[news] Fw: [mobglob-discuss] July 22 is boycott Coke day

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: [mobglob-discuss] July 22 is boycott Coke day


> Boycott Coca-Cola - 22nd July 2003
> International Day of Action & Boycott Launch
>
> Boycott Coca-Cola - 22nd July 2003 - International Day of Action &
> Boycott Launch    As you are hopefully aware, the World Social Forum has
> declared the 22nd  July, as the International Day of Action against Coca
> Cola, and the  start of a boycott of all its products.    These actions
> are in solidarity with SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian Food  and Drinks
> Workers Union. SINALTRAINAL have suffered the assassination  of 8 union
> leaders, killed by paramilitaries financed by Coca Cola  management, as
> well as the isappearance, arbitrary detention, torture,  kidnap and
> sacking of hundreds more of their workers at Coca Cola  bottling plants
> throughout Colombia.    In a court case in the USA, brought by the United
> Steelworkers Union, in  solidarity with SINALTRAINAL, a judge has ruled
> that Coca Cola's  bottlers have a case to answer, but the multinational
> refuses to cooperate with the union, and continues its policy of
> repression. In a similar case in Guatemala during the 80s, Coca Cola stood
> by and watched as union members within their bottling plants were
> assassinated by death squads. Coca Cola only acted to protect the lives of
> their workers when  pressured into it by a consumer boycott.    For this
> reason, we are asking you to participate in this boycott, to throw the
> Coke machine out of your school, college or workplace, to organise in your
> area, and to demand that Coca Cola be answerable for
>  the heinous abuses of their workers in Colombia.    Join us for the
> International Day of Action and organize an event in  your area. Help make
> the day as truly international as Coca Cola's corporate abuses, help out
> in activities planned for all over the world!    If you need help,
> materials, information or speakers, contact The Colombia Solidarity
> Campaign, PO Box 8446,  London N17 6NZ    tel : 07932
>  034477: Email: colombia_sc at hotmail.com website:
> http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk    The Coca Cola Campaign    Coca
> Cola and Nestlé both stand accused of serious human rights violations in
> Colombia. While Nestlé sack union members, Coca Cola kill them.
> Paramilitary Death Squads, acting under orders from Coca Cola
>  management, have assassinated 8 trade union leaders in their workplaces.
> The union, INTRAMINERCOL, has responded by calling for an international
> boycott of Coca Cola and all of their products, to start on 22 July.
>
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