1. Campaign Meeting - 6th July
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The next Colombia Solidarity Campaign members meeting will be
1pm - 3pm Saturday 6th July at CORAS, 161 Lambeth Walk, London SE11
(nearest tubes Lambeth North and Vauxhall).

Please note that the National Committee due on that date has been
postponed until Saturday 7th September. A formal notice will be sent out
to all members.


2. Uribe Velez comes to UK Wednesday 17th July
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Uribe has already visited Washington and Ottawa, today he is in Paris
and according to the Colombian press he is coming to meet Tony Blair in
London on 17th July.

Watch this space for more details...


3. Coca Cola Day of Action Monday 22nd July
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The first phase of the International Public Hearing on the assassination
of 7 SINALTRAINAL members in Coca Cola's bottling plants starts on 22nd
July. This will take place in Atlanta, Georgia USA - the city of Coke's
headquarters.

SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian National Food Industry Workers Union, points
out that "we no longer believe in the impartiality nor the objectivity
of the Colombian justice system, we are calling upon international
public opinion so that these crimes be judged and sentences pronounced".

There will be solidarity pickets outside Colombian Embassies in
Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Belgium (possibly in France and Spain).
We have decided to hold a solidarity picket as well.

SINALTRAINAL has also launched a law suit in the US courts under the
Alien Torts Claims Act for violating the human rights of its workers in
Colombia.

Picket
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4.30pm Monday 22nd July
Colombian Embassy, 3 Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge (back of Harrods),
London SW1

NO MORE COCA COLA DEATH SQUADS!
END STATE IMPUNITY FOR PARAMILITARY TERROR!


Electronic Protest
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Please send messages on 22nd July especially pointing out that Coca Cola
should:

* stop violating the human rights of its workers
* apologise to the families of the victims and pay them
compensation
* condemn paramilitary terror in Colombia
* call on the state authorities to prosecute those responsible
for murdering trade unionists

World President of Coca Cola
E-mail,  mail@na.cokecce.com

The British Foreign Office:
E-mail: Dennis Macshane:  macshaned@parliament.uk
Jeremy Hobbs:  jeremy.hobbs@fco.gov.uk
Jack McIver:  Jack.McIver@fco.gov.uk

His Excellency Dr Victor G Ricardo, Embassy of Colombia,
3 HansCrescent, London SW1X OLN.
Fax: 020 7581 1829 Email:  mail@colombianembassy.co

with copies to:
 sinaltrainaldinal@hotmail.com;  audpubcoka@hotmail.com and
 colombia_sc@hotmail.com


For more information see:
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UA 21 June 2002, ATTEMPTED KIDNAP OF CHILD OF COCA COLA TRADE UNIONIST
Colombian Labor Monitor  http://www.prairienet.org/clm/
and the lawsuit is at: www.laborrights.org/projects/coke/index.html

Further Sessions
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The second session of the international tribunal will take place in
Belgium on 10th October. Please contact us if you would like to join our
delegation to attend the tribunal. The third session will be in Bogotá
on 5th December.


4. Colombia Solidarity Bulletin No. 7 July - September 2002 Now Out!
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JOIN DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE to STATE TERRORISM and MULTINATIONAL TAKEOVER


CONTENIDO VERSIÓN ESPAÑOL

I. ¿Por que fracasaron los diálogos de paz?
II. Cuando la Democracia es Dictadura
III. Guerrillas, Drogas y Derechos Humanos en la Política Colombiana
de Estados Unidos, 1988-2002

CONTENTS ENGLISH VERSION

I. Why Peace Talks Fail
II. When Democracy is Dictatorship
III. SINTRAEMCALI PREVENTATIVE ACTION
IV. DEATH THREATS TO NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF USO, OILWORKERS UNION
V. 85 TRADE UNIONISTS ASSASSINATED SO FAR THIS YEAR
VI. WILSON BORJA
VII. BELLAVISTA TRAGEDY
VIII. State Assault in Medellín
IX. Human Rights Violations
X. HIGHER EDUCATION - HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND PRIVATISATION
XI. TELECOM WORKERS IN SECOND WAVE OF OCCUPATIONS - NO SELL OFF!
XII. Beware Free Trade Area of the Americas
XIII. THE BP CAMPAIGN
Protests at BP AGM
'Outrageous' Sutherland
Concern for Lawyers
Solidarity News
XIV. 'A DEATH FORETOLD ONE THOUSAND TIMES'
XV. NESTLÉ'S TERROR
XVI. Things Getting Worse for Coke
XVII. TABACO CAMPAIGN GOES FORWARD
XVIII. Britain's favourite fruit, the banana,
stained with banana workers' blood
XIX. VENEZUELA SINCE THE COUP
XX. Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S. Colombia Policy,
1988-2002
XXI. PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT and the US's TERROR WAR IN COLOMBIA
XXII. Colombian Trade Unionists Make Deep Impression
XXIII. No Evidence to Convict Irishmen
XXIV. Collateral Damage
XXV. ACTIVITIES
XXVI. BP COLOMBIA PIPELINE VICTIMS DEFENCE FUND
XXVII. CAMPAIGN PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

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