[Imc-uk-outreach] Request for Feature: Coca-Cola Accountability Tour UK October 6-17

[India Resource Center]

Dear friends at Indymedia:

We would like to have Indymedia assist us in publicising this important 
tour to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its crimes against humanity in India 
and Colombia.  Speakers from India and Colombia will be on the tour for the 
international that links human rights, labour rights and environmental 
justice.  The tour is an effort to strengthen the international campaign in 
the UK, and for the first time, the joining of Indian and Colombian 
communities.

Please consider placing the announcement for the tour as a feature on your 
respective Indymedia sites.

The latest tour info can be found at 
http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2004/ukcoketour.html and 
background information on Coca-Cola can be found at www.IndiaResource.org

Thank you very much

Amit Srivastava
Coordinator
India Resource Center

UK TOUR  October 6-17, 2004

Bristol - Liverpool - Manchester - Birmingham - Bradford - Glasgow - London

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COCA-COLA:
DESTROYING
LIVES, LIVELIHOODS & COMMUNITIES

An international campaign, led by communities, has emerged to hold 
Coca-Cola accountable for its crimes in Colombia and India.

Coca-Cola is guilty of
    * Complicity in the murder and torture of trade union organizers in 
Colombia.
    * Creating water shortages, pollution and selling poisoned drinks in 
India.
JOIN US to hear from activists from Colombia and India about this KEY 
international campaign that assert the rights of workers, the rights of 
communities over natural resources and the right to live free of corporate 
terror.

Speakers include:

Edgar Paez, Director of International Affairs, SINALTRAINAL 
<http://www.sinaltrainal.org>
SINALTRAINAL represents food and beverage industry workers in Colombia, and 
its leaders, workers and families have been subject to a gruesome cycle of 
murder, violence and torture in Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.

Amit Srivastava, Director, India Resource Center <www.IndiaResource.org>
The India Resource Center is a bi-national (India-US) group which campaigns 
actively in the US and internationally on behalf of community struggles 
against Coca-Cola in India.

The UK Tour to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable will visit:

Wednesday, October 6   Bristol

7.30 pm Mandela Bar, University of Bristol Students Union, Queens Roads, 
Bristol
(Contact: Mario.Novelli at bristol.ac.uk and geoffknorbyrne at hotmail.com)

Thursday, October 7  Liverpool

7:00 pm  Crown Hotel, 43 Lime Street
(Contact: paul.grunnill at btopenworld.com)

Friday, October 8       Manchester

6.30 pm Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2
(Contact: tariq_mehmood1 at onetel.net.uk and ceonuse at yahoo.co.uk)

Sunday, October 10   Birmingham

4pm The Drum, 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham
(Contact: nmalik50 at yahoo.com)

Monday, October 11              Bradford

7:30 pm 1 in 12 Club, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford
(Contact: colmillo at riseup.net and tammysherar at yahoo.com)

Tuesday, October 12  Glasgow

1-2 pm Colville 420 at Strathclyde University, North Portland Street, 
Glasgow G1
7.30pm - 9.30 pm  Patrick Burgh Halls, 9 Burgh Hall St, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
(Contact: davidmiller at strath.ac.uk)

Wednesday, October 13 London

7-9 pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University, Thornhaugh Street, Russell 
Square tube
(Contact sasg at southasiasolidarity.org and emilitoh at hotmail.com)

Wednesday, October 13         London

BENEFIT CONCERT featuring Transglobal Underground, Fun-da-Mental, Rythms of 
Resistance
9 pm- 2 am       Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, London, Angel Tube
(Contact mel_alf at yahoo.co.uk)

Thursday, October 14   London

Exhibition on Crimes in Colombia
7:00 pm The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern Street, Old Street Tube
(Contact: emilitoh at hotmail.com)

Saturday, October 16 London

2 pm SchNEWS Conference at the Camden Centre, Judd Street, Kings Cross Tube
(Contact: emilitoh at hotmail.com)

Sunday, October 17     London

9:00 am - 12:00 pm   Workshop at European Social Forum
(Contact Mr_Rhys_Jones at hotmail.com)

Sunday, October 17    London

MARCH AND RALLY at European Social Forum
1:00 pm  Meet at Russell Square (march to Trafalgar Square)
(Contact: emilitoh at hotmail.com)

National Tour Sponsored by:  Colombia Solidarity Campaign, India Resource 
Center, South Asia Solidarity Group

For more information on the campaign, 
visit  <http://www.indiaresource.org/>www.IndiaResource.org and 
<http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/>http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk 
or email India Resource Center at info(AT)IndiaResource.org or Colombia 
Solidarity Campaign at emilitoh(AT)hotmail.com
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