Coffee Company Donates Revenue to Fight Slavery

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	Coffee Company Donates Revenue to Fight Slavery

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5-26-2009 11:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8245ab3b-d4cc-4094-b5d2-493bd1fe1568/AE134930-0893-497C-AD88-B9EC3FE50207/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html" href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html"><P>A Seattle-based coffee company is doing what some might consider foolish during a recession – giving away 100 percent of its revenue from this month.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html"><P>In contrast to coffee giant Starbucks, which is scaling back by closing hundreds of stores and laying off thousands of workers, Storyville Coffee Company has pledged to donate up to $1 million in revenue to International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that works to rescue victims of slavery, trafficking and other forms of violent oppression.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html"><P>More than 27 million people are held in slavery in the world – more than at any time in human history.  Nearly 2 million of them are children exploited in the global sex trade each year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090526/coffee-company-donates-may-s-revenue-to-fight-slavery/index.html"><P>The company’s goal remains the same – to bring together coffee lovers, but also this time to raise support and awareness for IJM and its global fight against slavery and human trafficking.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AE134930-0893-497C-AD88-B9EC3FE50207/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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