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97% of all human rights violations in Colombia are not being prosecuted. Therefore social movements have invited the "Permanent Tribunal of the People" to judge the crimes committed by the Columbian state and the transnational corporations which operate in Columbia. The tribunal is inspired by the Russell-Tribunal, which judged the crimes committed in the Vietnam War.
On 1 and 2 April 2006 the Columbian section of the Tribunal took place in Bogotá. The topics of this tribunal are the crimes of transnational corporations concerning their involvement with the paramilitary forces and state terrorism in Colombia. The corporations Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Chiquita Brands are on the agenda. Other topics include gold, oil, coal, biodiversity and public services. The tribunal, populated with renowned lawyers, will come to a conclusion in July 2008.
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| please translate this description: 24.04.2010, Berlin - Kundgebung zum Gedenken an die 41 Gewerkschafter, die im Jahr 2009 in Kolumbien ermordet wurden. Redebeiträge vom Arbeitskreis Internationalismus in der IG Metall, amnesty international Berlin-Brandenburg und der Kolumbienkampagne erläutern, wieso jedes Jahr in Kolumbien ... more |
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| Javier Correa testifies. Being the chairman of Sinaltrainal and working for Coca-Cola has experienced hate calls, death threats against himself and his family, kidnapping of his children, slander campaigns amongst his fellow workers, an official complaint for founding a criminal association, detentions and two attempted assassinations. Correa points out that his case is not unique and that he and other unionists ... more |
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length: 7,65 min
| date: 03.04.2006
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| April, 02. 2006, Bogotá - The chairwoman reads the central part of the verdict of the jury. They find Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Chiquita, as well as the Colombian state guilty. In addition the USA and Switzerland, where the headquarters of the corporations reside, are called upon to take care of international standards and norms. |
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length: 9 min
| date: 03.04.2006
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| April, 02. 2006, Bogota - The jury of the Permanent Tribunal of the People read their verdict. To begin with, Omar Rodríguez, publisher of the Colombian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, reads the summary, of the accusations brought bevor the court. |
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length: 3,20 min
| date: 03.04.2006
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| April, 02. 2006, Bogota - Gianni Tognioni, general secretary of the Permanent Tribunal by the People, reads the first part of the decision of the jury. While the collaboration of the paramilitaries and the Colombian state is proven, the collaboration of the transnational corporations with the paramilitaries is much more difficult to prove. But Tognioni designates mutiple documents, which make such a ... more |
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length: 4,40 min
| date: 03.04.2006
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| April, 02. 2006, Bogotá - Carlos Olaya talks about what the globalisation means for Colombia. He pleads for a broad movement against hunger. |
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length: 3,20 min
| date: 03.04.2006
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| April, 01. 2006, Bogota - Dr. Pedro Mahecha, human rights activis and member of the lawyer-collective Alvear Restrepo summarises the case of Isidro Gil: "Who ordered the murder? Who was interested in this crime? Who had an advantage of the banishment of the union? Who is interested in not enlightening the crime? Who denounces the workers when they denounce a murder? |
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length: 7,20 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| April, 01. 2006, Bogotá - Pedro Mahecha from the lawyer collective Pedro Alvear restrepo, demands the exclusion of Colombia from the UNO and the Organization of the American states. |
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length: 1,20 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| April, 01. 2006, Bogotá - Alejandro Garcia, a lawyer Sinaltrainal, tries to explain to the foreign members of the tribunal that the killings of unionists in Colombia stays unpunished. The attorneys do not start any investigations. The army has a list of names with all leaders of the unions, he tells. |
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length: 4,30 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| April, 1. 2006, Bogotá - Nestlé Colombia is being accussed of precarious working conditions. A representative of "lawyers united for workers' rights" describes the worsening of working conditions and drastic reduction of wages in the past 10 years. |
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length: 3 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| April, 01. 2006, Bogotá - The case of Luciano Romero, worker and unionist at Cicolac/Nestlé, is presented. He was murdered on September 11th, 2005. |
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length: 3,10 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| April, 01. 2006, Bogotá - The Permanent Tribunal of the People, Section Colombia is opened. The inaugural address is held by Jesuit and human rights activist Javier Giraldo. The institutional violence of the military, the police and the paramilitary forces aim at destroying all social movements, which fight against the socio-economic and political structure. |
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length: 8,20 min
| date: 02.04.2006
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| March, 31. 2006, Bogotá - Ciudad Bolivar is a slum in which 1.3 million live, mostly people who were evicted from their land. 400 young people were killed here last year. Mongui Gomez from "Organización Femenina Popular" talsk about pverty, police brutallity, and the collaboration of police and paramilitary forces. |
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length: 7,10 min
| date: 01.04.2006
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| March, 30. 2006, Bogotá - Attorney Ramiro Marin Vasquez talks about impunity in Colombia. "We have to sacrifice some justice, but we get more truth and compensation." |
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length: 2,50 min
| date: 01.04.2006
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| 30.03.2006, Bogotá - Ivan Cepeda Varga, human rights activist and author answers the question, why social movements in Colombia speak of state terrorism when describing the political situation. Sepeda is the son of a member of Parliament from the Union Patriotica who was murdered in 1994. The Colombian state tries to appear in a democratic light but it acts very repressive on a broad scale with military force, ... more |
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length: 4,20 min
| date: 31.03.2006
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30.03.2006, Bogotá - Carlos Olaya on the displacement of smaller producers from the market on food. "Transnational corporations hold 70% of the market in Colombia. Two big corporations hold 25% of this market. For the smaller producers they ownly hold 5%."
On the other hand Colombia has increased the import of food. Due to the free trade agreement with the USA the pressure on small rural producers ... more |
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length: 4 min
| date: 31.03.2006
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| 30.03.2006, Bogotá - Carlos Olaya talks about the connection of hunger and poverty and the politics of national and transnational food-corporations. Coffee: Through the monopolistic politics of Nestlé, Cargill, Procter&Gambler and Kraft Food the price of coffee has fallen more for than 60%. Thus 150.000 coffee producing families lost their land and 500.000 people their jobs. |
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length: 4 min
| date: 31.03.2006
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| Bogotá, 30.03.2006 - Carlos Olaya reports on the degree of poverty in Colombia. 30 million from 44 million are poor. 14% of the children are chronically malnourished. During the last five years, 40.000 people died from hunger, of which 20.000 were old. |
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length: 3,40 min
| date: 30.03.2006
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| Bogotá, 29.03.2006 - Gonzalo Quijano explains the court proceedings against Coca-Cola, which are pending at Florida (US) court. One of the cases is on the kidnapping of Jorge Leal. He was hijacked to Venezuela. The union got a letter which threatend to kill Jorge Leal if the union keeps on mobilising against Coca-Cola. |
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length: 4 min
| date: 29.03.2006
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Gozalo Quijano, representative of the union Sinaltrainal in Bogotá sends greetings to the Coca-Cola campaign in Germany to support the mobilisation.
Coca-Cola is one of the sponsors of FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany . |
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length: 3,40 min
| date: 28.03.2006
| video-hits: 2.956
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Tell Nestle to Stop buying Child Made Cocoa
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Along with other major players in the chocolate industry, Nestle USA committed to ending child labor on cocoa farms by July 2005. But four years after the world first learned of child labor abuses on West African cocoa farms little has been accomplished and the problem continues unabated.
29.03.2006 hits: 6506
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Chiquita"s Trail of Death and Corruption in Turbo, Colombia
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Chiquita Brands has a history of corruption in small ports like Turbo, Colombia. With the rise of Bush crony and Medellin cartel boss Alvaro Uribe Velez, they now act with complete impunity. Here are two typical vignetttes: one of corruption and another of terrorism.
28.03.2006 hits: 9801
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Chiquita admits payments to terror groups
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One day after Chiquita Brands International disclosed that its Colombian subsidiary made payments to groups designated as "terrorist organizations" by the United States, shares in the world"s biggest banana-producing company yesterday fell by nearly 5 percent.
28.03.2006 hits: 5802
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Chiquita Bananas admits financing terrorist organisations
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On Monday 11 May, Chiquita Bananas, the North American banana company, publicly admitted that they financed a terrorist group in Colombia. They refused to name which group, or how much they paid or for how long.
They just released the following statement " The voluntary admission to the Department of Justice was made because the companys administration found out that this group had been classified as a terrorist group, and that under United States law, it is a crime to assist or support this type of organisation."
28.03.2006 hits: 5537
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Neoliberalism Colombian Style
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With his discourse of "democratic security," President Álvaro Uribe Velez goal--as it was during his term as governor of Antioquia from 1995-97--is to incorporate civilians (one million of them) into the repressive organs of the state as informants in order to deepen neoliberal development patterns. Along with a declaration of "internal commotion," as permitted by the 1991 Constitution, Uribes first act as president was to install a pilot program of civilian spies in the department of César. The regional government of Córdoba has asked to be next. Following the suggestion of US ambassador Anne Patterson, Uribe has also announced plans to call up reservists. Further, he hopes to turn 20,000 peasants into soldiers overnight.
28.03.2006 hits: 5505
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Coalition campaigns against Coca-Cola
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Coke Free Coalition, a coalition of students from several student groups, demonstrated last week in opposition to having Coca-Cola products on campus.
The group cites human rights violations by Coca-Cola involving Colombian paramilitary fighters and alleged murders of Colombian union organizers, among other issues.
28.03.2006 hits: 8053
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Another "Classic Coke" Move to Deny and Delay Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Colombia
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Coca-Cola and its ally, the International Union of Food Workers (IUF), have announced that they will jointly "request" the International Labor Organization (ILO) to conduct an investigation of Coca-Colas operations in Colombia. To the uninformed, this might appear to be progress towards an independent investigation of Coca-Colas complicity in violence against trade union leaders at its bottling plants in Colombia. Since 1989, seven union leaders who worked at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia and a plant manager friendly to SINALTRAINAL (National Food Service Workers Union), the major union representing Coca-Cola workers, have been murdered in connection with their union activities and countless others have been threatened with death, kidnapped and tortured.
28.03.2006 hits: 7196
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Breaking the silence over Colombian repression
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The situation is appalling. At a meeting with CUT (Colombias equivalent of the TUC) we were told that since the beginning of 2005 there have been around 100 union activists murdered and many more have been tortured, imprisoned or "disappeared"....
28.03.2006 hits: 5007
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Nestlé and Fairtrade - PR coup or PR disaster?
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Nestlé has one Fairtrade product amongst its range of 8,500: Partners Blend coffee. On this page we aim to track how Nestlé uses the Fairtrade mark in its attempts to divert criticism of its malpractice.
28.03.2006 hits: 4606
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Alien Tort Claims Act: Colombia
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SINALTRAINAL is a union of workers employed in the food industry in Colombia. Members work in the factories of multinational corporations such as Coca Cola, Nestle, Burns Philps, Nabisco Royal Inc., Corn Products Corporations, Postobon, Friesland and Lechesan. The union was developed in 1982 to unite workers that were struggling in factories so that they might collectively address the human rights violations occurring in the commercial food sector.
28.03.2006 hits: 2996
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Coca Cola boycotted for (complicity in) murder
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Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world to be
a trade unionist with intimidation and murders being
committed almost daily. Coca Cola is currently being sued
by the Colombian food and drinks union Sinaltrainal for its
(alleged) use of right wing paramilitary death squads at
its plants in Colombia. The company has denied the
allegations and predictably claims that it has no
responsibility for the actions of the bottling plants.
28.03.2006 hits: 3202
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