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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 ::
Blood and Coca-Cola By Stephanie Ryan, Daily Vanguard - Portland State University
According to Lew Church, coordinator of the Progressive Student Union at PSU, the Coke boycott has been going on for over a year.
"Columbia's the worst country in the world to be a union organizer," he said. "The government is conservative; they're cooperating with the Bush administration to implement a neo-liberal agenda, which tends to try to downsize, underpay and discourage unions."
The International Confederation of Free Trade (ICFTU), which represents 158 million workers, concluded that nearly 200 Columbians had been killed because of their trade union activities.------------------------------------------- posted 7:15 AM :: reference link ::
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