Global Day of Protest Against Coca Cola - October 17

YOUR CHANCE TO MEANINGFULLY AFFECT AIDS IN AFRICA IN A SYSTEMIC MANNER

WHAT: GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST COCA-COLA PICKET

WHERE:
Pacific Stock Exchange, 301 Pine (at Sansome)
San Francisco-
3 blocks from Montgomery BART
(and in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Thailand, Paris, Philadelphia, NYC, Zimbabwe, London, Lisbon, Tokyo, Morocco, Boston, Seattle. Atlanta, Burlington, DC & more)

WHEN: Noon, Thursday, October 17

SPEAKERS:
Rev. Cecil Williams, GLIDE Memorial Church
Berkeley Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek
Walter Johnson, Secy-Treas. SF Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
SF Supervisor Matt Gonzalez (schedule permitting)
Krishan Abeyatunge-entertainment-good vibes
Nunu Kidane, Advocay Network for Africa
Philip Machingura, HealthGAP
John Iversen, ACT UP/East Bay MC


WHY: To demand that Coke, Africa's largest private foreign employer follow the lead of Heineken, Volkswagen SA, DaimlerChrysler, Anglo Gold and DeBeers, by providing AIDS treatments to its 100,000 workers. That Coke match or better the Heineken deal whereby Heineken pays 80% and exclusive bottlers and distributors pay 20%

WHO: originally called by HealthGAP and South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign and now endorsed by over 200 organizations globally and the following locally:

Black Radical Congress-Feminist Caucus, California Nurses Association, WORLD, Survive AIDS, Center for Third World Organizing ACT UP East Bay, San Francisco Bay View, Global Exchange, Ecology Center, Hemophilia Justice, California Newsreel, California Peace & Freedom Party, American Friends Service Committee-PMR, East Bay Community Law Center, First Congregational Church of Oakland, Berkeley Gray Panthers, Vote Health, Middle East Childrens Alliance, American Medical Students Association, Walter Johnson (Secy-Treas San Francisco Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Berkeley Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek & Councilors Kriss Worthington, Margaret Breland, & Linda Maio, Hayward Councilor Kevin Dowling, Peralta College Trustee Darryl Moore, San Francisco Supervisors Tom Ammiano & Matt Gonzalez

more info: http://www.healthgap.org http://www.treat-your-workers.org
to otherwise help call Phillip Machingura at Mobilization Against AIDS: (415) 252-4865 or John Iversen at ACT UP East Bay 510-841-4339

Can't come? Call Coca Cola 404-676-4971 & tell them to match Heineken's
program (see above) "why"