Costa Rica Adventure

I will be in Costa Rica next week, doing further research on wonderful Costa Rica coffee. (do you think the IRS will buy that?)

I'll try to keep you posted on the trip.

Robert

Coffee Pacifica Corporate Update

Monday July 9 1:00 PM

Coffee Pacifica, Inc. (OTCBB:CFPC) announced today that it has notified Deidrich Coffee, Inc. ("Diedrich") of its decision to not proceed with a tender offer to acquire 3,000,000 shares of the capital stock of Deidrich Coffee, Inc. (representing approximately 66% of the issued and outstanding shares of Deidrich Coffee, Inc.) On June 11, 2007, in a Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Coffee Pacifica announced its intention to make a tender offer to acquire shares of Diedrich. Coffee Pacifica continues to evaluate other suitable acquisition targets that meet exacting standards of roasting coffees and supplying coffee on a "Growers Direct" basis to the wholesale and retail gourmet markets.

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History of Costa Rican Coffee

Coffee came to Costa Rica in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Its arrival on national scene was discrete, but definitive. Slowly and with perseverance that great works demand, coffe growing expanded over the high lands of the Central Valley. The brotherhood of coffee farmers, both large and small, formed the basis that allowed Costa Rica to become the first Central American country to establish coffee as an industry.

Our first export was to Colombia. Those lonely sacks that crossed our borders in 1820, became the ground breaking activity which, from that moment on, changed the course of our lives. By 1823, we were already exporting quality coffee to Chile. There, it was repackaged for sale to England under the name of "Café Chileno de Valparaíso".

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Trial against Starbucks at the National Labor Relations Board

Source: IWW Starbucks Workers Union

Starbucks' socially responsibility claim is in for its
biggest test yet. After an independent investigation
triggered by charges from the IWW, the Labor Board hit
Starbucks with a massive complaint alleging over 30
critical violations of workers' rights including the
termination of three employees for union activity. The barista firings
at issue in the case resulted in solidarity actions from around the world.
Now Starbucks will have to answer for its illegal acts in open court.

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