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John,
This is huge. A damning report just exposed brutal forced labour
conditions on coffee plantations in Brazil – producing beans that may end
up in your cup of coffee from Starbucks, Nestlé, or McDonald’s.
Workers are trapped, exploited, and abused, all so these mega-brands can
keep raking in billions. It’s modern-day slavery, and they’ve known about
it for years.
Now, they’ve been caught once again, giving us a narrow window to act
while the world is watching. Outrage is growing, the media’s paying
attention, and if we go big – fast – we can force these brands to stop
profiting from slavery.
Our team is quickly gearing up to turn up the heat with smart tactics
like calling out these coffee giants in the media and on billboards
outside their headquarters, hiring coffee influencers to get the word out,
and supporting groundbreaking lawsuits against these companies. With all
of us chipping in just a little we could get started right away and keep
powering the fight against horrific corporate abuse.
Can you chip in today to stop corporate giants profiting from
exploitation?
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Brazil is the biggest coffee producer in the world, supplying over 35% of
the world’s coffee. Modern slavery and forced labour are still a brutal
reality on these coffee plantations, where workers are subjected to unsafe
and abusive conditions for little or no pay – and with no way out.
For DECADES, coffee giants like Starbucks have known about this widespread
trafficking and modern-day slavery and decided to profit off it anyway.
That stops now.
First, our partners at Coffee Watch released a new report exposing the
slave-like conditions workers face. Then, last week, two different groups
took legal action. Eight Brazilian workers filed a lawsuit against
Starbucks for the harm they’ve suffered, followed by a complaint demanding
the U.S. government stop allowing imports of coffee produced with forced
labour.
It’s all over the media, but to push Starbucks and other coffee giants to
act, we need to make it even bigger.
Our team has a watertight plan to expose the horrors that Starbucks,
Nestlé, and McDonald’s are fueling, plastering this scandal over
billboards, taking out ads, and powering the legal fight to help victims
win justice. Now we just need to raise the funds to pay for it, then keep
going to beat horrific corporate abuse everywhere.
Can you chip in to help?
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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.
Thanks for all that you do,
Allison and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Forced Labor Taints Brazilian Coffee, Say Complaints to U.S.
Authorities The New York Times 24 April 2025
[ [link removed] ]Stop Slavery-Tainted Coffee at the Border Coffee Watch 23 April 2025
[ [link removed] ]‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks
over ‘slavery-like conditions’ The Guardian 24 April 2025
Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
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