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Vancouver sings Coke is the Drink of the Death Squads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GXdfJ2nxE

Quick Solidarity Notes Choir performance at a transit station in Vancouver of a song by David Rovics, in front of Coke advertising , just before transit police arrive. Coke is an official sponsor of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver beginning Feb. 12.

Lyrics to Drink Of The Death Squads :

Coca-Cola came to Colombia Seeking lower wages

They got just what they came for

But as we turn the pages

We find the workers didn't like the sound

Of their children's hungry cries

So they said we'll join the union

And they began to organize

So Coke called up a terrorist group

Called the AUC

They said "we've got some problems At the factory"

So these thugs went to the plant

Killed two union men

Told the rest, "you leave the union

Or we'll be back again"

Now Coke did not complain

About this dirty deed

Why give workers higher wages

When Coke is all they really need

They phoned the AUC

Said "thanks, without you we'd go broke

And to show our appreciation

Zanon "factory without bosses" -- FaSINPat ("Fabrica Sin Patrones")

Heart of the Factory Zanon/FaSinPat in Argentina is the only factory in the world where workers' management has been operating for more than four years.

The documentary captures the remarkable story of this "factory without bosses" -- FaSINPat ("Fabrica Sin Patrones"). Since the country went bankrupt in 2001, due to government and corporate looting, Zanon/Fasinpat workers have been challenging traditional assumptions about work, workers, globalization and capitalism; they make collective decisions in a popular assembly, all earn the same pay, rotate supervisory tasks, make safety a priority, and give back to the neediest from the surplus that the factory produces.

Filmmakers Ernesto Ardito and Virna Molina shot the film over the course of a year, gives many insights to the current global financial meltdown. It is their second film following Raymundo (2003), the story of disappeared filmmaker, Raymundo Gleyzer, one of the founders of the New Latin American Cinema, which won more than 15 international award

RELATED: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaSinPat

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