Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino (book signing event)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dclabor.org/ht/display/EventDetails/i/74687

Where
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, President's Room

Map
Click here for map

When
Dec 05 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

The AFL-CIO hosts a book discussion with Kim Fellner, of Working America, on her new book Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Click here to download an event flyer.

About the Book
As a longtime labor and community organizer, Kim Fellner has spent her life fighting corporate abuse. But when fellow demonstrators at the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” smashed in the window of a Starbucks store, she couldn’t escape the feeling that something was wrong with the picture. How had a coffee company with a liberal reputation come to engender such hostility?

Fellner decided to find out. She interviewed global justice and union activists, baristas, independent coffee shop owners, coffee farmers and a dozen Starbucks executives, including CEO Howard Schultz. Along the way, she encountered some unexpected insights, not just about the Green Mermaid, but about how we on the left choose our fights and frame our issues.

Wrestling With Starbucks invites us to reflect on how we define and practice our values in the global economy from the vantage point of our morning brew - and presents a refreshingly different look at the company that changed the way the world drinks coffee.

[Omaha Steve]

1. It's on Amazon btw

http://www.amazon.com/Wrestling-Starbucks-Conscience-Capital-Cappuccino/dp/0813543207

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