Queens University boycott coke
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Friday November 26, 2004 18:21
by ss - suqub
Queens University Student Councils meeting held on 25th 11th 04, passed the following motions:
1. This council opposes the war on Iraq and the war on terror, and calls for the immediate withdraw of all occupying forces in Iraq.
2. This council support the Colombian trade unions call for a worldwide boycott of Coca-Cola,
Queens University Student Councils meeting held on 25th 11th 04, passed the following motions:
1. This council opposes the war on Iraq and the war on terror, and calls for the immediate withdraw of all occupying forces in Iraq.
2. This council support the Colombian trade unions call for a worldwide boycott of Coca-Cola,until Coca-Cola apologise to, and compensates the families of the Coca-Cola employees who were murdered, because they were members of the trade union employed by Coca-Cola in its bottling plant in Colombia. Moreover, the Coca-Cola Boycott will only be removed when Coca-Cola recognise the human rights of workers in Colombia to belong to a trade union of the own choice free from the threat of murder/terror.
The council have place the boycott of all Coca-cola products into immediate affect, further more; all profits made by the students union from the sale of Coca-Cola products we be donated to the Colombian trade union Sintraemcali to help fund their fight for justice for the employees Coca-Cola, and for all workers in Colombia.
BOYCOTT COCA-COLA
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2My boycott began the day the first American bomb fell on Jugoslavia. Yes Coke, along with DC trainers of which I am very fond, Levi's Jeans, Budweiser, going to the Cinema, and Marlboro Lites......
A friend who visited Cuba a few years back; during a particularly cold snap in relations with the US, while passing through customs was asked if he would like his passport stamped, "but you won't get into America" , the customs man then chipped in with. "Stamp it twice!!", replied my friend!
Solidarity!
I'm part of Leeds Social Forum in the UK, and we are also running a campaign to boycott coke, or at very least end the exclusivity contract that our union currently has with the company so people have a choice.
We've already passed a motion to get posters up by coke machines explaining their actions in Colombia and India. The best is yet to follow I am sure.
John
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