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By Awate Team - Nov 09, 2006   

Thanks to Shlomo Bachrach (staff 66-68), contributing editor of The Herald, we have learned of the campaign that Oxfam has launched to pressure Starbucks to treat Ethiopia more fairly when buying coffee. You can read a recent article about the issue below.
 
Would you please go to this Oxfam page will enable you to send a letter to Starbucks urging them sign a licensing agreement that will allow Ethiopia to control the names of its coffees?
 

Oxfam has a draft of a letter you can send as is, edit it or replace it with any text you prefer.

I would also like to urge you to share this message with those on your mailing list and ask for their support as well.

Thanks,
Marian

Awate Editor: The above was forwarded to us by Shirley, a dear friend who lives in Seattle. We urge the people of the Horn of Africa, especially the tens of thousands who live in the West, to join this campaign.  to get more information about the issue, visit the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1931675,00.html#article_continue
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We have taken the liberty of copying the Starbucks Jimma graphics from Seleda.com's Irony & Platitude issue. We don't think the administrators of the website will sue us because, having been sleeping since April 2004, there is no reason to believe they will wake up soon:-) The classic "Starbucks Jimma" graphic is by Ephrem M. Girma: Blen Graphics.  (No irony or platitude intended by the word "classic.")
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