Launch - `Defend Trades Unions in Colombia campaign' "If you love life, don't drink Coca-Cola products!"

Key note speaker:
Edgar Paez, National Director of Colombia Food Union

Thursday 13^th May 2010

6:30pm

Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart

Edgar will be in Australia in a speaking tour organised by Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) from April 26th to May 18th, he will visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania, Interested for interviews, meetings in these cities with Edgar send an e-mail to: lasnet@latinlasnet.org or call 0400 914 944 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0400 914 944      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

In recent years, hundreds of workers at Coca-Cola bottling plants have been tortured, kidnapped, illegally detained, and even assassinated by violent right-wing paramilitary groups who work closely with plant management.

Edgar Paez has dedicated his entire life to organizing workers and has worked actively in connecting social struggles both in Colombia and the world over. He has been closely involved in the campaign to expose the role of Coca-Cola in murdering Colombian trade unionists.He is a member of the Operating Committee for the Social Observatory of transnational businesses, megaprojects, human rights and the Permanent Tribunal of the Pueblos Sesión, Colombia.