[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] International Boycott of Coca-Cola

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Hi:  Some of us will probably want to participate in this boycott of
>Coca-Cola. Maybe economic pressure will cause them to act like halfway
>decent employers in Colombia and elsewhere.  Peace.  Richard Walton, RI.
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>STUDENTS BOYCOTTING COCA COLA
>http://www.killercoke.org/report.htm
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>Javier Correa, president of Sinaltrainal, the Colombian food and beverage
>union calling for an international boycott of Coca-Cola, will be speaking
>to the NYU community on March 1st in preparation for a final vote
>considering a ban at NYU. Students have mobilized to stop the sale and
>distribution of Coca-Cola products on a campus of nearly 40,000 total
>enrollment, joining over 70 colleges and universities in the United States
>  with active campaigns to ban Coca-Cola due to human rights abuses against
>  union members occurring at bottling plants in Colombia.
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>Last December, The University Committee on Student Life, representing all
>student councils from all NYU schools, voted to support the student
>resolution to stop the sale and distribution of Coca-Cola products on
>campus until the company cooperates with an independent investigation.
>The  resolution passed despite the testimony of a Coca-Cola representative
>who  spoke at the meeting. A growing petition holds nearly 1,000
>signatures.
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>Coca-Cola's refusal to allow an independent investigation into the
>violence  occurring at their bottling plants in Colombia has resulted in
>student  action at NYU and other schools internationally, and the
>successful boycott  of Coke at 6 campuses in the US.  Over the last 15
>years, seven Coca-Cola  workers affiliated with the national food and
>beverage workers union  Sinaltrainal have been murdered, and countless
>members have been harassed,  intimidated, threatened, kidnapped and fired
>for their union activities.
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>	"The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the 
>anger of the
>most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational."
>Sam Smith.
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>	"When they come for the innocent without crossing over
>your body, cursed be your religion and your life."  Anon.  But often
>quoted by Dorothy Day.
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>"Richard Walton" <richard at soup.org>
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Paul Etxeberri

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