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Teamsters Demand Action from Coca-Cola on Global Rights Standards

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Conference Director and Teamster International Vice President, Jack
Cipriani, said Coca-Cola's labor abuses in the United States includes
harassment, intimidation, discrimination and retaliation at CCE facilities as
well as at Odwalla and Minute Maid operations-both wholly owned by the Coca-
Cola Company.

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Irvine, USA (Ret. "Our members in South Africa support you in your demand that
Coca-Cola institute a human rights policy," Katishi said.

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Lunch will be provided.
Conference of Catholic Bishops

* Rabbi Brian Walt , Rabbis for Human Rights

* Elisa Massimino, Washington Director, Human Rights First (moderator )

WHAT: Lunch Briefing on the McCain Amendment on Torture and Abuse

WHERE: Longworth House Office Building Room 1537

WHEN: Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 12:45 - 1:45 p.

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Resolution Calls for Mediated Settlement

WASHINGTON, In response to a growing international
campaign by students, labor and other groups protesting human rights
violations at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia and around the world,
delegates to the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference
unanimously endorsed a resolution today authorizing its leadership to seek a
just resolution of this dispute between the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and
student , labor and human rights groups.
"Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in
Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered," said Jim
Hoffa, Teamsters General President.

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WHO:

* Brigadier General David R.
After the resolution was passed, delegates heard from Katishi Masemola,
General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), which
represents approximately 6,000 Coca-Cola workers at three bottling plants in
South Africa."
In an effort to reach out to the students who are spearheading campus
protests against Coca-Cola, Teamsters will address a national meeting of the
United Students Against Sweatshops later this week.

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"It's long past time for Coca-Cola to
negotiate a global human rights agreement that will protect the rights and
safety of workers who produce, package and distribute Coca-Cola products.

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The McCain amendment would be an important step toward
making sure that government -sponsored torture and abuse stops and does not
recur. Stephen Colecchi, Director, Office of Int'l Justice and Peace, U.S.

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Irvine taught
prisoner interrogation and military law for 18 years with the Sixth
Army Intelligence School

* William Howard Taft IV, former Legal Advisor to Secretary Powell and
former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defense under President
Reagan

* Dr. We look
forward to working with the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Conference
towards concrete solutions to these human rights indignities.

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More colleges and universities are likely to follow.

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"No worker should
have to endure the abuse that our fellow workers in Columbia have had.

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Senior Defense and Religious Leaders to Hold Lunch Briefing on the McCain Amendment on Torture and Abuse

The McCain amendment would prohibit the Defense Department from using any
interrogation practices other than those listed in the Army Field Manual on
Intelligence Interrogation and would reinforce the long-standing ban on the
federal government engaging in cruel , inhuman, and degrading treatment
throughout the world.

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WASHINGTON, Senior defense and religious leaders
will hold a press briefing to discuss the importance of the McCain amendment
to the Defense Department Appropriations and Authorization bills.m.
In the United States, student protests have led to universities such as
Rutgers and the University of Michigan to cancel lucrative contracts for Coca-
Cola products.

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"Coca-Cola's refusal to take the students seriously is having a direct
impact on the company, its reputation and the Teamsters who service university
contracts," said Joe Wojciechowski, President of Teamsters Local 812, which
represents nearly 2,000 Coca-Cola workers in New York.

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