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MODIFIED: November 02, 2004
It's the Real Thing:
Murder at Coke
in Colombia....
Could it be that Coca-Cola, that quintessential American corporation,
that company which once hired actors to hold hands and sing "We are
the World" thereby making us feel all warm and cuddly and convincing
us
to buy Coke, has been engaged in deadly, murderous anti-labor
practices in Colombia?
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The Following is a partial overview of
developments in
the Coke case, prior to the agreement linked above...
(see
also, Action
Alerts Regarding Coke in Colombia)
Stop Killer Coke!
Death squads have assassinated eight trade union leaders in Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. The Stop Killer Coke campaign holds the beverage giant responsible....
Read it HERE
,
or at http://www.dollarsandsense.org/1103baran.html
from DOLLARS
AND SENSE, Issue #250, November/December 2003
ILWU Backs Colombia Coca-Cola boycott
Report by Ken Morgan
Published: March 5, 2003 (?)
http://www.labournet.net/world/0305/coke1.html
William Mendoza Gómez is Barrancabermeja regional President of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian food workers union trying to organize Coca-Cola workers. He addressed the International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) Convention in San Francisco on May 1st.
When mentioning the murder of union activists, he recounted an experience when the para-militaries working on the behalf of the corporations attempted to kidnap his four year old daughter. The would be kidnappers contacted him and said “we intend to return the body of your daughter in a plastic trash bag”!
Besides receiving a rousing standing ovation by everyone present, several resolutions were passed:
1. He was made an honorary ILWU member
2. The international give his organization $5,000 immediately
3. The ILWU support the boycott against Coca-Cola, and
4. All Coca-Cola machines will be removed from all ILWU buildings, local and international
Colombia: appeal over new threats to trade unionists (March 18, 2003)
Colombia: attempted kidnap of child of Coca-Cola trade unionist (June 24, 2002)
Here is a piece from the Center for Latin American Studies on both
the
lawsuit against Coke and POR friend, Dan
Kovalik (April 25, 2002), an
attorney who is working
on the case.
The full text of the complaint may be found at this Labor Rights site.
Radio Interview with attorney Dan Kovalik re. the case against Coke
Dan's interview
is the first, starting several minutes
into the
four hour show. To
move directly to the interview, slide Real Audio's timer over
to the 9 1/2 minute
mark. The conversation with Dan lasts
half an hour.
Dan's
interview is from the show, This
Is Hell!, which airs
Saturday Mornings on
Chicago's WNUR
- 89.3 fm.
Two articles from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 6 and June 7, 2002.
The Pacifica story entitled Murders at Colombian Coca-Cola Plant Spark
New Labor Strategy sheds more light on the labor relations and human
resources practices of the Coca-Cola Corporation.
Additional sites with more extensive information include:
Don't drink Coke.
Wait until its secret recipe no longer
involves the shedding of its workers' blood.
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