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Protest planned at Coca-Cola launch, 19-2-04

Markmedic | 18.02.2004 12:44 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Coca-Cola are planning a stunt to launch Dasani a new bottled water. The Columbian Solidarity Campaign, are planning a protest at 12 noon on Thursday at the Peace Gardens to coincide with the launch on behalf of eight assasinated trade unioun workers and their families. They accuse Coca Cola of impeding the progress of programmes to clean up drinking water forcing millions to drink soft drinks.

On 17/02/04 at 20:38 John Smith wrote:

>Please note the following forwarded message from the Colombia Solidarity
>Campaign. There WILL BE a protest at the Peace Gardens to coincide with
>Coca-Cola's stunt... please get there if you can; please cascade this
>message to everyone you feel should know. Within hours of launching the
>protest, hundreds of people in Sheffield already know of it. By teatime
>tomorrow it will be thousands.
>
>A comment: there is something deeply ironic about Coke's launching of a
>new line of purified tap water. Colombia's food workers' union,
>SINALTRAINAL, charges Coca-Cola with impeding programmes in various Latin
>American countries aimed at cleaning up the polluted drinking water that
>forces millions of people to instead consume soft drinks.... and just a
>few days ago the Indian government upheld charges that Coca-Cola was
>selling soft drinks that are contaminated with pesticides and other
>toxins, at up to 40 times the level permitted in the EU. Coke's head of
>operations in India complained that the Indian government shouldn't be
>making a fuss about contaminants in its products. "Most of India's
>drinking water is unfit for human consumption but the politicians have
>found it more convenient to go for the global brand names," he said.
>
>
>
>Forwarded from Colombia Solidarity Campaign...
>
>Dear friends in Sheffield and area,
>
>Coca Cola wants to promote its new water product Dasani through a show in
>Sheffield this Thursday lunchtime. The company is using dare-devil divers
>to get a lot of publicity in local and national press.
>
>On behalf of the families of eight assassinated Colombian trade unionists
>and their trade union SINALTRAINAL we call for protests at the launch and
>an immediate boycott of Dasani and all other Coke products. Coke has got
>blood on its hands.
>
>SINALTRAINAL demands that Coca Cola:
>
> a.. publicly recognises that it benefited from the crimes committed by
>paramilitary groups continually carried out against the human rights of
>the workers and the communities
> b.. pays compensation for the damages caused
> c.. hands over to justice those criminals who carried out actions to its
>benefit
> d.. commits itself to not making any new attacks on our people and
>negotiates with the union ways to protect life, with international
>witnesses.
>The launch will be at Peace Gardens, Pinstone Street from 12 noon.
>
>Please let me or local contacts know if you can come.
>
>We have bulletins and (some) placards, and we are printing new leaflets
>tomorrow (Wednesday) and can arrange to get them all to you.
>
>The bigger and noisier the turn out the better.
>
>Andy Higginbottom
>Secretary, Colombia Solidarity Campaign
>
>(For further information see Coke Activists Pack
> http://colombiasolidarity.org.uk/cocacolacampaign.html and Colombia
>Solidarity Bulletin No 11
> http://colombiasolidarity.org.uk/Solidarity%2011/SolidarityNo11.html)
>
>
>"SM" reports: This is Coke's offering for the health conscious. This isn't
>actually a natural mineral water, rather they strip the impurities from
>tap water and then add the minerals. Ooh err! The corporate spiel that I
>was handed at work says that they can turn the flow on or off at the touch
>of a button allowing them to optimise production for warm periods. Expect
>a huge campaign in then next couple of months, big enough to rival the
>relaunch of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps. They make the process sound
>all nice and expensive, expensive for us customers, nice - tastes awful,
>like Vittel but even nastier (I didn't think it possible, but it's true!)

Markmedic
- e-mail: markmedic@burngreave.net

Comments

Display the following 4 comments

  1. Drink ? — Dave
  2. To Drink, or Not To Drink? — Brian B
  3. Boycott Coca Cola — observer
  4. unnessasary crap... — cb
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