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Coca-Cola Board of Directors The following information is to help individuals and groups communicate their feelings directly to the top policymakers of The Coca-Cola Co. Groups may want to organize leafletting, demonstrations and letter writing campaigns at the principal offices of these directors: View Contact List Killer Coke's Casualties Listed below are union leaders at Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants who have been murdered. Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements.
COKE CAN'T HIDE ITS CRIMES IN COLOMBIA Isidro Segundo Gil, an employee at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Colombia, was killed at his workplace by paramilitary thugs. His children, now living in hiding with relatives, understand all too well why their homeland is known as "a country where union work is like carrying a tombstone on your back." Read More... HUMAN RIGHTS SCANDAL LEAVES '$IX-PACK' SPEECHLESS A few corporate power brokers at Coca-Cola and Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks today stand accused as accessories to a violent crime wave. While they sit on their assets, workers at Coke bottling plants in Colombia risk their lives every day simply by going to work. Read More... 
Dear Coca-Cola Board Members, I am shocked to learn of your indifference to the safety of workers who bottle your products.
There are undisputed reports that Coca-Cola bottling plant managers in Colombia, South
America, allowed and encouraged paramilitary death squads to murder, torture and kidnap
SINALTRAINAL leaders and members in an effort to crush their union.
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