Hi John,

Will you add your signature to our coffee workers rights petition?

[ [link removed] ]Tell Starbucks to stop coffee slavery!

We’ve run impactful Starbucks campaigns before, and I know that the
company can be moved with public pressure. When 100,000 of us have signed,
we can deliver the petition to Starbucks' new CEO where he can’t ignore
it:

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



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[ [link removed] ]It’s almost 2024, and the world’s largest coffeehouse chain is still
linked to slavery. (Image: Collage of worker's hand in a coffee cup)

Starbucks-certified coffee farms in Brazil were caught again violating
human rights!

Tell Starbucks to stop coffee slavery:


[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Starbucks-certified coffee farms in Brazil were caught again violating
human rights, a recent report reveals.

While no certification system is perfect, experts have said for years that
Starbucks’ verification program–C.A.F.E. Practices–could be improved by
adopting international fair trade standards, and by including truly
surprise inspections to stop abuses.

Starbucks has a new CEO, Laxman Narasimhan. If we raise our voices now, we
can put him on the spot while that report from Brazil is still ringing in
his ears. Let’s get him to use Starbucks’ enormous purchasing power for
good. When 100,000 of us have signed, we’ll deliver the petition to him
where he can’t ignore it:

[ [link removed] ]Tell Starbucks to stop coffee slavery.

Three years ago, The Guardian reported that children as young as eight
picked coffee beans on farms in Guatemala supplying Starbucks. Now
Repórter Brazil’s report “Behind Starbucks Coffee” shows that the
company’s supply-chain is still stained with rights abuses.

Brazilian officials, for example, rescued 17 workers from modern slavery
at a coffee farm in Campos Altos, in August 2022. They included a
15-year-old girl and two boys aged 16 and 17, who were forced to do
backbreaking work in the blistering sun.

Starbucks’ suppliers have brushed off child labour exposés that they
couldn’t deny as simply human resources “mistakes”, while the US
coffeehouse chain claims to have “zero tolerance” for such abuse anywhere
in its supplychain. And still the human rights violations continue…

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to Starbucks CEO, Laxman Narasimhan.

We’ve delivered impactful petitions to Starbucks before, and we know that
the company can be moved with public pressure exposing its dirty secrets.
Our community helped make Starbucks improve its palm oil sourcing policy
in 2016, and in 2018 we exposed the company’s unmet promise to deal with
the mountain of its throw-away cups.

It’s almost 2024, and the world’s largest coffeehouse chain is still
linked to slavery. This has to stop.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin, Vanessa and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Report: Behind Starbucks Coffee Repórter Brazil. 1 November 2023.
[ [link removed] ]Children as young as eight picked coffee beans on farms supplying
Starbucks The Guardian. 1 March 2020.
[ [link removed] ]Fairtrade standard for coffee Fairtrade International. 15 July 2021.

 

 

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