March 23: Hear Edgar Paez, Colombian Union Organizer targeted by Coke

Latin America Solidarity Committee, 21.03.2008 16:51

Union Organizers Targeted by Coca-Cola in Colombia

Hear Edgar Paez of the National Food Industry Workers' Union in
Colombia

Sunday, March 23, 7pm

Brewing Grounds for Change Coffee Shop
(Milwaukee's only 100% fair-trade coffee shop)
2008 North Farwell, Milwaukee

Free and open to the public

In recent years, hundreds of workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants have
been tortured, kidnapped, illegally detained, and even assassinated by
violent right-wing paramilitary groups who work closely with plant
management.

Edgar Paez is part of the international mission of the National Food
Industry Workers Union in Colombia, known as SINALTRAINAL. Paez has
dedicated his entire life to organizing workers and has worked
actively in connecting social struggles both in Colombia and the world
over. He is a member of the Operating Committee for the Social
Observatory of transnational businesses, megaprojects, human rights
and the Permanent Tribunal of the Pueblos Sesión, Colombia.

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