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The Starbucks paradox: the favorite target of WTO protesters is actually far more diverse than the American anti-globalization movement. Kim Fellner looks into the contradictions of coffee, class, and race.(action)(World Trade Organization)
It was November 1999 in Seattle and the U.S. global justice movement had taken to the streets. Suddenly, there was a crash not 20 feet from where I stood, and the Starbucks window collapsed in a hail of glass. "Zowie," I said to my husband Alec, "I sure hate the WTO and capitalism, but that's our coffee store."
I've been pondering the contradictions ever since, watching my progressive colleagues devour the latest episode of Friends, gleefully shop for real estate, and sip their lattes. Political ideology notwithstanding, we were avid participants in popular culture and petty capital. How could we so glibly demonize that which we so cheerfully consumed?
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