"Killer Coke" stencils painted over in various locations around Dublin by two plain clothes men

dublin | anti-capitalism | news report Wednesday September 10, 2003 01:42 by Indymedia Kevin - IMC Éire

First they get painted, then they get painted over.

Here is the stencil up on the LUAS hoardings at the south end of O'Connell Street...

About a week ago, I was wandering around town recently when I noticed a fresh batch of large stencils spray painted up on hoardings. Two locations I can remember off the top of my head were the LUAS works at the south end of O'Connell Street, and at the Church being converted into a bar, at the junction of Mary Street and Jervis Street.

The text on these stencils read: "Killer Coke: Coca-Cola bottling plant managers in Columbia, South America allowed and encouraged paramilitary death squads to murder, torture and kidnap SINALTRAINAL leaders and members in an effort to crush their union. Dont buy Coca-Cola products. Info: [email protected]"

The following day, I saw two men spray painting over these new stencils on O'Connell Street. They had no luminous green workers jackets on, and were in their early thirties, roughly. Unfortunately I was on my bike and did not have the camera with me, so could not photograph them in the act.

There is other graffitti around that they did not paint over. There is the usual stuff, "Rats wos 'ere" etc, but there is also some anti war slogans around the other side of the LUAS hoarding. None of this was touched. Down at the Mary Street hoarding the only stuff painted over was also the anti Coke stencils - the anarchist symbols in addition to "No Borders, No Nations, Just people" and "Question Everything" left alone for the public eye.

I wonder who the people painting over the anti Coke stencils were?

For more information on the Coke Boycott being organised in this country, you can get in touch with the Latin American Solidarty Campaign, their website is http://www.lasc.ie . Their office on Merrion Row contains a large amount of books and information about various struggles happening in Central & South America at the moment.

Boycott Coke site: http://www.boycottcoke.org/boycott/coke.phtml

Columbia Solidarity UK pages:
http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/cocacolacampaign.html

Coke Watch:
http://www.cokewatch.org/

A full list of ALL Coca-Cola products (from the horses mouth):
http://www2.coca-cola.com/brands/brandlist.html#top

Photos from the launch of the Coke Boycott by the LASC on Grafton Street:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60568

... and then here it is a couple of days later, spray painted over.