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Nelson
Prez,
Luis Eduardo Garcia, Jose Domingo
Flores
In
the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia
have been told that before the end of December they will be killed
and buried in a mass grave. The threat demands that the union cease
all protest against Coca-Cola. Join us in emergency action to defend
their lives!
The
men – Luis Eduardo, Jose Domingo and Nelson Perez – belong to
SINALTRAINAL, the trade union representing Coca-Cola workers in
Colombia. Since 1994, nine Coca-Cola workers have been murdered by
paramilitary death squads in response to the union’s resistance.
5-7pm
Thursday 20th
December
PICKET:
Coca-Cola
Great Britain, Head Office
1
Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9HQ
(near
to Hammersmith tube)
The
paramilitary group Aguilas
Negras (Black Eagles) have
claimed responsibility for this threat and the five others issued to
SINALTRAINAL members this year, demanding that they cease all protest
against the company. The situation was covered in Channel 4’s
recent Dispatches: Mark
Thomas on Coca Cola which
featured interviews with Luis Eduardo.
Watch
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5JXmDApzp4
The
Christmas season is a particularly dangerous time for social and
human rights activists in Colombia. Please help protect our friends.
Make sure that the threat that they end up in a mass grave this
December isn't carried out.
WHAT
CAN YOU DO?
BOYCOTT
COCA-COLA PRODUCTS
WHAT ELSE YOU
CAN DO
Call
on Coca-Cola Corporation and its bottling subsidiary FEMSA to:
-
provide immediate protection for the
threatened workers - Luis
Eduardo Garcia, Jose Domingo Florez, Nelson Perez - and
their families;
-
denounce the Black Eagles as the
authors of these threats and demands that they be brought to
justice;
-
condemn the government's 'Justice and
Peace' Law as a device for legitimising the Black Eagles and other
paramilitary groups.
Write
to Ed Potter, Coca-Cola Director
of Global Labor Relations at
E-mail:
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;
Juan Carlos Jaramillo
President Coca-Cola FEMSA in
Colombia at
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and Corporate Responsibility at UK Coca-Cola at
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Demand
that the Colombian government
breaks the impunity enjoyed by the Black Eagles and:
Write
to President Álvaro
Uribe Vélez E-mail:
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and Colombian Embassy to the UK E-mail:
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