[pagan-magik] RE: Dont Miss Show on Killer Coke in UK

[raga woods]

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>From: "KillerCoke.org" <stopkillercoke at aol.com>
>To: raga_woods at hotmail.com
>Subject: Don’t Miss Show on Killer Coke in UK
>Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:01:10 +0100
>
>CAMPAIGN TO STOP KILLER COKE ALERT
>
>DON’T MISS SHOW ON KILLER COKE IN UK
>
>FEBRUARY 26, 2006 ALERT
>
>On Monday, February 27, 2006 from 8-8:30 pm, the UK’s most watched
>current affairs program, “Tonight with Trevor McDonald” will be doing
>a half hour program on ITV1 about issues surrounding Killer Coke (The
>Coca-Cola Co.). The program will cover certain aspects of Coca-Cola,
>including human rights abuse allegations at its plants in Colombia.
>
>Everyone in the UK concerned with this issue should try to watch the
>show and then write into the program to either commend them or add
>information about where they went wrong. Use the feedback form.
>
>Recent quotes from union leaders representing Coke workers:
>
>"Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in
>Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered,"
>said JIM HOFFA, TEAMSTERS GENERAL PRESIDENT. "It's long past time for
>Coca-Cola to negotiate a global human rights agreement that will
>protect the rights and safety of workers who produce, package and
>distribute Coca-Cola products."
>
>CONFERENCE DIRECTOR AND TEAMSTER INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, JACK
>CIPRIANI, said Coca-Cola's labor abuses in the United States include
>harassment, intimidation, discrimination and retaliation at CCE
>facilities as well as at Odwalla and Minute Maid operations - both
>wholly owned by The Coca-Cola Co." Coca-Cola Enterprises is
>Coca-Cola's largest bottler headquartered in Atlanta. The Coca-Cola
>Co. owns about 40% of CCE's common stock and has several of its top
>executives on the board of CCE. Two of Coke’s directors are on the
>board of CCE and Coca-Cola Femsa, which is Colombia’s largest bottler
>and a defendant in the lawsuit that charges "contracted with or
>otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilized extreme
>violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise
>silenced trade union leaders."
>
>KATISHI MASEMOLA, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE FOOD AND ALLIED WORKERS
>UNION (FAWU), which represents approximately 6,000 Coca-Cola workers
>at three bottling plants in South Africa…Our members in South Africa
>support you in your demand that Coca-Cola institute a human rights
>policy,” Katishi said. ”No worker should have to endure the abuse
>that our fellow workers in Columbia have had. We look forward to
>working with the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Conference towards
>concrete solutions to these human rights indignities.”
>
>From “Colombian Workers Support U.S. Universities' Ban on Coca-Cola,”
>By Javier Baena, The Associated Press, 01-04-2006:
>
>Colombia's main labor group voiced support Monday for U.S.
>universities that have banned the sale of Coca-Cola while allegations
>of workers' abuses were being investigated. "Coca-Cola is a frequent
>violator of union rights and that's why several universities in the
>United States have decided to protest their conduct," said FABIO
>ARIAS, VICE PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA'S CUT TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION,
>which represents 623 unions and 550,000 workers. ###
>CAMPAIGN TO STOP KILLER COKE
>We are seeking your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders,
>kidnappings, and torture of union leaders and organizers involved in
>daily life-and-death struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in
>Colombia, South America.
>
>"If we lose the fight against Coca-Cola, we will first lose our
>union, next our jobs and then our lives." SINALTRAINAL VIce President
>Juan Carlos Galvis
>-------------------------
>Please donate to the Campaign. (
>https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=stopkillercoke%40aol.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD
>)
>-------------------------
>Learn the truth about The Coca-Cola Co.
>
>"We believe the evidence shows that Coca-Cola and its corporate
>network are rife with immorality, corruption and complicity in
>murder."
>Campaign to Stop Killer Coke/Corporate Campaign, Inc. Director Ray
>Rogers
>
>Visit www.KillerCoke.org ( http://www.killercoke.org )
>
>
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