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11/18 Atlanta,GA: International Protest Against Coca-Cola for Labor Violations!
Join the international movement for justice and human rights against the Coca-Cola Company for murder, torture, pollution, and union-busting throughout the world!
CONVERGE on ATLANTA at the WORLD OF COCA-COLA on Friday, November 18 on the way to SOA demonstration!
Join the international movement for justice and human rights against the Coca-Cola Company for murder, torture, pollution, and union-busting throughout the world!
At the Entrance of the World of Coca-Cola
Friday, November 18, 2005, noon
55 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (at Central Ave) Atlanta, GA
http://www.woccatlanta.com/directions.shtml
Noon - Rally & Press Conf with William Mendoza, Coca-Cola Worker & Vice President of SINALTRAINAL (Colombian Food & Beverage Workers' Union)
We are preparing for what we believe will be a turning point in the campaign to hold Coke accountable for violence in Colombia & India as well as Turkey, Indonesia and Guatemala. Coke has been doing everything it can to not only discredit the union SINALTRAINAL in Colombia and grassroots movements in India and elswhere, but also to deflate the global student movement. Coke's arrogance and blatant negligence has only expanded the campaign and fueled student militancy on campus - victory is near and we need your support! Come to the World of Coca-Cola to protest with hundreds of folks coming down to demonstrate against the School of the Americas!
The Press Conference & Rally is the culmination of the North American Speaking Tour with SINALTRAINAL Vice President William Mendoza and United Students Against Sweatshops that has hit schools and communities from Tallahassee to Seattle, Toronto to Los Angeles, Chicago to Knoxville! At the the World of Coca-Cola on November 18, we will see people of conscience and action, including workers from Colombia & the United States, gather to say "Stop Killer Coke"!
Since 1986, roughly 4,000 Colombian trade unionists have been murdered. The vast majority of these murders have been carried out by right-wing paramilitary groups, known as death squads, on an ideological mission to destroy the labor movement. These groups often work in collaboration with the official U.S.- supported Colombian military, and in some instances with managers at plants producing for multinational corporations. In the case of Coca-Cola, according to numerous credible reports, the company and its business partners have turned a blind eye to, financially supported, and actively colluded with paramilitary groups in efforts to destroy workers' attempts to organize unions and bargain collectively.
Since 1989, eight union leaders from Coca-Cola plants have been murdered by paramilitary forces. Dozens of other workers have been intimidated, kidnapped, or tortured. In Carepa, members of the paramilitary murdered union leader Isidro Gil in broad daylight inside his factory's gates. They returned the next day and forced all of the plant's workers to resign from their union by signing documents on Coca-Cola letterhead.
* The most recent murder attempt occurred on August 22, 2003, when two men riding motorcycles fired shots at Juan Carlos Galvis, a worker leader at Coca-Cola's Barrancabermeja plant.
* There is substantial evidence that managers of several bottling plants have ordered assaults to occur and made regular payments to leaders of the paramilitary groups carrying out the attacks.
* These ongoing abuses have taken their toll on Coca-Cola workers' efforts to organize. The Colombian Food & Beverage Workers Union, SINALTRAINAL, has suffered a dramatic loss in membership, as worker leaders are intimidated or forced into hiding. SINALTRAINAL has appealed for solidarity and allies in the U.S. and labor and social justice movements have answered their call.
In India communities living next to Coca-Cola bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages and polluted groundwater resources and soil. In at least two communities, Coca-Cola was distributing its toxic waste under the guise of fertilizer and repeated tests have confirmed that Coca-Cola was selling sub-standard products in the Indian marketplace with levels of pesticides exceeding 30 times those allowed by the European Union standards.
A massive grassroots movement has emerged in India to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its crimes, and literally tens of thousands of community members, primarily from rural India, are taking action to put an end to Coca-Cola's abuses. The community opposition to Coca-Cola in India continues to grow and no amount of misinformation by Coca-Cola is going to stop it.
Demand: Coca-Cola Take Responsibility & Immediate Action for Truth, Justice, & Reparations!
Contact information: Camilo A. Romero || 510.7174227 ||
organize [at] usasnet.org || http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
Join us in taking an important and historic step for local peace and global justice! Spread the word about the Stop Killer Coke campaign and the November 18 action in Atlanta!
ActionLA Coalition Fully Endorse the Coca-Cola Action and encourage everyone from Atlanta, GA area to join the protest!
=================================================================
ActionLA
Action for World Liberation Everyday!
Tel: (213)403-0131
URL: http://www.ActionLA.org
e-mail: Info [at] ActionLA.org
Please Donate to ActionLA!
Send check pay to:
The Peace Center/ActionLA
8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(at the memo line write donations to ActionLA/SEE, all donations are tax deductible)
Please join our ActionLA Listserv
go to: http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/actionla
or send e-mail to: actionla-subscribe [at] lists.riseup.net
Join the international movement for justice and human rights against the Coca-Cola Company for murder, torture, pollution, and union-busting throughout the world!
At the Entrance of the World of Coca-Cola
Friday, November 18, 2005, noon
55 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (at Central Ave) Atlanta, GA
http://www.woccatlanta.com/directions.shtml
Noon - Rally & Press Conf with William Mendoza, Coca-Cola Worker & Vice President of SINALTRAINAL (Colombian Food & Beverage Workers' Union)
We are preparing for what we believe will be a turning point in the campaign to hold Coke accountable for violence in Colombia & India as well as Turkey, Indonesia and Guatemala. Coke has been doing everything it can to not only discredit the union SINALTRAINAL in Colombia and grassroots movements in India and elswhere, but also to deflate the global student movement. Coke's arrogance and blatant negligence has only expanded the campaign and fueled student militancy on campus - victory is near and we need your support! Come to the World of Coca-Cola to protest with hundreds of folks coming down to demonstrate against the School of the Americas!
The Press Conference & Rally is the culmination of the North American Speaking Tour with SINALTRAINAL Vice President William Mendoza and United Students Against Sweatshops that has hit schools and communities from Tallahassee to Seattle, Toronto to Los Angeles, Chicago to Knoxville! At the the World of Coca-Cola on November 18, we will see people of conscience and action, including workers from Colombia & the United States, gather to say "Stop Killer Coke"!
Since 1986, roughly 4,000 Colombian trade unionists have been murdered. The vast majority of these murders have been carried out by right-wing paramilitary groups, known as death squads, on an ideological mission to destroy the labor movement. These groups often work in collaboration with the official U.S.- supported Colombian military, and in some instances with managers at plants producing for multinational corporations. In the case of Coca-Cola, according to numerous credible reports, the company and its business partners have turned a blind eye to, financially supported, and actively colluded with paramilitary groups in efforts to destroy workers' attempts to organize unions and bargain collectively.
Since 1989, eight union leaders from Coca-Cola plants have been murdered by paramilitary forces. Dozens of other workers have been intimidated, kidnapped, or tortured. In Carepa, members of the paramilitary murdered union leader Isidro Gil in broad daylight inside his factory's gates. They returned the next day and forced all of the plant's workers to resign from their union by signing documents on Coca-Cola letterhead.
* The most recent murder attempt occurred on August 22, 2003, when two men riding motorcycles fired shots at Juan Carlos Galvis, a worker leader at Coca-Cola's Barrancabermeja plant.
* There is substantial evidence that managers of several bottling plants have ordered assaults to occur and made regular payments to leaders of the paramilitary groups carrying out the attacks.
* These ongoing abuses have taken their toll on Coca-Cola workers' efforts to organize. The Colombian Food & Beverage Workers Union, SINALTRAINAL, has suffered a dramatic loss in membership, as worker leaders are intimidated or forced into hiding. SINALTRAINAL has appealed for solidarity and allies in the U.S. and labor and social justice movements have answered their call.
In India communities living next to Coca-Cola bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages and polluted groundwater resources and soil. In at least two communities, Coca-Cola was distributing its toxic waste under the guise of fertilizer and repeated tests have confirmed that Coca-Cola was selling sub-standard products in the Indian marketplace with levels of pesticides exceeding 30 times those allowed by the European Union standards.
A massive grassroots movement has emerged in India to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its crimes, and literally tens of thousands of community members, primarily from rural India, are taking action to put an end to Coca-Cola's abuses. The community opposition to Coca-Cola in India continues to grow and no amount of misinformation by Coca-Cola is going to stop it.
Demand: Coca-Cola Take Responsibility & Immediate Action for Truth, Justice, & Reparations!
Contact information: Camilo A. Romero || 510.7174227 ||
organize [at] usasnet.org || http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
Join us in taking an important and historic step for local peace and global justice! Spread the word about the Stop Killer Coke campaign and the November 18 action in Atlanta!
ActionLA Coalition Fully Endorse the Coca-Cola Action and encourage everyone from Atlanta, GA area to join the protest!
=================================================================
ActionLA
Action for World Liberation Everyday!
Tel: (213)403-0131
URL: http://www.ActionLA.org
e-mail: Info [at] ActionLA.org
Please Donate to ActionLA!
Send check pay to:
The Peace Center/ActionLA
8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(at the memo line write donations to ActionLA/SEE, all donations are tax deductible)
Please join our ActionLA Listserv
go to: http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/actionla
or send e-mail to: actionla-subscribe [at] lists.riseup.net
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After the FTAA protests in Argentina, it was evident that Vincentes Fox, the President of Mexico, is following the lead of the Bush regime and endorsing corporate control of indigenous resources by supporting free trade agreements like the FTAA. Vincentes Fox, the former executive of Coca-cola Mexico, already has granted the soft drink water bottling corporations with access to the aquifers under Chiapas and Oaxaca. Removal of billions of liters of aqua from this pristine aquifer in the Huitepec foothills will be a detriment to the biodivesity and indigenous cultures of the Lacandon rainforest bioregion of the Jovel Valley..
"Water is also an indispensable resource for the development of transnational agro-industries, which need irrigation systems for their plantations on the plains and their greenhouses. The same thing is true for soft drink bottling companies, like Coca-Cola (Fox vis-à-vis Zedillo/Union Pacific), which, following the Fox victory, increased its facilities in Chiapas by obtaining a change in ground use for the extraction, processing and bottling of water in the richest aquifer in the Jovel Valley (San Cristóbal de las Casas), located in the Huitepec foothills, an ecological reserve administered by Pronatura (a conservation NGO, whose funding comes, in part, from Coca-Cola Mexico)."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/chiapas/091202_chiapas.cfm
Apparently Hugo Chavez isn't very happy with the actions of Vincentes Fox either. Following the recent collapse of the neoliberal FTAA free trade agreements in Argentina, Vincentes Fox bowed to the pressure of the Bush regime and sold his country to the interests of corporate profit under the guise of FTAA globalization. Vincetes Fox is interested in continuing the FTAA agreement because he is fully ensnared in the trap of corporations like his former employer (and continuing financial benefactor) Coca-cola corporation. After recalling Venezualan ambassadors from Fox controlled Mexico, Chavez had this to say about Vincentes Fox..
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"How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire", he told an audience of supporters and businessmen in the Venezuelan capital Caracas."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4437024.stm
Here in el norte Coca-cola (via Dannon) has their grips on several other aquifers, including the headwaters of the Rio Sacramento in Mt. Shasta City is also being removed by Coca-cola to the tune of several billion liters per day. Removal of aquifer water can have serious long term effects like the collpase of empty aquifer caverns after large amounts of water is removed continuously for extended time period. Coca-cola corporation cannot and will not fix any collapsed aquifer caverns, the rio and her dependants will suffer while Coca-cola executives count their billions of profit from agua theft in their fortified mansions..
more info on water bottling corporations;
"Inside the Bottle: An Expose of the Bottled Water Industry" by Tony Clarke
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Mt. Shasta Bioregional Center
http://www.mountshastaecology.org/
http://www.worldwaterwars.com/index.htm
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"Water is also an indispensable resource for the development of transnational agro-industries, which need irrigation systems for their plantations on the plains and their greenhouses. The same thing is true for soft drink bottling companies, like Coca-Cola (Fox vis-à-vis Zedillo/Union Pacific), which, following the Fox victory, increased its facilities in Chiapas by obtaining a change in ground use for the extraction, processing and bottling of water in the richest aquifer in the Jovel Valley (San Cristóbal de las Casas), located in the Huitepec foothills, an ecological reserve administered by Pronatura (a conservation NGO, whose funding comes, in part, from Coca-Cola Mexico)."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/chiapas/091202_chiapas.cfm
Apparently Hugo Chavez isn't very happy with the actions of Vincentes Fox either. Following the recent collapse of the neoliberal FTAA free trade agreements in Argentina, Vincentes Fox bowed to the pressure of the Bush regime and sold his country to the interests of corporate profit under the guise of FTAA globalization. Vincetes Fox is interested in continuing the FTAA agreement because he is fully ensnared in the trap of corporations like his former employer (and continuing financial benefactor) Coca-cola corporation. After recalling Venezualan ambassadors from Fox controlled Mexico, Chavez had this to say about Vincentes Fox..
"
"How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire", he told an audience of supporters and businessmen in the Venezuelan capital Caracas."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4437024.stm
Here in el norte Coca-cola (via Dannon) has their grips on several other aquifers, including the headwaters of the Rio Sacramento in Mt. Shasta City is also being removed by Coca-cola to the tune of several billion liters per day. Removal of aquifer water can have serious long term effects like the collpase of empty aquifer caverns after large amounts of water is removed continuously for extended time period. Coca-cola corporation cannot and will not fix any collapsed aquifer caverns, the rio and her dependants will suffer while Coca-cola executives count their billions of profit from agua theft in their fortified mansions..
more info on water bottling corporations;
"Inside the Bottle: An Expose of the Bottled Water Industry" by Tony Clarke
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Mt. Shasta Bioregional Center
http://www.mountshastaecology.org/
http://www.worldwaterwars.com/index.htm
luna moth
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