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Policy Innovations' article says it all:

"If you consider yourself a good global citizen, Starbucks Coffee could be keeping you up at night—and it might not be the caffeine. " Sleepless from Seattle tells the stories of many in Settle and all over the globe on this eve of December 16.

Tomorrow is Starbucks Day of Action day, when we will join thousands of activists across the globe to let the public know about the coffee trademark dispute.

Starbucks employees and consumers need to know more about Ethiopia's demand to own its own coffee names. It does not really make sense that the country asks Starbucks' permission to be the owner of it's own name. But that is the question; you may be told one day that you do not own what you have always thought you do.

We will do our best to let Starbucks employees know the facts buried underneath the company's press releases. Starbucks' CEO, Jim Donald told them that he can’t talk about the details because he does not understand them; we will tell them what we know - it is for Ethiopians to decide what is good for them.

So, what do we do tomorrow? I will report back what I find out. One thing I know for sure now is that I will stay up thiniking about what I can do tomorrow.

To see what you can do, click here.

See you at Starbucks!



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