The Coca Cola Case

This screening is presented in conjunction with The Council of Canadians. http://canadians.org/

Panel discussion to follow the film including:

German Gutierrez (Director, The Coca Cola Case)

Born in Colombia, German Gutierrez studied Drama in Paris before moving to Quebec over 30 years ago. After studying filmmaking, he first worked as an assistant cameraman and later as a cameraman for Radio-Canada, the National Film Board and a variety of production companies. While continuing to act as a director of photography on a wide range of productions, he soon moved on to directing, initially focusing on social and political issues. This work soon took him to the four corners of the earth, often to conflict zones: Cambodia, Sarajevo, South Africa, Rwanda and El Salvador.

Ray Rogers (Director, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke)

Ray Rogers is founder and director of New York City based Corporate Campaign Inc. (CCI), which has championed labor, human rights and environmental causes for three decades. Time magazine said Rogers has “brought some of the most powerful corporations to their knees, and his ideas are spreading.”  Rogers and his organization have been featured many times in major publications such as Time, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and Atlanta Journal Constitution as well as many television and radio programs and newscasts worldwide. His work as a labor strategist has led to many college and universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Harvard Business School, to conduct case studies on CCI’s campaigns, strategies, and tactics.

Gauri Sreenivasan (Canadian Council for International Co-operation)

Gauri Sreenivasan is Policy Coordinator at the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), and leads CCIC’s Global Economic Justice Program. She has written extensively on international trade and investment issues. Gauri was a contributing author and the overall editor of Making a Bad Situation Worse: An Analysis of the Text of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, a joint publication of CCIC, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Canadian Labor Congress and the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.

Nelson Ross Laguna (Ontario Public Service Employees Union)

Nelson Ross Laguna resides in Ottawa and currently works as a Staff Representative for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). He has been active with the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke since he became aware of it in 2004. He was a leader in passing a motion within OPSEU to ban Coca Cola from all of their events and offices and to continue a campaign against Coca-Cola and free trade with Colombia. He is also a member of Exile Infoshop in Ottawa, a radical space dedicated to social equality, in addition to volunteering with the Industrial Workers of the World (Ottawa).