Starbuck finally responds to our Letters and Protests
Since our protest outside Starbuck's in Ocober last year and several letters the campaign has received a reply of some sort from Starbuck's management.
Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign called for a protest outside Starbuck's in Birmingham city centre for saturday the 21st October 2006. Several other organisations and individuals in the city joined the protest and stood outside the Sturbuck's cafe for two hours distributing leaflets with information linking Starbuck's with Guantanamo by supplying coffee to the American army to the prison at Guantanamo.
Protesters also collected signatures for a petition asking Birmingham Council to demand that the British government does everything possible to secure the release of all the British residents still detained at Guantanamo and get the prison closed.
Quite a few of the shoppers, on hearing the case for boycotting Starbuck because of their policy of supplying coffee at Guantanamo, walked away from the cafe and signed our petition calling for the closure of Guantanamo. The management of the cafe called the Police, who on arrival tried to intimidate the protesters into abondoning their protest. Threats of arrest were made. However, the protesters stood firm. The police decided to allow the protest to continue and left leaving a couple of community police persons watching the protesters from a distance. The protest was successful in convincing quite a few of the consumers from going into Starbuck's cafe. The campaign will be following the protest with a letter to the executive of Starbuck's and if their response is not satisfactory we aim to continue our protest outside starbuck's establishments until they change their policy of supplying coffee to the American army at Guantanamo.
The campaign has since written a letter to Starbuck's management asking them to close their operation at Guantanamo. We await their response. Please download the copy of the letter(Click Here to download the letter) and send one yourself to the address provided. If you receive a reply email to
The National Coalition 
Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign called for a protest outside Starbuck's in Birmingham city centre for saturday the 21st October 2006. Several other organisations and individuals in the city joined the protest and stood outside the Sturbuck's cafe for two hours distributing leaflets with information linking Starbuck's with Guantanamo by supplying coffee to the American army to the prison at Guantanamo. 
The management of the cafe called the Police, who on arrival tried to intimidate the protesters into abondoning their protest. Threats of arrest were made. However, the protesters stood firm. The police decided to allow the protest to continue and left leaving a couple of community police persons watching the protesters from a distance. The protest was successful in convincing quite a few of the consumers from going into Starbuck's cafe. The campaign will be following the protest with a letter to the executive of Starbuck's and if their response is not satisfactory we aim to continue our protest outside starbuck's establishments until they change their policy of supplying coffee to the American army at Guantanamo.