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PICKET OF STARBUCKS, EDINBURGH

Saturday, 20 November 2004
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Organizer: Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group and Edinburgh IWW

This picket is being held at Starbucks in solidarity with Starbucks workers in New York, and indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico.

Picket Starbucks, 124 High Street (near the Tron), Edinburgh from 12 noon onwards this Saturday
(the picket may last longer than 2pm, depending how it goes)

Informative leaflets will be distributed and delicious free Zapatista coffee will be served outside Starbucks!

Join the Industrial Workers of the World and Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group in picketing Starbucks. There are so many reasons to do this - the immediate ones are in solidarity with Starbucks workers in New York City who are battling their bosses for the right to organise and to win better conditions, and in solidarity with the Zapatista indigenous movement in Mexico.

Starbucks is a major backer of the greenwash corporate-backed Conservation International who are prominent in efforts to evict indigenous people from the Montes Azules area in Chiapas, Mexico.

Location:
Starbucks, 124 High Street (near the Tron), Edinburgh

Cost: Free (including coffee!)

Directions: on the Royal Mile, in central Edinburgh

URL: http://www.edinchiapas.org.uk www.freewebs.com/edinburghiww