TORONTO - The Ontario Public Service Employees
Union will be amongst those holding a special screening of the
National Film Board movie The Coca Cola Case
DATES: Dec. 1 & 4, 2009
TIME: 7 p.m.
LOCATION: NFB 150 John St. (corner of
Richmond) Toronto
The Coca-Cola Case is a film about the rampant
human rights abuses by the Coca-Cola Corporation in factories,
sugar cane fields and small communities across the developing
world. One of the main focuses of the film is Coca-Cola’s
bottling plants in Colombia.
Colombia has the highest trade union murder rate
in the world. Since 2002, more than 470 activists and workers
have been kidnapped, tortured, and executed for their union
affiliation. Their deaths are linked to the paramilitaries and
in turn to corporate companies such as Coca-Cola. The
paramilitaries will stop at nothing in their efforts to silence
workers which in turn work with corporations like Coca-Cola.
“Coca-Cola perpetuates violent actions against
any worker who comes between it and its corporate profits,” says
Jen Giroux, OPSEU Executive Board Member. “It acts in a way
meant to wipe out labour and human rights – while the Uribe
government stands by and allows companies like Coca-Cola to act
with complete impunity. A Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
will only legitimize this impunity”.
OPSEU activists in the Provincial Young Workers’
Committee were pivotal in raising the profile of the “Killer
Coke” campaign among the 130,000 members of the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union.
OPSEU activists will be part of a panel
discussion following each screening. Ticket prices are $6 for adults, and $4
for NFB members, OPSEU members and students. Group rates are
available.
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