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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStand-in at Starbucks
Has anyone organized "stand-ins" at Starbucks to protest the arrest of the two men standing-while-black? Maybe a flash mob or just a simple rotating protests in large numbers or duration?
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/12/577343980/the-civil-rights-activist-whose-name-youve-probably-never-heard
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Stand-in at Starbucks (Original Post)
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
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bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)1. I dont think so, no.
JI7
(89,260 posts)2. The issue isn't starbucks itself as much as people just calling cops
To report black people for no reason than being black.
S.E. TN Liberal
(508 posts)3. Starbucks stepped up,
They fired the manager, they have apologized, and they shut stores for training.
I expect they will come up with a reasonable financial settlement.
The issue should be dead by now.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)4. KICK
dembotoz
(16,820 posts)5. we do love to shoot our friends don't we....ain't ya got bigger fish to fry???????????
in my state i have nomination papers for our candidates to get signatures for.....
there are fund raisers to go to
town hall meetings to attend
doors to knock
do something useful
nov ain't that far away