Coffee

United States Scrambles To Put Pressure On Nicaragua

November 1, 2025 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. Educate! Coffee, Nicaragua, Tariffs, Trade

“We were already struggling with 18% tariffs this year, I don't know how we could export our coffee under 100% tariffs,” René Gaitan tells me as we watch the clouds clear out over a breathtaking expanse of Nicaraguan landscape. The view from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative stretches from Lake Managua up toward the Honduran border, dominated by the smoking crater of the Telica volcano. Gaitán is the vice president of the 51-family cooperative. The co-op is remote; its members hike eight kilometers to get the bus to the city of León, a three-hour ride away. But the news on 20 October that the U.S. may impose 100% tariffs on the Central American nation reached the co-op with the lightning speed of the internet on Gaitan's smart phone, charged by solar panels.

Colectivo Could Become The Largest Unionized Coffee Chain

March 25, 2021 Alice Herman, In These Times. Organize! Coffee, Labor Unions, union busting

On March 8, Lauretta Archibald marked her three-year anniversary as a baker for Colectivo Coffee Roasters, an upscale Midwestern coffee chain based in Milwaukee and Chicago. In her years at Colectivo, Archibald had been responsible for making artisan bread in bulk, sometimes baking 1,000 loaves a night. It was arduous work, and Archibald says that she did not always have the support — or even materials — that she needed: the bakery was understaffed for stretches of time, there weren’t enough cooling racks and one of the ovens leaked the smell of gas through the kitchen.

D.C. Coffee Shops Issue ‘Disloyalty Card’ To Take Down Starbucks

January 11, 2014 Arin Greenwood, www.huffingtonpost.org Organize! Coffee, Corporatism

There's an attack on big business in Washington! A half-dozen independent coffee shops in the nation's capital have banded together to lure consumers away from that French-roasted behemoth known as Starbucks. D.C. Disloyalty Card" holders will get a stamp when they visit Peregrine Espresso, Filter, The Coffee Bar, Chinatown Coffee Company, La Mano and the Blind Dog Cafe. Once six stamps are collected, the disloyal card-holder can enjoy a free drink from one of the participating shops. "The card is a fun way to get baristas and customers talking with each other," Dawn Shanks, a Peregrine Espresso barista who helped create the card, told the Washington Post. "It also reflects the connection all the individual shops have with one another -- the coffee community is a supportive and close-knit group."

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