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Many colleges, universities, high schools, The seriousness of the situation is best labor unions and human rights groups summed up by SINALTRAINAL Vice- have terminated Coca-Cola contracts, President Juan Carlos Galvis, who stated: removed Coke machines and fountains, “If we lose the fight against Coca-Cola, and banned the sale and marketing of we will first lose our union, next our jobs Coca-Cola products from their campuses, and then our lives.” offices, union halls and events. In January 2004, New York City Council Unions with extensive business ties Member and former police officer Hiram to SunTrust , and representing Monserrate led a delegation on a 10- hundreds of millions on deposit, are day, fact-finding tour to Colombia to warning the bank that it faces an investigate allegations of human rights aggressive boycott by national and violations by Coca-Cola. As one member local unions, their members and others said upon returning: “We heard one story concerned with protecting labor and after another of torture and injustice. human rights. Why? The sheer number of these testimonials was overwhelming.” The delegation The Coca-Cola Company is complicit issued a scathing report in April 2004 in the kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders in concluding that “Coca-Cola is complicit in human rights abuses Colombia, as it was in Guatemala in the 70’s and 80’s. And of its workers in Colombia” — and its “complicity is deepened Coca-Cola shares six top policymakers with SunTrust Banks, by its repeated pattern of bringing criminal charges against including Coca-Cola’s current CEO E. Neville Isdell. SunTrust union activists who have spoken out about the company’s also owns 5% of the Coca-Cola Company’s stock and lends collusion with paramilitaries.” the company hundreds of millions of dollars. SunTrust is now Beyond the matter in Colombia, the World of Coca-Cola teaming up with anti-union Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to open is a world of lies, deception, immorality, corruption, and dozens of bank branches in Wal-Mart stores. Former Coca-Cola widespread environmental abuses. CEO and SunTrust director Douglas Daft serves on Wal-Mart’s And greed runs rampant at Coca-Cola’s board of directors. headquarters where top executives The United Steelworkers of America and the International received hundreds of millions of dollars Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in 2001 against Coca-Cola on in stock options and bonuses, while behalf of SINALTRAINAL, the union representing Coke workers laying off thousands of employees. in Colombia; several of its members, and Isidro Gil, one of its To find out how you can help hold murdered officers. The lawsuit charges that Coca-Cola bottlers Coca-Cola and SunTrust accountable “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security and achieve justice for Colombian forces that utilized extreme violence and murdered, tortured, workers, contact the Campaign to unlawfullyUnthinkable! detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders.” Stop Undrinkable!Killer Coke. CAMPCAMPAIGNAIGN TO TO S STOPTOP • WWW718 852-.KILLER2808COKE.ORG [email protected] • www.KillerCoke.org