Please distribute widely... APRIL 13 NATIONAL FAIR TRADE DAY OF ACTION! DEMAND THAT STARBUCKS GO FAIR TRADE! CONVERGENCE WEEK DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, DC!!! Thursday April 13 - Meet at 10:30 AM at the Starbucks at Dupont Circle, then march and rally at Starbucks at 18th and H Street at 12 Noon--across the street from the World Bank!!! On Thursday, April 13, grassroots activists around the country are rallying to demand that Starbucks sell Fair Trade Certified Coffee. Join the fight for Fair Trade and join us for the DC demonstration. Or participate in demonstrations in 25 other cities. Visit www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee for locations, or contact Deborah James at 415.558.8682 x245 or deborah@globalexchange.org. ---------- The Starbucks Fair Trade Campaign Starbucks is the largest retailer of gourmet coffee in the country, operating a fifth of all cafes nationwide. They say that they "are very supportive of fair-trade coffee" (Wall Street Journal, 11/23/99) but they have yet to offer Fair Trade Certified coffee to their customers! Although they are making millions of dollars in corporate profits ($164 million last year), most farmers who produce the coffee that made them rich are still getting by on poverty wages. Most coffee farmers around the world get as little as $.50 per pound for coffee that retails for up to $10 per pound! Let them know that as the coffee industry leader, they have the responsibility to offer consumers what we want and coffee farmers what they deserve--Fair Trade Certified coffee! Fair Trade means a living wage - a minimum of $1.26 per pound - paid to organized farmer cooperatives - not plantation owners - in 20 countries around the world. We demand that they offer consumers the choice to buy Fair Trade Certified coffee at every one of their 2300 stores nationwide, plus about 500 colleges - permanently (not just as a media stunt!) We demand that they implement their own Code of Conduct to independently monitor that coffee workers are paid a living wage. Please join us in launching a national campaign this April 13 to demand that Starbucks offer its customers the choice to buy Fair Trade Certified coffee. -- Deborah James Fair Trade Director deborah@globalexchange.org 415.255.7296 ext.245 Global Exchange 415.255.7498 fax 2017 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup Get automatic protection and access to your important computer files. Install today: http://click.egroups.com/1/2344/4/_/314851/_/954969916/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: a16-international-planning@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: a16-international-planning-unsubscribe@eGroups.com