Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Talk by Daniel Kovalik: COKE, COLOMBIA, AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Updated)

Coalition Against Coke Contracts (CACC) presents

“COKE, COLOMBIA, AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
A public talk by Daniel Kovalik


WHEN: THURSDAY, April 27th at 7:00 pm
WHERE: 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana

(Northwest corner of Goodwin and Gregory)

Free and open to the public


About Daniel Kovalik:
Daniel Kovalik graduated from the Columbia University School of Law in 1993 and joined the United Steelworkers of America as Assistant General Counsel. During his time there, he has been the co-chief counsel in Alien Tort Claims Act cases against Coca-Cola and Drummond, and has been the Associate Editor of "Developing Labor Law." He is also the recipient of the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship in 2002 and the Project Censored Award for 3rd Most Significant Censored Story of 2001.

A few of his publications are available online.

Update: Here is a link to streaming audio of his talk. Read more!

April 27th Meeting Cancelled

The meeting for Thursday, April 27th has been cancelled.
There will be no meetings this semester. If you would like to get involved in the campaign, please contact us at cokeactiongroup@riseup.net
In solidarity,
CACC


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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Recent Articles

The Case Against Coke

By Michael Blanding
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/blanding

Water as Commodity and Weapon:
The Corporate Hijack of India's Water

By P. Sainath
http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath04122006.html

Read more!