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YES ON O! Ethical coffee initiative: Video of Protests at Starbuck's and Peet's,Berkeley
A small but spirited group of demonstrators dressed as coffee farmers and accompanied by two Donkeys carrying large burlap sacks of coffee walked the streets of Berkeley protesting Starbuck's and Peet's large contributions to a dishonest campaign against Measure O, the ethical and responsible coffee initiative in Berkeley on the Monday before election day, November 4, 2002.
A small but spirited group of demonstrators dressed as coffee farmers and accompanied by two Donkeys carrying large burlap sacks of coffee walked the streets of Berkeley protesting Starbuck's and Peet's large contributions to a dishonest campaign against Measure O, the ethical and responsible coffee initiative in Berkeley on the Monday before election day, November 4, 2002.
This video was originally posted with a write-up in the following story:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1541374.php
Discussion has already ensued there.
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This video was originally posted with a write-up in the following story:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1541374.php
Discussion has already ensued there.
It is reposted so it will be classified as a video story, not a JPG story. Please continue to post follow-ups there, not here. Thanks.
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http://www.globalexchange.org/coffee
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70-30. Your fascist coffee initiative goes down in flames.
70-30. Your fascist coffee initiative goes down in flames.
70-30. Your fascist coffee initiative goes down in flames.
The real element of fascism here is the fact that the "democratic" system of voting is so abused that people did not understand this initiative, and were scared into voting against it. It's really not a surprise. So, we all lose in that sense. But the courageous and visionary group which sought to liberate millions of farmers and millions of square kilometers of rainforest starting with a stand here in Berekeley did not "lose", it isn't their persons which are invested, it's the interest of social and environmental justice throughout the world which lost.
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Please add comments to the original story. Or can't you read? That's probably why you're against prop O, you just looked at the pictures (but not the video).
The original story is located here:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1541374
learn to live!
thanks.
IN THE FUTURE
Please add comments to the original story. Or can't you read? That's probably why you're against prop O, you just looked at the pictures (but not the video).
The original story is located here:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1541374
learn to live!
thanks.
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