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Bottled Rights: Coca-Cola Workers
February 19, 2003
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Coca-Cola is one of the most recogned brands in the world. Billions of people know it as "the real thing." But what's the real story about its corporate practices? Communities in India charge that they are losing their water as bottling plants suck such resources dry to produce Coke. In Colombia, there are allegations that Coke workers are murdered by paramilitaries with the support of bottling plant management.
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at Coca-Cola and a couple examples of the corporation's foreign operations.
Featuring:
Workers who witnessed and experienced paramilitary violence in a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Colombia; Dan Kovalik, an attorney with the United Steel Workers of America, who's involved in a lawsuit against Coca-Cola; Herlinda Lucila Hernandez Matos, a professor at Atlantic University in Colombia who's affiliated with trade unions; Community members in Plachimada, India, who live near a Coca-Cola bottling plant; G.N. Saibaba, All India People's Resistance Forum; Rona Wilson, All India Revolutionary Students Federation
This show also features the song "Drink of the Death Squads" by David Rovics www.DavidRovics.com.
For more information:
SINALTRAINAL
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos
Carrera 15 No. 35-18
Bogota, Colombia
01-57-1-245-5325 and 01-57-1-232-4626
United Steel Workers of America
5 Gateway Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
www.uswa.org
All India People's Resistance Forum
+91 11 27311155; aiprf@hotmail.com
All India Revolutionary Students Federation
Democratic Students Union-AIRSF
room No : 125, Jhelum Hostel
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
+91 11 26194752
For background and information about other Coca-Cola cases: www.cokewatch.org