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We honor the hundreds of thousands and millions of people across the globe who have made big change happen over the centuries. They fought slavery, sexism, racism, abuse of workers rights, and more. Today, it's our chance to follow in their footsteps and clean up one especially bitter industry: coffee.

Dark machineries of colonialism, discrimination, and worker oppression have made their mark in many industries. But big, beautiful change has swept our world in spite of oppression. Usually, that change has come because of people power. Because day after day, week after week, year after year, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe mobilized. Mass protests do not always work. But people power is the most potent weapon to defend against tyranny, abuse, and injustice.

Many protesters are unsung and unknown. But they are heroes. They move mountains. They are dogged and steadfast. They make their voices heard. The world desperately needs courageous people who join mass movements. At Coffee Watch, we honor these people. We call on you. Join us.

Write us here <info@coffeewatch.org>

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Scholar, thinker, and innovator Gene Sharp reviewed thousands of instances of nonviolent struggle and catalogued 198 different methods - we invite you to reach out to us and volunteer for any of these non-violent protest possibilities that speak to your heart, and which you think can be deployed to end abuses in coffee.

The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion

Formal Statements

Communications with a wider audience

Group representations

Symbolic public acts

Pressures on individuals

Drama and Music

Processions

Honoring the dead

Public assemblies

Withdrawal and renunciation

The Methods of Noncooperation

Social Noncooperation

Ostracism of persons

Noncooperation with social events, customs and institutions

Withdrawal from the social system

Economic Noncooperation: Boycotts

Action by consumers

Action by workers and producers

Action by middlemen

Action by owners and management

Action by holders of financial resources

Action by governments

Economic Noncooperation: Strikes

Symbolic strikes

Agricultural strikes

Strikes by special groups

Ordinary industrial strikes

Restricted strikes

Multi-industry strikes

Combination of strikes and economic closures

Political Noncooperation

Rejection of authority

Citizens’ noncooperation with government

Citizens’ alternatives to obedience

Action by government personnel

Domestic governmental action

International governmental action

The Methods of Nonviolent Intervention

Psychological intervention

Physical intervention

Social intervention

Economic intervention

Political intervention

Additional Methods (named subsequent to Sharp’s list)

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