COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT AND SUGAR PRODUCERS ATTACK WORKERS DURING A JUST PROTEST

More than 100 workers were left injured today, 15 September 2008, by the limitless aggression of the national army, the police mobile anti-disturbance squadron ESMAD, and the private security of the sugar processing plants.

URGENT ACTION:
SON OF COCA-COLA WORKER KIDNAPPED AND TORTURED

2pm – 7pm Saturday 30 June 2007, followed by Social (till 10)
Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2.
(Nearest tube Old Street)

Witnesses from Colombia’s social movements describe how their human rights and environment are affected by oil corporations’ thirst for profits.

PRESIDENT OF THE AGRO-MINING FEDERATION OF SUR DE BOLIVAR DETAINED

For years, workers in Colombia have demanded that Coke take responsibility for its role in the murder of union leaders. Last year, Coke announced that, instead of meeting the workers demands, they would participate in an "investigation". Read on form more info and to tell them to Act now!

On 14 December 2006, in the city of Barranquilla, a communiqué was left at the residence of Euripides Yance, a Coca-Cola worker and member of the National Committee of SINALTRAINAL. The communiqué is entitled BLACK EAGLES [AGUILAS NEGRAS] and threatens various student, social and trade union leaders, giving them a week to leave the city. Amongst them are members and leaders of SINALTRAINAL and workers at Coca-Cola EURIPIDES YANCE, LIMBERTO CARRANZA, and CAMPO QUINTERO.