On the Line
On the Line Coke and a Frown Chennai, India The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Coca-Cola Company, has threatened one of India's most prominent...
...The bill would cut the HUD budget and give local housing agencies the ability to throw out rules that protect tenants, the group says...
...March Against Murder Milwaukee On a ninety-five-degree day, more than 200 people gathered at the corner of Center and 27th streets for a rally against violence...
...and Stop the War Washington, D.C...
...on July 15 in San Francisco's Dolores Park...
...On the Line Coke and a Frown Chennai, India The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Coca-Cola Company, has threatened one of India's most prominent artists with a lawsuit if he doesn't remove a billboard...
...The union is asking consumers to stop drinking the popular wine...
...As a result, we are asking all Americans not to accept a new job at ExxonMobil, invest in the company, or to buy ExxonMobil's gas and products," the coalition said in a letter to the company's CEO, Lee Raymond...
...Among the groups supporting the boycott are the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the U.S...
...Gallo countered by accusing the union of bargaining in bad faith...
...Come to D.C...
...Haksar says he will not oblige because he has not done anything wrong...
...On July 11, Coca-Cola warned that it was seeking about $45,000 from Haksar for "incalculable damage to the goodwill and reputation of Coca-Cola...
...For more information on the boycott, contact www.gallounfair.com...
...This bill, backed by the Bush Administration, would "put millions of low-income families at risk," the group says...
...For more information, go to www.saveourhomes.org...
...He has threatened a countersuit...
...Sharad Haksar photographed a Coca-Cola sign alongside water jugs and a dry pump and posted it on a billboard in the city of Chennai to draw attention to water shortages near Coca-Cola's bottling plants...
...For more information, go to www.retiredamericans.org...
...Public Interest Research Group, Moveon.org, the Defenders of Wildlife, and the Sierra Club...
...Homeland Begins With Homes Washington, D.C...
...On June 28, about seventy-five members of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants protested at the offices of the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association...
...For years, ExxonMobil has intentionally put its own profits above a clean environment and the health of America's families...
...The company sought a written apology...
...United for Peace and Justice will be running buses to and from the protest...
...Haksar's artwork is available on www.sharadhaksar.com...
...They voiced their disapproval of the "State and Local Housing Flexibility Act...
...Wine Boycott San Francisco Protesters say "No Gallo...
...By July 25, Milwaukee had had seventy-five homicides in 2005, a 50 percent increase over last year at this time...
...For more information, go to www.Indiaresource.org...
...Truth Truck Makes 12,500-Mile Tour Hauling more than a million petitions from senior citizens, the Social Security Truth Truck spent the spring and summer trekking across the country to dramatize the dangers of Social Security privatization...
...Oil Boycott Activist groupshave joined ranks to call for a boycott of ExxonMobil, one of thelargest corporations in the United States...
...For more information, contact the Campaign Against Violence at (414) 461-2998 or send e-mail to campaignagainstviolence@gmail.com...
...Calling on Americans to "End the War on Iraq," United for Peace and Justice announces three days of protest from September 24 through 26 in Washington, D.C...
...For more information, contact www.unitedforpeace.org or e-mail ujpcoalition@yahoo.com to sign on...
...The truck made thirty-nine stops in nineteen states...
...The July 9 gathering was the fourth biweekly rally organized by the Campaign Against Violence, which is concerned about the recent rise in the number of homicides in the city of Milwaukee...
...Our coast-to-coast message is clear: Don't privatize Social Security," says George J. Kourpias, president of the Alliance of Retired Americans, which sponsored the tour...
...The Truth Truck's final stop was at the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York...
...The United Farm Workers union claims the winery is refusing to provide benefits to vineyard workers, who are currently laboring without a contract...
...In addition to a rally and anti-war fair, the protest weekend will include an interfaith service and grassroots training...
...It will also coincide with protests at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank...
...For more information on the boycott, go to www.exxposeexxon.com...
Vol. 69 • September 2005 • No. 9
