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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services, a firm that Harvard employs. The campaign focuses on securing workers their legal right to unionize without fear of reprisal. A national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, Camilo A. Romero, translated a speech delivered by Gerrardo Cajamarca, a former Coke employee in Colombia who now works for the Colombian food and beverages workers union Sinal Trainal. Cajamarca charged that Coke-funded paramilitaries had assassinated eight Colomobian unionizers. Through Romero, Cajamarca said, “this is an effort to sew fear, sew terror in the hearts of these workers...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Activists SLAM Coke, Security Firm | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...under their own roofs. It is a complaint heard from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea: national governments make deals, and the locals get shortchanged. As a result, local protests are stalling at least 10 mining-investment projects in Peru that are worth $1.4 billion. In the northern town of Cajamarca, whose decade-old Yanacocha gold mine is the world's second largest, residents are loudly demonstrating against expansion plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha mined 2.3 million oz. of gold last year and earned $700 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining: Not Golden | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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