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...paramilitary troops entered a Coke bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia and murdered for Isidro Gil, a Sinaltrainal leader spearheading the fight for a new contract. Hours later, a paramilitary squad set fire to the Sinaltrainal offices in Carepa, and two days later gunmen entered the plant again and forced workers to terminate their union membership under threat of death. These stories are sickeningly commonplace in Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world for union members with 1,800 confirmed murdered over the last 12 years, and only five of those murders resulting in convictions...
...years ago, Sinaltrainal filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Coke and two of its bottlers, Miami-based Panamerican Beverages and the American-owned Bebidas y Alimentos of Colombia for the murder of Gil and eight other Sinaltrainal members since the early ’90s. Last year that court found that the suit could continue against the bottling plants—but not Coke, because it does not own the plants. The decision is under appeal...
...even at this unsophisticated stage of sexual maturation, there's more going on in kids than simply developing an exquisite reproductive itch and learning the wonderful ways it can be scratched. "More and more in our field, we don't even talk about sex anymore," says anthropologist Gil Herdt, director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. "We talk about sexuality. It's something that involves the entire person, the whole life course, not just the sexual acts...
...soldiers in hospitals. But the tousle-haired 22-year-old at whose bedside the chief of Israel's army sat last week was a civilian, and it wasn't a Palestinian bullet that severed an artery in his left leg and destroyed his right knee. An Israeli soldier shot Gil Naamati as he protested at the section of the "security fence" that cuts through the West Bank village of Masha. Naamati was hit by live ammunition after he clipped a piece of razor wire. "You shouldn't have done that," Yaalon said quietly. "I know," Naamati replied, shrugging...
...some West Bank settlements to create a "disengagement" line between Palestinians and Israelis. TIME has learned that Sharon has made no fewer than eight reconnaissance visits to its route. If "disengagement" is to work, the army will need to figure out a gentler way to grapple with protesters like Gil Naamati...