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16 Dec 2006

Author:
Oxfam America

Activists in Seattle Join International Call for Starbucks to Play Fair

Activists from Seattle's Ethiopian community, local group Fair Trade Puget Sound and Oxfam are demonstrating today outside the Westlake Center Starbucks to protest against the company's refusal to recognize the rights of Ethiopian coffee farmers. This is part of a day of action to send a message of solidarity with Ethiopian farmers to the coffee giant. More than 89,000 people in 70 countries have now joined Oxfam's campaign...A press release issued by the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office shortly after a meeting late last month between the Ethiopian Prime Minister and Starbucks CEO acknowledged that while the meeting was an encouraging step, "Starbucks has not yet recognized Ethiopia's trademark ownership of the specialty coffee names…"

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