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...extremist protesters”—have had some limited success in protesting Coke, but they are hoping the Bombay forum will provide a chance to join forces with a union boycott of Coke led by Sinaltrainal, Colombia’s largest food and bottling union, the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union. The protesters allege collusion between Coca-Cola and a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which the U.S. State Department classifies as a terrorist organization, in the intimidation and assassination of union members in Coke bottling plants in Colombia...
...members of my Institute of Politics (IOP) study group on social protest movements, were victims of an extraordinary show of police power which drew sharp criticisms from the Florida Council of Churches, the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter and eyewitness observers like John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. The police presence cost $8.5 million in federal funds, diverted directly from the Iraq war budget. Miami’s mayor called the preventive arrests and closure of downtown a “model of homeland security...
Last Monday, 151 people, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, were arrested during a 5,000-protester rally to support the workers...
...world." In truth, none of the plausible Democrats--not even Gephardt, who has made a career of protectionism--could do much more than rant about international labor and environmental standards if elected. The economic risks of tariffs are too great. But the posturing seems to be intensifying. The AFL-CIO endorsement is up for grabs, and several of the big unions that had planned to endorse Gephardt and Kerry are having second thoughts, given the Dean surge...
Saturday’s protesters slowly marched from the New Haven green, winding past the Yale-New Haven Medical Center to the intersection of York and Elm Streets, where 151 people, including AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, were arrested...