Breakthrough in Boycott Coke campaign

Issued : Monday 9 January, 2006

Recent high profile campaign successes in the USA and UK, where Oxford, New York and Michigan Universities have all voted to boycott Coke, have at last forced the Colombian media to question Cokes activities in the country. Today, Sinaltrainal (the Colombian Food and Drinks Workers Union) have been interviewed by Telesur (Venezuela), El Pais (Spain) CNN (USA) and all the major Colombian radio, TV and press.

El Tiempo, Colombias only national daily newspaper has carried a front page article. There are several audio interviews as well, all in Spanish except for one interview in English with the President of the Oxford Student Union, explaining why they voted to boycott Coke.

TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE USA AND EUROPE BAN COCA-COLA DUE TO ALLEGED LINKS WITH PARAMILITARIES

From front page of El Tiempo (Bogot), 5 Jan 2006. English and Spanish, read more here

COKE STRUGGLES TO DEFEND POSITIVE REPUTATION Financial Times 6 January 2006

It is 16 years since Avelino Chicanoy was murdered in Pasto, Colombia, the first of eight union leaders killed at Coca-Cola bottling plants in the country, allegedly at the hands of right-wing paramilitaries, at..... click here to read more

LABOUR GROUP SUPPORTS SCHOOLS' COCA-COLA BAN

Fabio Arias, Vice President of the CUT, Colombia's main labour group, voices support for the International Campaign against Coca-Cola, read about it here