[CIMC-work] [Imc-chicago] Colombian Coca-Cola workers on hunger strike: Take Action Monday! (fwd)

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:30:54 -0600
From: dwlb at uchicago.edu
To: imc-chicago at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: [Imc-chicago] Colombian Coca-Cola workers on hunger strike: Take
    Action Monday!

Hi,  does anyone from indymedia want to cover this tomorrow?
thanks,
dan lb
United Students Against Sweatshops
773-315-4682

Forward widely!

ACTION ALERT:  Take Action Monday to Support Colombian Coca-Cola workers on
Hunger Srike!
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In this Alert:
1.  Delegation to Coca-Cola Headquarters  10:00am
2.  Teach-in at Loyola University Chicago 3:00 pm
3.  Call and Write Coca-Cola!
4.  National Solidarity Hunger Strike: Tuesday March 23rd!
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1.  Coca-Cola workers at eight bottling plants in Colombia have been on hunger
strike since March 15th, protesting firings and attempts to wipe out their
union.  Coca-Cola death squads have killed nine trade unionists and are now
trying to eliminate the whole union.  

Solidarity Delegation to Coca-Cola Corporate Headquarters!
Join students, clergy, and Coca-Cola trade unionist Luis Adolfo Cardona.

Monday, March 22nd 10:00 AM
7400 North Oak Park Avenue, Niles

Get on the VAN!
Contact matt at 847-989-6104 for transportation, carpooling
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2.  Teach-in With Luis Adolfo Cardona at Loyola University Chicago

Monday, March 22   3:00 pm
McCormick Lounge (Coffey Hall)
We'll have free Colombian food :)

The address is about 6300 N Sheridan.  
The building is by the lake and behind
the Skyscraper building.  If your going by the L
you can get off at the Loyola stop.
You can check out the map online:
http://www.luc.edu/info/maps/lsc/

The building of the talk will be Coffey Hall
and it will be in the McCormick Lounge. It's number 31 on the map.
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3.  Take action and write to Coca-Cola:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/cokecampaign
Then Call Coke's corporate headquarters to tell them to bargain with
SINALTRAINAL in Colombia: (847) 647-0200
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4.  3/23: NATIONAL SOLIDARITY HUNGER STRIKE: SUPPORT HUNGER-STRIKING COKE
WORKERS IN COLOMBIA!

While Chicago will take action on Monday March 22nd, students at campuses all
over the country will participate in a 24 hr hunger strike in solidarity with
hunger-striking coke workers in Colombia.  Students will be hunger striking in
front of coke headquarters and on their campuses all over the country...
organize an event on your campus, set up a table to pass out info and get
students to wrike letters to coke.  For more information and to get involved
contact:

United Students Against Sweatshops
212 265 7000 ext 4351 lenore at usasnet.org
http://www.usasnet.org

Colombia Action Network
(866) 473-7431        info at colombiaactionnetwork.org
http://www.colombiaactionnetwork.org

Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
(212) 979-8320        stopkillercoke at aol.com
http://www.killercoke.org 
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