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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Protest Coke Oct. 17th |
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by Mary T
Email: mtitus100 (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
11 Oct 2002
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CocaCola is the leading employer in So.Africa and cutting vital health benefits to African employees. Many employers will follow Coke - if they are not stopped! |
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October 17, 2002, Join Health GAP, ACT UP, and AIDS activists around
the globe to demand Coca-Cola and other multinational corporations
pay for AIDS treatment for workers living with HIV/AIDS in developing
countries.
Multinational corporations like Coke are making a killing in
countries in Africa and throughout the Third World. Coke is the
largest foreign private sector employer in Africa, employing about
100,000 workers.
An international coalition of activists--from Accra to Manhattan,
from Casablanca to Oakland, from Harare to Atlanta--will target
Coca-Cola with simultaneous protests, pickets, press conferences,
marches and more on October 17, for Coke's refusal to pay for HIV
medicines for sick workers in developing countries, particularly
African countries.
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STOP MEDICAL APARTHEID -- FIGHT FOR AIDS TREATMENT FOR WORKERS
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST:
RALLY IN NYC: Join us at on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 2pm
at Coca-Cola Headquarters (711 5th Ave near 56th St).
OUTSIDE OF NYC: e-mail to salynch(+ the 'at' symbol +)healthgap.org
for local actions
or to get help planning one. |
