The Bay

How a Coffee Boycott Helped End a Civil War

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An often-overlooked moment in Bay Area activism took place in the 1980s and 90s, when a broad coalition of activists targeted San Francisco’s coffee industry to protest the civil war in El Salvador. KQED’s Sebastian Miño-Bucheli joins us to talk about how it happened.

Links: 

  • The Time a Bay Area Coffee Boycott Helped Stop a Civil War
  • A timeline of Fred Ross Jr., executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor 

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