Campaign of Corporate Propaganda-Seattle Post
9,1 - Coffee Crisis Causing Domino Effect in Nicaragua-NY Times
8,30 - Jackie Mason on Starbucks- A Little Levity
8,29 - OCA responds to Starbucks Form Letter
8,22 - Starbucks Kills Another Mom and Pop Business
8,17 - Safeway Supermarket Chain Will Sell Organic Coffee
8,12 - 60 Congress Members Petition Starbucks for Fair Trade Coffee
8,10 - US Chocolate Companies Fight "Slave-free" Chocolate labeling
8,9 - Preparations Are Underway for a Global Week of Action Against Starbucks
8,8 - Global Exchange Launches Fair Trade Coffee Tour
8,6 - Coffee Quality Takes a Dive As Farmers Get Paid Less
8,6 - Is the Coffee Industry About to Turn Bitter in the UK?
8,2 - Shadow of Globalization
8,2 - Struggling Kenyan coffee growers wonder where all the money goes
8,2 - Hard Times for Coffee Farmers
8,2 - Low coffee prices spark job losses in El Salvador
8,2 - Exodus of rural coffee workers alarms Nicaragua
8,1 - Starbucks Bows to Mega-Corporate Pressure
7,31 - USA Today-Fair Trade Coffee is Attracting Customers
7,27- Hard Times For Coffee Farmers
7,18 - Starbucks Competitor Provide Fiar Trade Coffee on Rotating Basis
7,13 - Grown in the Shade- Making the Coffee Connection in New Zealand
7,13 - The Big Experiment- A local look at Starbucks Protests
7,11- Images and News from the field
7,6 - OCA Director gives update on most recent meeting with Starbucks
7,6 - Grocery Chain Condems GM Coffee and Support Fair Trade
7,2 - Newsweek- How does Starbucks Profit while Farmers Lose?
6,27 - Associated Press Looks at OCA's Starbucks Campaign
6,27 - New Zealand Starbucks Not Playing Fair
6,25 - Starbucks Begins Responding to Global Protests
6,25 - Slave Trade Chocolate
6,25 - Black Community Slams Starbucks in Seattle
6,20 - Starbucks Won't Resolve Issues With Its Own Employees
6,18 - Starbucks Runs Greenwashing Ad in New York Times
6,13 - Black Community Announces Starbucks Boycott
6,13 - Starbucks Ranked with Infamous Greenwashing Corporations
6,12 - OCA Director Resonds to Starbucks CEO (letter)
6,12 - Starbucks Expected to Feel Heat From International Campaign (press release)
6,12 - OCA Rally Scheduled for Starbucks/World Bank Conference
6,12 - Confrontation Expected at World Bank Conference (press release)
6,8 Campaign Email Alert (please send to everyone you know)
6,8 - Record Low Coffee Prices Cause Border Problems
6,7 - Desert Deaths Due To Low Coffee Prices
6,7 - Fair Trade Would Reduce Smuggling
6,5 - Starbucks Continues to Evade the Truth
6,4 - If it's not Fair Trade, it's Slave Trade
5,31 - Genetically Modified Coffee May Harm Up to 60 Million People
5,30 - Story of a Struggling Coffee Farmer
5,29 - Coffee Giants Make Big Bucks while Growers Face Ruin
5,29 - PR Industry's Slanted Take of Campaign
5,28 - Near-monopoly of retail market a key factor in windfall profits
5,28 - Fair Trade Offers Farmers Better Deal
5,28 - Hard pressed Guatemala coffee farmers demand credit
5,22- Starbucks Needs Fair Trade Coffee of the Day More Than Once
5,21- Fair Trade Coffee Movement is Growing!
5,21 - Income Comparison: Starbucks Tycoon vs. Coffee Plantation worker
5,20 - Coffee Prices Slump, Yet Starbucks Enjoys Strong Profits
5,17 - GM Beans Threaten Millions of Family Farmers' Survival
5,14 - British Boycotts of GM Coffee
5,12 - Food Fights, FDA and Fair Trade
5,9 - Is your chocolate slave-trade or Fair Trade?
5,8 - National Public Radio Looks At Fair Trade Coffee
5,2 - Planning for Starbucks Global Days of Action
4,30 - Starbucks Campaign is Showing Success!!
4,25 - Coffee Farmers' Rights Trampled Upon
4,20 - U.S. Specialty Coffees Expanding
4,19 - Columbia Wants Coffee Destroyed
4,17 - Coffee Farmers Can't Afford a Cup of Their Own Coffee
4,15 - Coffee Prices Drop- Family Farmers Starve
4,13 - Coffee Farmers Send Out SOS
4,9 - Starbucks Campaign Update From OCA Director
4,9 - OCA's latest Starbucks Campaign Email Alert
4,6 - Campaign Diary: 5 days in the life of OCA's Ronnie Cummins
3,19 - *Starbucks Campaign Kickoff
3,19 - *Labor Groups Form Alliance to Take on Starbucks
3,19--*Sierra Club Backs OCA in Starbucks Campaign
3,19--*Starbucks Jaded History
3,19 - Starbucks Employee Leaks Top Secret Memo to OCA
3,19 - Seattle Weekly Takes A Look at the Starbucks Protest
3,19 - AgBiotech Cut Starbucks Campaign
3,18--*Starbucks Reacting to Upcoming Consumer Protests
3,18--*Interview With Starbucks CEO Orin Smith
3,18--*Starbucks CEO Responds to OCA Campaign Letter
3,18--*OCA responds to Organic Coffee Association
2,28--*OCA Letter to the Starbucks CEO

Field Updates from Leafleting Events At
Starbucks Around the World

~Round 1 (March 20, 2001)

~Round 2 (June 25 &26, 2001)

~Round 3 (September 17-27, 2001)

~Streaming video of one of our rallies

~Images from the field