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VIETNAM WAR Battlefield Protests Troops saw the quagmire before their leaders did. In 1965 a lieutenant was court-martialed for marching in a protest with a sign calling President Johnson a "fascist aggressor...
Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions. They allege that nine Coca-Cola bottling employees have been murdered over the past 12 years. Union leaders accuse bosses of allowing paramilitaries access to the plants...
...COLOMBIA Soft Drink, Hard Times Activists launched a consumer boycott of Coca-Cola products to protest killings, kidnappings and torture of union members working at the company's Colombian bottling plants. The campaign, titled "Unthinkable, Undrinkable," has been endorsed by labor activists in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Organizers claim plant managers called on ultra-right paramilitary death squads to bully and assassinate workers from Colombia's Sinaltrainal food industry union, silencing demands for better working conditions...
...despite growing opposition back home and plummeting poll ratings. But an issue has emerged that may force the British Prime Minister to stand up and tell Bush, "No more." As Blair heads for Washington this week to address Congress, most of the British political establishment is pressuring him to protest the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held in isolation at Camp Delta, the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, won't be returned to Britain for trial despite repeated requests. Instead, the two are expected to face U.S. military tribunals, whose due-process standards are criticized throughout Europe as shameful...
...Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said it was too early to give an exact cause. Junta Under Pressure BURMA U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan added to pressure on the ruling generals by calling...