BOYCOTT

COCA-COLA!

STOP PLAN

COLOMBIA!







NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT COLOMBIAN TRADE UNIONISTS!




Nine Colombian trade unionists are dead, killed by Coca-Cola death squads. Many of you have heard Luis Adolfo Cardona testimony on the connection between Coke and the right wing paramilitary death squads in Colombia. Coca-Cola's strategy to eliminate the workers' union SINALTRAINAL, includes firing, intimidating, and murdering union
leaders. In response, 30 union leaders held an eighteen-day hunger strike, winning negotiations with Coca-Cola over their jobs. With the Colombia Action Network and USAS, students at DePaul, Northeastern, Lake Forest, College of Dupage, U of
Chicago, and Loyola are organizing a boycott and kicking Coca-Cola off their campuses. DePaul University wrote a letter requesting the Workers' Rights Consortium, a watchdog group, investigate Coca-Cola's crimes. We are rallying to support DePaul University for their moral stand.



In Colombia, three trade unionists are murdered every week. These violations are promoted by "Plan Colombia", a U.S. war plan. Plan Colombia unleashes paramilitary death squads and chemical fumigations on poor peasants and their crops, leaving narco-traffickers untouched. Created by Clinton/Gore, added on to by Bush, Plan
Colombia has cost U.S. taxpayers $3 billion. On April 15th, Tax Day, we are protesting Plan Colombia, and call for an end to the spending of working people's hard earned money, over $2 million per day, for war against trade unionists and poor peasants in Colombia. Republican Senator Fitzgerald votes against Plan Colombia.
Tell Death Squad Democrat Dick Durbin (312- 353-4952 dick (at) durbin.senate.gov) to vote "NO" on Plan Colombia this time!



Tax Day, Thursday, April 15th, 2004

4:00 PM - Gather to protest Plan Colombia at Federal Plaza

4:45 PM - Rally at DePaul University (downtown), 1 East Jackson Boulevard

5:15 PM - Parade to Colombian Consulate, 500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2040.



ENDORSED BY: Colombia Solidarity Committee, Colombia Action Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, NEIU Alliance to Boycott Coke, Student Labor Action Project, United Students Against Sweatshops, Mexico Solidarity Network, Pilsen
Greens, La Voz de los de Abajo, DePaul Coalition Against Coca-Cola.




Contact: (773) 844 3612
www.colombiaactionnetwork.org