Anti-Coca Cola: Promoting Human Rights in Colombia
Written by Christine Hooyman
Monday, 22 January 2007
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Hey guys. This is my first post so I'm not quite sure how to use this site. Right now I'm working on a campaign to remove Coca Cola products from my university's American University in Washington DC. The Coca Cola corporation has connections to murders, kidnappings, torture and disapperances of their union workers at bottling plants in Colombia. The Coca Cola corporation has been allowing these human rights abuses to continue for years and refuses to allow independent investigations to occur--which would clear Coke's involvement. Until these allegations are disproved, I cannot support a corporation with such ties to gross human rights violations. I am asking my university to break it's contract with Coca Cola and hold contracts with only reputable and honest corporations. For more information please feel free to e-mail me:
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or check out my group on facebook: http://american.facebook.com/group.php?gid
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Allison6463 : Welcome JunkTeen and RecyclingLove. You two should check out the forums. They are a great way to connect with other members. Also, you can post a journal telling of some of the activism you partake in, as well as announcements and links. Be sure to check all of those out! :]
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I think that its great what you are doing!
PEACE!
Elyssah
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