Pepsi Asks Police To Stop Protest

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Subject: Re: Pepsi Asks Police To Stop Protest

>Article: 2091 of soc.culture.burma
>From: brischmidt@xxxxxxx (Brischmidt)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.burma
>Subject: Pepsi asks police to stop protest
>Date: 29 Apr 1995 22:22:33 -0400
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>Pepsi Tries to Get Police to Stop Protest
>more information, contact Bob Gaulke, 230-9029
 
>Portland OR, April 29:  Pepsi-owned Kentucky Fried Chicken called Portland
>police in an unsuccessful attempt to stop a protest in front of a
>restaurant today in downtown Portland. 

       *If it is in Burma, KFC can just bribe police and police will do what
it wants. That is what BSPP's "Burmese Way to Socialism" means.  

>The demonstration was organized to protest Pepsi's investment in Burma and 
>export of slave labor production. "What I see here is a legal demonstration," 
>said one police officer who refused to intervene. 
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       *I salute that police officer. \/l\.  It is the true law enforcement
officer. Those grand-old BSPP's and SLORC's officers should learn from it.  
                                         
>Few people entered the restaurant during high-visibility "Chicken and Slavery"
>demonstration organized by the Pepsi-Burma Boycott Committee.

	*"Burmese Blood and Pepsi" is also the same. 

>"We're just seeing Pepsi's usual reaction to democracy when they tried
>to shut us down," said Brian Schmidt, a boycott committee volunteer. "From
>paying taxes that keep a Nobel Peace Prize Winner imprisoned, to the
>export of slave labor agriculture which they pass of as 'small farmer
>produce,' and to refusing their shareholders a chance to vote on the
>issue, Pepsi has shown a contempt for democracy. The way people should
>respond to Pepsi is by voting with their wallets and boycotting its
>products and those of the other big investors, Unocal and Texaco."

	*Thank you Mr. Schmidt. There are some people out there still thinking
money making business has nothing to do with human ethic. I hope they learn
from your words.
	
>Diane Mechling, another protestor, said "People had a very positive
>reaction. We gave handed information to a lot of passing cars, and many
>people waved to us or honked their horns in support of the protest." Ten
>protestors handed out hundreds of leaflets and promoted the boycott
>alongside busy West Burnside and 21st Street.

	*I totally support you too.

>The protest had special concern for Pepsi's connection to slavery in
>Burma. "For years Pepsi has purchased cash crops like sesame seeds in the
>Burmese market where military front companies sell crops made from slave
>labor camps in the frontier areas where they attack hill-tribe people,"
>said Brian Schmidt. 

	*Not only that. SLORC also forces the farmers in the whole part of
Burma to sell crops with the price that is set up by government. So it is a
kind of SLORC's half-robbed property. And SLORC will sell it to Pepsi and spend
profits to build stronger military to kill students, monks, priests, and
villagers, that is currently going on in Burma-Thai border. 

			{.........}

>The Pepsi-Burma Boycott Committee is a grassroots group that advocates
>consumer boycotts of business investing in Burma, with a primary focus on
>Pepsi. PBBC organized a boycott of the planned Starbucks-Pepsi joint
>venture which led to Starbucks' declaration that the joint venture would
>not produce in or sell to Burma. PBBC provides information and boycott
>stickers, and documents Pepsi boycott publicity nationwide.

	*I send my thanks to PBBC on behalf all refugees and slaves sufferring
under oppressive regime SLORC!