rioters.bloc - 20, Male, Saskatoon
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Ok well yet another rant. here it goes. so i consider myself to be on the left side of the political spectrum but something about this has been increasingly annoying me and that is the lack of fact found in leftism. Me and a friend have been trying to start a small zine here in toon town that involves actually fact and not just the typical "the enviroments to shit because of globalization and the evil U.S. government" propaganda can be good from time to time and alow's you to think but the point of a zine is a use of information just like a newspaper or a magazine and I'd rather give straight honest facts that people won't give me shit about, though the sad thing is that in our society the fact is that you can't keep screaming its all a corporations fault and you have to from time to time look at the facts, for instance anti-globalizationist continue to ramble on about how starbucks is a horrible business who's only goal is to control the world and make the rich richer and that fair trade is the only way to ruin this horrible corporation, but did you know that fair trade would barley exist if starbucks wasn't around, thats right starbucks the "evil one" is the largest exporter of fair trade goods in the world. and this is the type of fact we would like to use but the sad this is very little people would take us seriously because we are trying to give fact that just happends to support a large corporation, in a scene that has looks towards at least somewhat leftist, anti-corporation politics. so what I'm asking you is do i put the facts in or do i scrap the whole idea of the zine.
 

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xdumbfcksx
08:51pm | Feb 09, '08
xdumbfcksx
starbucks is 100% free trade
rioters.bloc - 20, Male, Saskatoon
09:23pm | Feb 09, '08
actually no its not, aprox 60% of starbucks in canada and the U.S and in some parts of europe you can ask for a cup of fair trade coffee, as well as they sell beans for at home use, the reason why they cant label themselves as a cerified distributer is because the majority or their coffee is supplied through free trade means.
xdumbfcksx
09:41pm | Feb 09, '08
xdumbfcksx
word, everything i've seen in there had labels that said "100% free trade" but ive only ever been in there once. but i've only ever been in there once. i tend to avoid it because i dont drink coffee.
rioters.bloc - 20, Male, Saskatoon
09:44pm | Feb 09, '08
yea, the they have to do that cause in order to sell both free and fair trade they have to label each accordingly and most likely in a saskatoon shop you wouldn't see alot of the fair trade stuff, with the exeption of the one by the UofS who sell both fair trade and organic beens
xdumbfcksx
09:45pm | Feb 09, '08
xdumbfcksx
i think the i heard one on campus is unionized, too.
rioters.bloc - 20, Male, Saskatoon
09:48pm | Feb 09, '08
possibly though, theres a coffee shop called browsers that sells starbucks coffee and they might be but im not sure ill have to check it out
rioters.bloc - 20, Male, Saskatoon
09:29pm | Feb 09, '08
this is a quote from transfair usa. "Since launching {their} FTC coffee line in 2000, Starbucks has undeniably made a significant contribution to family farmers through their rapidly growing FTC coffee volume. By offering FTC coffee in thousands of stores, Starbucks has also given the FTC label greater visibility, helping to raise consumer awareness in the process."

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