The Starbucks coffee shop on Sixth Avenue and Pine Street in
downtown Seattle sits serene and orderly as unremarkable,, As
any other in the chain bought years ago by entrepreneur Howard
Schultz. A few years ago however the quiet, storefront. Made front
pages around the world. During the World Trade Organization talks
in, November 1999 protesters FL ooded Seattle s. ' Streets and, among
.Their targets was Starbucks a, them, symbol to, free-market of capitalism
run amok another multinational, out to blanket. The earth.
Amid the crowds of protesters and riot police were black-masked
anarchists who trashed the store leaving its,, Windows smashed and
its tasteful green-and-white Decor smelling of tear gas instead of
espresso. Says an angry Schultz:? "It 's hurtful. I think people are
.Ill-informed. It 's very diffi cult to protest against a can, of Coke a
bottle of Pepsi or a, can of Folgers. Starbucks. Is both this ubiquitous
brand and a place where you can go and break a window. You
can 't break a can of Coke. "
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