Off-subject?? A little, unless you consider it in light of our recent Starbucks coffee composting conversations, or want to support organics, fair trade practices.
Karen Wagner Community Garden/ Farmers' Mkt Confed. Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Pendleton, OR -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OH National Call In Day Against Starbucks, Tues. March 25 We realize you may be focusing your efforts and energy on stopping the war against Iraq, but it's also important that we continue to campaign for social justice around the world. **National Call In Day Against Starbucks, Tuesday March 25, 2003 on the day of Starbucks Annual Shareholders Meeting** Join the Organic Consumers Association, Global Exchange, the Community Alliance for Global Justice and other social justice, environmental, and food activists in a "virtual march" on Starbucks to change their company policies by actively promoting Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate in all of their stores and removing Genetically Engineered ingredients from their food and dairy products. PLEASE CALL, FAX, EMAIL OR WRITE STARBUCKS ON MARCH 25! Call Toll Free: 1-800-235-2883 Write: Orin Smith, CEO Starbucks PO Box 34067 Seattle, WA 98124-1067 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a free fax from our website at http://www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/downloads.cfm Tell Starbucks: *They need to stop serving GE ingredients including rBGH in their dairy products, in all of their 6,000 cafes. *They need to brew Fair Trade coffee in all of their cafes at least once a week. *They need to make sure all their coffee growers are receiving a fair wage for the coffee they grow. For more info or to get involved in this or any of our other campaigns please contact: Connie Minowa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 1-888-403-1007 Ange Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 1-206-329-0206 or visit our website at www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/ BACKGROUND: In the past two years thousands of activists in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Israel and England have protested and leafleted outside of hundreds of Starbucks cafes in what continues to be the largest grassroots campaign of its kind focusing on fair trade and genetic engineering. Our volunteers have now handed out a quarter of a million leaflets to Starbucks customers and we have educated many millions more through the numerous media stories the campaign has generated. Starbucks says they are a socially responsible company, they need to prove it! We are calling on Starbucks to brew Fair Trade Coffee weekly; provide clear evidence that they are in compliance with their previous promise to improve the wages, working conditions, and lives of the people who grow and harvest the coffee they buy; and remove GE ingredients from their products. Connie Minowa Field Organizer Organic Consumers Association 1-888-403-1007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.organicconsumers.org Campaigning for food safety, organic agriculture, sustainability, and fair trade To subscribe to the free monthly newsletter, BioDemocracy News, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in the subject or body of the email PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED. ========================================================== You may review your subscription information with the OCA http://www.organicconsumers.org/update.htm You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if you forgot your password, there is a link to retrieve it). You can then update your listing and select the type(s) of OCA activities that interest you (or unsubscribe). ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
