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The Pause That Kills!!!
Por James F. Harrington -
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 10:44 PM
It is a very sad day when one comes to the realization that their favorite iconic soft drink company isn't exactly what it purports to be, but rather just the opposite! I grew up in New England in the 50's, when Elvis ruled! So did many other American icon's such as The Coca-Cola Company. I remember going to the drug store and ordering a vanilla coke. The druggist would actually mix it up before your very eyes! I never would have believed in my wildest dreams that the corporate executives of this company would turn out to be such ruthless, blood thirsty monsters, capable of the most henious crimes against humanity! Of course, back in those days, I also believed the same about my beloved United States of Amerika!!! Ah...To be innocent and naive once more. student-cokecan.gif, image/gif, 275x331 As you read this article, the Coca-Cola company is using para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture, and kill union organizers at their plants in Columbia, South America. Many of these killers were trained at the School of the America's (remember General Wesley Clark, the so-called peace candidate? He used to be the top- dog at this torture academy) The next time you are thirsty, please, I beg you, grab something other than a Coke and their other products (for example...Minute Maid, etc; etc.) In case you haven't heard yet, the Coca-Cola company isn't happy with all of their yearly dividends. They must have more capital to make their products the Real Thing all around the world. They have hired para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture and kill union organizers at their bottling plants in Columbia, SA. You can feel a kind of patriotism knowing that these killers were trained at the infamous School of the America's, located in Fort Benning, Georgia. This is the same death campus that trained the goons that have returned to many South American countries and killed thousands of leftest students. At their website, The Coca-Cola company denies any knowledge or responsibility of these murdurs, saying that each Coke plant in foreign countries is independently owned. What they are not telling us, is that they have a 48% interest in these companies. They also entertain much influence over their franchise'es. The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke is really starting to make headway around different sections of our country. On August 23, 2004, the American Postal Workers Union held their 17th Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles, at which time the union voted to boycott Coca-Cola products. Coca-Cola was forced to remove all of its vending machines from Carleton College, MN after a March 8, 2004 decision. Jessie Jackson is on record as supporting the unionists in Columbia, SA. Please start a local chapter of Campaign to Stop Killer Coke in your neighborhood or campus. Their URL is: http://www.KillerCoke.org We should not be able to sleep at night knowing that our brothers & sisters are being submitted to such unhuman acts by such an Ameican Icon as Coca-Cola. Put pressure on your college and universities, churches and civic groups, to have them remove the Coke vending machines from their locations. Always remember, in this captialist country, the only thing that talks in the Yankee Dollar!!! Capitilaists will kill for these dollars as should be evient to anyone who has an open mind on how our system works (such as Coke in Columbia, SA). The bottom line is, they want our dollars. We must let them know that they not only won't get our dollars, but will shall hold them accountable for the tactics that they have used and are presently using to stamp out justice for the working man in Latin America and elsewhere! As Che Guevara once said..."If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine!" Below is a letter from Javier Correa, President, Sinaltrainal; William Mendoza, President of Sinaltrainal/Barrancabermeja, and Ray Rogers, Director, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Brothers and Sisters: We need your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings and torture of SINALTRAINAL (National Union of Food Industry Workers) union leaders and organizers involved in daily life-and-death struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. In July 2001, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund (http://www.laborrights.org) filed a lawsuit on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, several of its members and the estate of Isidro Gil, one of its murdered officers. The lawsuit and campaign aim to force Coca-Cola to prevent further bloodshed and to provide safe working conditions. Coca-Cola bottlers “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilize extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders,” the lawsuit states. It also notes that Colombian troops connected with the paramilitaries have trained at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga., where trainees were encouraged to torture and murder those who do “union organizing and recruiting;” pass out “propaganda in favor of workers;” and “sympathize with demonstrators or strikes.” This was made public when the Pentagon was forced to reveal the contents of training manuals used at the school. (For more information, see http://www.soaw.org, the website of SOA Watch.) The year that the lawsuit was filed, The Coca-Cola Co. made $4 billion in profits and paid its CEO, Douglas Daft, more than $105 million. Coca-Cola continues to rake in billions each year, yet the frightening conditions at the Coke plants remain unchanged. Labor unions and human rights advocates in the United States can stop these atrocities at Coca-Cola’s bottling plants. Please read the enclosed exposés. The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke will move the fight to the doorsteps and into the boardrooms of Coca-Cola and its key financial ally, SunTrust Banks. As long as SunTrust, “the bank of Killer Coke,” maintains its intimate ties to Coke through board interlocks, large stock holdings and credit relationships, SunTrust, along with Coca-Cola, will be a principal target of this campaign. We ask you to take part in this most important struggle. Any contribution you can make to the campaign will serve as a critical building block and act of solidarity to help end one of the ugliest chapters in labor history. Please make a financial contribution, participate in protest activities and mail in the coupon below. By working together, we can protect our sisters and brothers and restrain corporations like SunTrust and Coke that behave so immorally and irresponsibly. Any support you give will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged. In solidarity, Javier Correa, President, Sinaltrainal William Mendoza, President of SINALTRAINAL, Barrancabermeja. Ray Rogers, Director, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke http://www.killercoke.org add your comments REVENGE SEGUNDO'S DEATH!!! by James F. Harrington Friday October 22, 2004 at 08:16 PM segundo.jpg, image/jpeg, 741x321 Union organizer killed by para-military goons which were hired by The Coca-Cola Company in Columbia, SA http://www.killercoke.org add your comments Good Bye Coke!!! by James F. Harrington Friday October 22, 2004 at 08:16 PM remcoke1.jpg, image/jpeg, 432x324 Coke vending machine being removed from an American university after its sudents and faculty voted for their removal because of The Coca-Cola Companys relentless efforts to swash and destroy the labor movement at their Columbia, SA bottling plants and their hiring of para-military goon squads to kidnapp, torture and kill union organizers in an effort to keep their plants non-union. Of course the reason for this is so they can continue to pay their workers very low wages. http://www.killercoke.org escriba sus comentarios Good Bye Coke!!! por James F. Harrington Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 6:45 PM remcoke1.jpg, image/jpeg, 432x324 Coca-Cola vending machine being removed from the campus of an American university, after the students and faculty voted in behalf of the Coca-Cola workers in Columbia, SA escriba sus comentarios REVENGE SEGUNDO'S DEATH!!! por James F. Harrington Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 6:45 PM segundo.jpg, image/jpeg, 741x321 Segundo was killed by para-military goons at the Coca-Cola plant in Columbia, SA
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As you read this article, the Coca-Cola company is using para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture, and kill union organizers at their plants in Columbia, South America.
Many of these killers were trained at the School of the America's (remember General Wesley Clark, the so-called peace candidate? He used to be the top- dog at this torture academy)
The next time you are thirsty, please, I beg you, grab something other than a Coke and their other products (for example...Minute Maid, etc; etc.)
In case you haven't heard yet, the Coca-Cola company isn't happy with all of their yearly dividends. They must have more capital to make their products the Real Thing all around the world.
They have hired para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture and kill union organizers at their bottling plants in Columbia, SA.
You can feel a kind of patriotism knowing that these killers were trained at the infamous School of the America's, located in Fort Benning, Georgia.
This is the same death campus that trained the goons that have returned to many South American countries and killed thousands of leftest students.
At their website, The Coca-Cola company denies any knowledge or responsibility of these murdurs, saying that each Coke plant in foreign countries is independently owned. What they are not telling us, is that they have a 48% interest in these companies. They also entertain much influence over their franchise'es.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke is really starting to make headway around different sections of our country.
On August 23, 2004, the American Postal Workers Union held their 17th Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles, at which time the union voted to boycott Coca-Cola products.
Coca-Cola was forced to remove all of its vending machines from Carleton College, MN after a March 8, 2004 decision.
Jessie Jackson is on record as supporting the unionists in Columbia, SA.
Please start a local chapter of Campaign to Stop Killer Coke in your neighborhood or campus. Their URL is: http://www.KillerCoke.org
We should not be able to sleep at night knowing that our brothers & sisters are being submitted to such unhuman acts by such an Ameican Icon as Coca-Cola.
Put pressure on your college and universities, churches and civic groups, to have them remove the Coke vending machines from their locations.
Always remember, in this captialist country, the only thing that talks in the Yankee Dollar!!! Capitilaists will kill for these dollars as should be evient to anyone who has an open mind on how our system works (such as Coke in Columbia, SA).
The bottom line is, they want our dollars. We must let them know that they not only won't get our dollars, but will shall hold them accountable for the tactics that they have used and are presently using to stamp out justice for the working man in Latin America and elsewhere!
As Che Guevara once said..."If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine!"
Below is a letter from Javier Correa, President, Sinaltrainal; William Mendoza, President of Sinaltrainal/Barrancabermeja, and Ray Rogers, Director, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
We need your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings and torture of SINALTRAINAL (National Union of Food Industry Workers) union leaders and organizers involved in daily life-and-death struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.
In July 2001, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund (http://www.laborrights.org) filed a lawsuit on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, several of its members and the estate of Isidro Gil, one of its murdered officers. The lawsuit and campaign aim to force Coca-Cola to prevent further bloodshed and to provide safe working conditions.
Coca-Cola bottlers “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilize extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders,” the lawsuit states. It also notes that Colombian troops connected with the paramilitaries have trained at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga., where trainees were encouraged to torture and murder those who do “union organizing and recruiting;” pass out “propaganda in favor of workers;” and “sympathize with demonstrators or strikes.” This was made public when the Pentagon was forced to reveal the contents of training manuals used at the school. (For more information, see http://www.soaw.org, the website of SOA Watch.) The year that the lawsuit was filed, The Coca-Cola Co. made $4 billion in profits and paid its CEO, Douglas Daft, more than $105 million. Coca-Cola continues to rake in billions each year, yet the frightening conditions at the Coke plants remain unchanged. Labor unions and human rights advocates in the United States can stop these atrocities at Coca-Cola’s bottling plants.
Please read the enclosed exposés. The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke will move the fight to the doorsteps and into the boardrooms of Coca-Cola and its key financial ally, SunTrust Banks. As long as SunTrust, “the bank of Killer Coke,” maintains its intimate ties to Coke through board interlocks, large stock holdings and credit relationships, SunTrust, along with Coca-Cola, will be a principal target of this campaign. We ask you to take part in this most important struggle. Any contribution you can make to the campaign will serve as a critical building block and act of solidarity to help end one of the ugliest chapters in labor history. Please make a financial contribution, participate in protest activities and mail in the coupon below. By working together, we can protect our sisters and brothers and restrain corporations like SunTrust and Coke that behave so immorally and irresponsibly. Any support you give will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged.
In solidarity,
Javier Correa, President, Sinaltrainal
William Mendoza, President of SINALTRAINAL, Barrancabermeja.
Ray Rogers, Director, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
http://www.killercoke.org
add your comments
REVENGE SEGUNDO'S DEATH!!!
by James F. Harrington Friday October 22, 2004 at 08:16 PM
segundo.jpg, image/jpeg, 741x321
Union organizer killed by para-military goons which were hired by The Coca-Cola Company in Columbia, SA
http://www.killercoke.org
add your comments
Good Bye Coke!!!
by James F. Harrington Friday October 22, 2004 at 08:16 PM
remcoke1.jpg, image/jpeg, 432x324
Coke vending machine being removed from an American university after its sudents and faculty voted for their removal because of The Coca-Cola Companys relentless efforts to swash and destroy the labor movement at their Columbia, SA bottling plants and their hiring of para-military goon squads to kidnapp, torture and kill union organizers in an effort to keep their plants non-union. Of course the reason for this is so they can continue to pay their workers very low wages.
Good Bye Coke!!!
Por James F. Harrington -
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 10:44 PM
remcoke1.jpg, image/jpeg, 432x324
Coke vending machine being removed from an American university campus after its students and faculty voted to have all Coca-Cola products banned from their campus!
REVENGE SEGUNDO'S DEATH
Por James F. Harrington -
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 10:44 PM
segundo.jpg, image/jpeg, 741x321
Segundo, an labor organizer for the workers at the Columbia, SA Coca-Cola plant was one of many Coca-Cola union organizers that have been kidnapped, tortured and killed per orders of the Coca-Cola Company.