Sat 6th: Resist the Multinational Empire - The Coca Cola Boycott Conference
Colombia Solidarity Campaign | 06.12.2003 01:55 | London
Resist the Multinational Empire - The Coca Cola Boycott
Conference organized by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Saturday 6 December 12.45pm to 5pm
at
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq, London WC1
nearest tubes Russell Square, Euston, Euston Square
Conference organized by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Saturday 6 December 12.45pm to 5pm
at
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq, London WC1
nearest tubes Russell Square, Euston, Euston Square
Resist the Multinational Empire
The Coca Cola Boycott
Main Speakers:
Luis Eduardo Garcia, Coca Cola Worker, SINALTRAINAL (Colombian Food and Drink Workers Union), and Shankar Gopalakrishnan on Coca Cola in Kerala
Reports on the Coca Cola boycott from across the country
Plus
Workshops on the boycott of Israeli goods, No Sweat: campaigning on multinationals, campaigns against Nestle and BP.
An international boycott of all Coca Cola products was called in July this year by Colombian Trade Unions and the World Social Forum. Over recent years eight trade union leaders working at Coca Cola bottling plants in Colombia have been assassinated by paramilitary death squads, allegedly working under orders from the plant managers. Yet despite a US court agreeing that they have a case to answer, Coca Cola’s subsidiaries still refuse to cooperate and protect the lives of workers in Colombia.
Come and discuss how we can ensure that Coca Cola listens, how boycotts can work and how people all over the world are resisting the ‘multinational empire’.
To be followed by Party for Palestine and Colombia from 8pm til late
Venue: SOAS Students Union bar and common room, Cost: £7/£5 (combined conference & party ticket available for £5)
Featuring
Latin and Arabic DJs
Live music:
- Hip Hop from Double Negative and GM Babies
- Protest songs from Rob Johnson
Plus
DJ Pablo
Colombian Drummers
Colombian Food and Mecca-Cola!
Organised in association with the SOAS Palestine Society
Contact:
colombia_sc@hotmail.com, www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk
Human Rights Day 10 December 2003: Protest outside Coca Cola HQ, Hammersmith London 4.30pm.
The Coca Cola Boycott
Main Speakers:
Luis Eduardo Garcia, Coca Cola Worker, SINALTRAINAL (Colombian Food and Drink Workers Union), and Shankar Gopalakrishnan on Coca Cola in Kerala
Reports on the Coca Cola boycott from across the country
Plus
Workshops on the boycott of Israeli goods, No Sweat: campaigning on multinationals, campaigns against Nestle and BP.
An international boycott of all Coca Cola products was called in July this year by Colombian Trade Unions and the World Social Forum. Over recent years eight trade union leaders working at Coca Cola bottling plants in Colombia have been assassinated by paramilitary death squads, allegedly working under orders from the plant managers. Yet despite a US court agreeing that they have a case to answer, Coca Cola’s subsidiaries still refuse to cooperate and protect the lives of workers in Colombia.
Come and discuss how we can ensure that Coca Cola listens, how boycotts can work and how people all over the world are resisting the ‘multinational empire’.
To be followed by Party for Palestine and Colombia from 8pm til late
Venue: SOAS Students Union bar and common room, Cost: £7/£5 (combined conference & party ticket available for £5)
Featuring
Latin and Arabic DJs
Live music:
- Hip Hop from Double Negative and GM Babies
- Protest songs from Rob Johnson
Plus
DJ Pablo
Colombian Drummers
Colombian Food and Mecca-Cola!
Organised in association with the SOAS Palestine Society
Contact:
colombia_sc@hotmail.com, www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk Human Rights Day 10 December 2003: Protest outside Coca Cola HQ, Hammersmith London 4.30pm.
Colombia Solidarity Campaign
e-mail:
colombia_sc@hotmail.com
Homepage:
http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk