COKE - TONIGHT WITH TREVOR McDonald - Monday 27 Feb

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

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Soroush
On Monday, February 27, 2006 from 8-8:30 pm, the UK's most watched current
affairs program, "Tonight with Trevor McDonald" will be doing a half hour
program on ITV1 about issues surrounding Killer Coke (The Coca-Cola Co.).
The program will cover certain aspects of Coca-Cola, including human rights
abuse allegations at its plants in Colombia.

Everyone in the UK concerned with this issue should try to watch the show
and then write into the program to either commend them or add information
about where they went wrong.

http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=1215>Use the feedback form.

Recent quotes from union leaders representing Coke workers:

"Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia
have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered,"
said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President.
"It's long past time for Coca-Cola to negotiate a global human rights
agreement that will protect the rights and safety of workers who produce,
package and distribute Coca-Cola products."

Conference Director and Teamster International Vice President, Jack
Cipriani, said Coca-Cola's labor abuses in the United States include
harassment, intimidation, discrimination and retaliation at CCE facilities
as well as at Odwalla and Minute Maid operations - both wholly owned by The
Coca-Cola Co." Coca-Cola Enterprises is Coca-Cola's largest bottler
headquartered in Atlanta. The Coca-Cola Co. owns about 40% of CCE's common
stock and has several of its top executives on the
Femsa, which is Colombia's largest bottler and a defendant in the lawsuit
that charges "contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security
forces that utilized extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully
detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders."

Katishi Masemola, General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union
(FAWU), which represents approximately 6,000 Coca-Cola workers at three
bottling plants in South Africa.Our members in South Africa support you in
your demand that Coca-Cola institute a human rights policy," Katishi said.
"No worker should have to endure the abuse that our fellow workers in
Columbia have had. We look forward to working with the Teamsters Brewery and
Soft Drink Conference towards concrete solutions to these human rights
indignities."

From "Colombian Workers Support U.S.
Universities' Ban on Coca-Cola," By Javier Baena, The Associated Press,
01-04-2006:

Colombia's main labor group voiced support Monday for U.S. universities that
have banned the sale of Coca-Cola while allegations of workers' abuses were
being investigated.
"Coca-Cola is a frequent violator of union rights and that's why several
universities in the United States have decided to protest their conduct,"
said Fabio Arias, vice president of Colombia's CUT trade union
confederation, which represents 623 unions and 550,000 workers.

Campaign to Stop KILLER COKE

We are seeking your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings,
and torture of union leaders and organizers involved in daily life-and-death
struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia, South America.

"If we lose the fight against Coca-Cola, we will first lose our union, next
our jobs and then our lives." SINALTRAINAL VIce President Juan Carlos Galvis
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Learn the truth about The Coca-Cola Co.

"We believe the evidence shows that Coca-Cola and its corporate network are
rife with immorality, corruption and complicity in murder."
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke/Corporate Campaign, Inc. Director Ray Rogers

http://www.killercoke.org>Visit www.KillerCoke.org
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