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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 22, 2004 23:15 by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh
Discussing the growing boycott he states.."The campaign is increasingly welcomed and as we meet new organizations in different countries we have become aware of other things that the company has done. The most recent example is India where there is a large movement. It is not the workers, though, that are protesting but the community that has been affected because the company has taken control of the underground water and also because of the dumping of industrial waste that has contaminated the water that the farmers use and something which is worrying, in the case of India, is that according to the farmers the company has distributed industrial waste to the farmers telling them that it was fertilizer for their crops. In the same way we have also come across the case of Venezuela where there is a movement of ex employees of Coca Cola that were sacked that are today organizing themselves and have begun legal action."
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Javier Correa, President of Sinaltrainal (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos-Colombia), gives an evaluation of the Coca Cola Boycott campaign one year after the beginning of the boycott.
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