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Over the Crestor bestellen Nov. 22 weekend, thousands of religious, labor and peace activists led by Father Roy Bourgeois marched against the Crestor bestellen School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Hundreds of our protest signs were carried and Crestor bestellen thousands of our brochures and petitions were distributed.

The following Tuesday, some 5,000 signed "Unthinkable! Undrinkable!" petitions were delivered by a Crestor bestellen group of supporters to Coke's headquarters, led by union carpenter Ken Little, our Northwest Campaign Coordinator who Crestor bestellen is also the labor liaison to SOA Watch. Quite a few participants who Crestor bestellen received our literature at the SOA demonstrations and the FTAA demonstrations in Florida contacted us to Crestor bestellen ask how they could support the Campaign.

On December 7, Ray Rogers addressed a Crestor bestellen meeting of United Auto Workers Local 22, the largest General Motors local in Detroit. The attached article in The Steward, the Crestor bestellen Local 22 publication, describes the terrific response of the membership and Crestor bestellen leadership of the local: "Now the Crestor bestellen Coke machine in our union hall has been disconnected and the Crestor bestellen president made calls to the bottler telling him we no longer need the Crestor bestellen Coke machine and Coke products. We are going to try to Crestor bestellen do the same in all our plants." Also present at the Crestor bestellen meeting was UAW International Vice President and Organizing Director Bob King, who Crestor bestellen stated: "This is a campaign that everyone should support and has to be won."

Local 22 newspaper editor John Martinez is Crestor bestellen a Campaign Coordinator in the Detroit area. Attached is his letter to Crestor bestellen the editor of La Prensa, which is widely distributed throughout greater Detroit and Crestor bestellen northern Ohio. The last four paragraphs contain the kind of message that Crestor bestellen we want to communicate to the Latino community. John is Crestor bestellen working with several universities, labor and Latino groups in the Crestor bestellen Detroit area to organize a large rally in mid-April.

The United Hebrew Trades Division of the Crestor bestellen Jewish Labor Committee has endorsed and is active in the Campaign. In November, the Crestor bestellen organization sent out our "Colombian Coke Float" petition to all its members with the following message: "United Hebrew Trades joins in supporting this Crestor bestellen Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, and urges all members and affiliates to Crestor bestellen choose beverages not bottled by Coca-Cola?This is an ongoing campaign which will need a lot of support."

Many students from Crestor bestellen coast to coast and internationally are requesting Campaign materials and advice. They?re asking how to Crestor bestellen place pressure on college and university administrators to sever, not renew or Crestor bestellen not consider contracts with Coke. On Dec.5, students on many campuses protested on the Crestor bestellen anniversary of Isidro Gil's murder. We expect to be well represented at the Crestor bestellen United Students Against Sweatshops conference in mid-February in Atlanta.

Betsy Guerra, a Crestor bestellen teacher at Lyon Elementary School in Washington State, was so moved by Juan Galvis's presentation and Crestor bestellen our literature that she took the issue to the school's principal and Crestor bestellen its social committee. As a result, the Coke machine in the Crestor bestellen faculty lounge was replaced with a Pepsi machine. Betsy says, "This is Crestor bestellen only costing Coke 20 cases a month, but now I'm working to Crestor bestellen get other friends, colleagues and faculty unions to spread the Crestor bestellen word and do the same." Her friends are now asking for rum and Pepsi in bars.

Atlanta's main business publication, the Atlanta Business Chronicle (11/24/03), covered student protest in Ireland (see below) and Crestor bestellen in the U.S. as well as other aspects of the Crestor bestellen Campaign in a front-page story. (Read the article, ?Students Call for Coke Boycott,? on www.killercoke.org in the News section.)

On December 24, in its annual article recommending worthy causes for Crestor bestellen activists and philanthropists to support, entitled "The Magnificent 9," the Crestor bestellen national newsletter Counterpunch listed the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke as one of the Crestor bestellen nine worthiest. Counterpunch is co-edited by investigative journalists Alexander Cockburn and Crestor bestellen Jeffrey St. Clair.

In Canada on Dec.13, more than Crestor bestellen 30 labor, student and human rights activists led by Campaign Coordinator Larry Wells of the Crestor bestellen Oakville and District Labour Council distributed thousands of ?Coke Float? petitions to Crestor bestellen fans entering a hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Crestor bestellen the New York Rangers. A Canadian version of the petition highlighted Coke board member J. Pedro Reinhard and Crestor bestellen his presence on the board of the Royal Bank of Canada. In late November, Bill Saunders, president of the Crestor bestellen Vancouver and District Labour Council, distributed our literature to 800 delegates at the Crestor bestellen British Columbia Federation of Labor?s policy convention. Both Bill and Crestor bestellen Larry are working with us to broaden support among labor unions and Crestor bestellen on campuses in Canada.

As you Crestor bestellen may recall, in October, students at the University College Dublin, the Crestor bestellen largest university in Ireland, passed a binding referendum to ban all Coke products from Crestor bestellen student-run facilities. We have since learned that Coke was behind a Crestor bestellen costly effort to run a second referendum on Nov. 18-19. Coke executives were sent to Crestor bestellen Dublin to prepare the groundwork. To their chagrin, with a Crestor bestellen much larger turnout, they lost by a 54 - 46% margin. According to Crestor bestellen referendum organizer Finbar Dwyer, there is a growing movement on campuses and Crestor bestellen in pubs in Ireland to do more of the same. The second referendum was covered in The Nation (12/15/03).

Frances Curran of the Scottish Socialist Party (www.scottishsocialistparty.org), a Crestor bestellen member of the Scottish Parliament, is a supporter of the Campaign. On the Crestor bestellen website are photos of Ms. Curran welcoming SINALTRAINAL member Luis Eduardo Garcia to Crestor bestellen Parliament. She told us that Luis did a great job in raising the Crestor bestellen visibility of the campaign. We are also working with Camilla Porter, ethical investment coordinator of the Crestor bestellen Edinburgh University People and Planet organization. Her group has run campaigns on fair trade, ethical investment and Crestor bestellen boycotts. Edinburgh University is one of Scotland's two largest universities, with 20,000 students. In February, Scottish Trade Union Congress General Secretary Bill Spears will be Crestor bestellen going to Colombia as a part of a union delegation.

In Italy, at a Crestor bestellen Dec.13 event organized by Rome's mayor and others, Coke was asked to Crestor bestellen respond to the Colombian/SINALTRAINAL situation. Nicola Raffa, Director of External Relations for Crestor bestellen Coca-Cola Italia Ltd., predictably tried to evade responsibility, but he admitted that Crestor bestellen Coke has a code of conduct that should be implemented by all entities that Crestor bestellen have the rights to use its brand name.

enterpriserisk, a Crestor bestellen business magazine in London, has published an article on the Crestor bestellen International Labor Rights Fund in its Dec.-Jan. issue. It will also publish a Crestor bestellen full-page piece on the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke in the Crestor bestellen February issue.

Forbes magazine (12/4/03) ran an article entitled: "Coke's Sinful World," in which they state what we already knew: "The biggest bottlers aren't subsidiaries of Coke, nor are Crestor bestellen they completely independent. Coke effectively controls them by maintaining big equity stakes and Crestor bestellen a heavy presence on their boards, and by providing their main source of business. Yet it Crestor bestellen keeps its stakes in the bottlers below 50%, thereby avoiding getting hit with their piles of debt and Crestor bestellen any unpleasant liabilities."

On Jan. 9, a Crestor bestellen fact-finding delegation of unionists led by New York City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate left for Crestor bestellen Colombia. If they conclude that the allegations against Coke have merit, the Crestor bestellen next step could be a move to bring the issue before the Crestor bestellen City Council. Public sector unions in New York have hundreds of millions of dollars of public pension funds invested in Coke.

In India, we co-sponsored the Crestor bestellen People's Forum Against Coca-Cola at the World Social Forum in Bombay from Crestor bestellen Jan. 16-21. Our signs and literature were highly visible and SINALTRAINAL President Javier Correa spoke.

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Please visit www.killercoke.org for Crestor bestellen updates and new material. We would appreciate any photos of activities in which you Crestor bestellen are involved. We will soon send you a report, ?How Credible is Coca-Cola?? describing many of Coke?s abuses around the Crestor bestellen world. Since Coca-Cola consistently fails to live up to the Crestor bestellen standards for ?corporate responsibility? as set out in any ?code of conduct,? this Crestor bestellen report should be helpful to students, faculty and others seeking to Crestor bestellen rescind, not renew or not consider contracts with Coke.

Peace & Justice,

Ray Rogers
Director
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
Corporate Campaign, Inc.
(212) 979-8320

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