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Resolution Calls for Mediated Settlement

WASHINGTON, In response to a growing international
campaign by students, labor and other groups protesting human rights
violations at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia and around the world,
delegates to the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference
unanimously endorsed a resolution today authorizing its leadership to seek a
just resolution of this dispute between the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) and
student , labor and human rights groups.

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"It's long past time for Coca-Cola to
negotiate a global human rights agreement that will protect the rights and
safety of workers who produce, package and distribute Coca-Cola products.5 versions of its software and plans
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"Our union brothers and sisters at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in
Colombia have been threatened, kidnapped, tortured and murdered," said Jim
Hoffa, Teamsters General President .
After the resolution was passed, delegates heard from Katishi Masemola,
General Secretary of the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), which
represents approximately 6,000 Coca-Cola workers at three bottling plants in
South Africa. PHOENIX, Ariz."
Patrick Carey, IBM Business Consulting Services' higher education leader
states, "IBM believes that by combining our talents and resources with rSmart,
paired with our mutual and passionate interest in higher education, we can
create the critical synergies needed for the success of the Sakai project as
well as future open source projects.

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IBM, the world's largest consulting, services and information technology
company, helps improve education throughout the world.

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The Sakai Project is building and releasing online course management,
collaboration and research team support software based on open source
standards and licenses. IBM's products and services allow
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IBM draws on its world-class portfolio of services, software and
hardware solutions to help clients realize the full potential of their
technology investments. For more on
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In the United States, student protests have led to universities such as
Rutgers and the University of Michigan to cancel lucrative contracts for Coca-
Cola products. Barker adds, "The rSmart group is a leader in
providing subscription based application support for education institutions
that run Sakai and OSPI, an open source ePortfolio application, as well as
Kuali, an open source financial system. As an active member of open
source projects like OSPI, Kuali, and Sakai, rSmart is able to provide its
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More colleges and universities are likely to follow.ibm .

About Sakai
The Sakai Project, a landmark venture to create open-source course
management , collaboration and online research support tools for the higher
education community, involves more than 70 universities, colleges and
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"Our members in South Africa support you in your demand that
Coca-Cola institute a human rights policy," Katishi said.

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"Coca-Cola's refusal to take the students seriously is having a direct
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In an effort to reach out to the students who are spearheading campus
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We look
forward to working with the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Conference
towards concrete solutions to these human rights indignities., The rSmart Group, the leading open
source application software company serving higher education, today announced
it is teaming with IBM in support of the Sakai Project.com/developerworks/opensource.

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Select companies like rSmart and IBM have been
invited to join the Sakai Project as Sakai Commercial Affiliates (SCA) to
provide world-class development and customer support for Sakai software." Coppola adds , "We are excited that
IBM has joined the Sakai project and look forward to accelerating the pace of
development and adoption and distribution of Sakai software, an important
contribution to higher education.ibm.

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About The rSmart Group
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serving the higher education market. For more than 80
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"IBM's commitment to open source solutions and a services oriented
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Conference Director and Teamster International Vice President, Jack
Cipriani, said Coca -Cola's labor abuses in the United States includes
harassment, intimidation, discrimination and retaliation at CCE facilities as
well as at Odwalla and Minute Maid operations-both wholly owned by the Coca -
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"No worker should
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rSmart to offer colleges and universities open source applications that break
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