Colombia: Coca Cola is Drenched with Workers’ Blood

Colombia: Coca Cola is Drenched with Workers’ Blood

On July 20, 2001, 20 years ago today, a group of unions filed a lawsuit against the Coca Cola company, accusing Coca Cola’s Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the...
Woody Guthrie: Songwriter of the Working Class

Woody Guthrie: Songwriter of the Working Class

On July 14 we celebrate the birthday of Woody Guthrie, the Oklahoma born singer-songwriter famous for writing and performing This Land is Your Land.  Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912, and picked up music as a teenager by listening to English and Scottish folk...