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Is Starbucks "The Coffee That Cares?" - Baristas And Coffee Farmers Demand Living Wages - Baristas Demand The Right To Organize - Coffee Farmers Demand Ethiopian Trademarks - Coffee Farmers Demand A Share Of Retail Sales Join Us For A Celebration Of Resistance At The Starbucks Annual Meeting Wednesday, March 21 @ 9 A.M. Marion Oliver Mccaw Hall At The Seattle Center Mercer Street, Between Third And Fourth Avenues Seattle, Washington Want To Learn More? Come To A Screening Of Black Gold And Make Signs Friday March 16th @ 6pm Cascade People's Center 309 Pontius Avenue North Seattle, Washington For more info or to get involved contact organizer Tomer Malchi at 646-753-1167 Baristas At Starbucks Demand Justice In contrast to Starbucks' socially responsible image, Barista Sarah Bender's story illustrates the dark side of its force. When she started in 2004 in Manhattan, she was paid $7.75 an hour; she now earns $10.10. Initially, she got from 20 to 35 hours of work...

The Lawyers' Angle Starbucks fights plan to license famous regional names, but then moves to mollify; both sides take campaign to YouTube By Alexia Garamfalvi Legal Times March 5, 2007 Robert Winter, a senior partner at Arnold & Porter, probably never thought he’d be pushing his client’s point of view on YouTube when he agreed to help the government of Ethiopia protect the intellectual property associated with the names of three of its most famous coffee-growing regions. But last week he defended the country’s initiative to trademark and license the coffee names in a video posted on the site . It was a response to a widely viewed video posted in December by Dub Hay, Starbucks Coffee Co. senior vice president, claiming the trademark and licensing scheme was illegal. “It’s plain silly — there’s nothing illegal at all,” Winter says in a grainy video of him in his office, responding to questions that flash on the screen. The video’s format and typical low-budget YouTube aesthetic ...