News
Rick Young, the author of the coffee law, has appeared on these national television programs to discuss and promote the initiative:
Archived Sec-C News, from May 1, 2002 to present:
Measure O wins key newspaper endorsement! Look towards the middle of "SF Guardian East Bay Endorsements".
Berkeley coffee measure gives brewers jitters
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 3, 2002
Berkeley to vote on politically correct coffee
The San Jose Mercury News, October 23, 2002
Coffee is grounds for an initiative
The Sacramento Bee, October 6, 2002
Seeking grounds for social change
The Chicago Tribune, August 27, 2002
Lovin'
cups: coffee, and justice, for all
The Economist, August 22, 2002
Coffee proposals have some steamed
USA Today, August 6, 2002.
Earth-friendly
java categories
USA Today, August 6, 2002.
Berkeley Ballot On Coffee Conscience
AP, August 1, 2002
California
city makes coffee a political issue
Reuters, July 11, 2002.
coffee klatch: 'Fair Trade' stirs up
a cafe society,
The International Herald Tribune, July 8, 2002.
Initiative to
Test Berkeley Voters' Coffee Conscience
The New York Times, July 7, 2002
A Fight Is Brewing
The Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2002
A
great city's people forced to stop drinking swill?
S. F. Chronicle, June 21, 2002.
P.C.
or no coffee -- that would be the question, The
Berkeley Voice, June 21, 2002.
Berkeley May Ban Non-PC Coffee, WKMG, June 18, 2002.
Coffee
Ideals Proposed for Berkeley, Contra Costa
Times, June 18, 2002.
Berkeley
Seeks Politically Correct Coffee
Fresno Bee, June 18, 2002.
Boalt
Hall Grad Works to Limit Which Coffees Cafes
Can Sell: Proposition May Be On November Ballot, The
Daily Californian, May 1, 2002.
Berkeley
on Track to Making Coffee Politically Correct,
The Oakland Tribune, May 02, 2002.