Coca-Cola workers get 'Death Threat'; Solidarity requested

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Three Coca-Cola workers under threat of death - opportunity for publicising the threat, rubbing Coke's nose in their complicity with world-wide repression (interestingly, Mark Thomas brings out the probably little-known fact that in Martin Luther KIng's big 'mountaintop' speech, one day before his assassination, he called on people to boycott coke!).
This sort of solidarity can also build bridges with other campaigns, in this case South American ones.



----------Forwarded message ---------- Colombia Solidarity Campaign COCA-COLA WORKERS RECEIVE IMMINENT DEATH THREAT 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 their 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. Union president Javier Correa and his family have been receiving similar threats. 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, Javier Correa - 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: colombia_action@Coca-Cola.com; Juan Carlos Jaramillo President Coca-Cola FEMSA in Colombia at jarbelaez@panamco.com.co ; and Corporate Responsibility at UK Coca-Cola at corporate_affairs@ge.cokecce.com Demand that the Colombian government breaks the impunity enjoyed by the Black Eagles and: • pursues an immediate criminal investigation into the Black Eagles in Bucaramanga; • stops its process of legalisation of paramilitary groups under the misnamed 'Justice and Peace' Law . Write to President Ã�lvaro Uribe Vélez via Colombian Embassy to the UK E-mail: mail@colombianembassy.co.uk The Colombia Solidarity Campaign meets on every third Tuesday of the month at The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 0AE. Future meeting dates are: 22nd January, 19th February, 18th March, 22nd April. We will be discussing the re-launch of the Coca-Cola campaign and monitoring the situation for SINALTRAINAL union members. I would like more information/ to join the campaign: Name………………………….Contact (phone/email)…………………………..   Address ……………………………………………………………⠀¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦. info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk Colombia Solidarity Campaign, PO Box 8446, London N17 6NZ

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Who likes death-squad States? Hmmm, quite a few, including US and UK, and of course, Israel:

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12498/colombian_leader_says _world_must_recognize_israel_as_state_of_jewish_people

'Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has said he would continue in his quest to end the armed conflict in his country through negotiations which are currently taking place in Oslo, Norway, but also through the strict application of laws in place. At a ceremony on Tuesday in Bogota, Santos was bestowed with the Shalom Prize of the Latin American chapter of the World Jewish Congress..'