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<P>Hi</P>
<P>West Midlands Anarchists recently did a spate of leafleting of Starbucks workers / cutomers including at the outlet in New Street. We drew peopl's attention to how the company has gone out of its way to attack Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members who have started to establish the Starbucks Worker's Union...leaflets about the companies record of how it treats it own staff can be found on the IWW website.</P>
<P>Cheers Rich <BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Mike D" <mike-d@riseup.net></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>mike-d@riseup.net</I><BR>To: <I>brum_fnb@lists.riseup.net, noborders-brum@lists.aktivix.org,wmainternal@lists.riseup.net, scbrum@lists.riseup.net</I><BR>Subject: <I>[scbrum] Protest against Starbucks - Next Saturday 21st October</I><BR>Date: <I>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:14:03 +0100 (BST)</I><BR>>Hello everyone,<BR>><BR>>Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign invites you to a protest against<BR>>Starbucks on New Street in Birmingham City Centre next Saturday<BR>>starting at 1.00pm.<BR>><BR>>Starbucks claim to be a company who "operate their business in a<BR>>socially responsible way", "expect our business partners to do the<BR>>same", and have been "working to create a robust Human Rights<BR>>policy".<BR>><BR>>Which is why they have opened
a branch of Starbucks at the<BR>>Guantanamo Bay base to keep US military personnel wide awake and<BR>>fuelled with cinammon pastries while they eye-gouge prisoners and<BR>>pepper spray them in the face.<BR>><BR>>The US government have recently asked the British government for the<BR>>nine British resident detainees to be returned to the UK. They have<BR>>been held for many years without trial in Guantanamo Bay and there<BR>>is ample evidence of torture at the hands of US military personnel.<BR>>The British government is refusing the return of the detainees to be<BR>>reunited with their families in Britain on the grounds that the<BR>>required security measures the US government have requested are<BR>>unnecessary and unworkable.<BR>><BR>>If an agreement cannot be reached it is likely that the detainees<BR>>will be returned to their countries of
origin where they are likely<BR>>to face further torture and ill-treatment.<BR>><BR>>The protest is to raise awareness of the torture and injustice<BR>>subjected to these nine people who have strong ties to the UK, and<BR>>to let as many Starbucks customers (or potential customers) know<BR>>what the company is complicit in.<BR>><BR>>Get as many people as you can to come down and take part in losing<BR>>Starbucks as many customers as possible!<BR>><BR>><BR>>Mike<BR>><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>