Friends:
The community led struggles against Coca-Cola have started out very strong in 2005. This promises to be a difficult year for Coca-Cola in India. Support the campaign by sending a fax to Coca-Cola.
India Resource Center

PRESS: Second Massive Protest Against Coca-Cola in India in New Year
January 13, 2005
 http://www.indiaresource.org/press/2005/plachimadablockjan.html
On January 15, 2005, over a thousand people are expected to take part in blockading the entrance to Coca-Cola's single largest bottling plant in India - in Plachimada, Kerala - to demand that the bottling plant shut down permanently. January 15 also marks the 1000th day anniversary of a permanent dharna (vigil) that has been set up directly in front of the factory gates by the local community groups rallying against the Coca-Cola plant in the southern state of Kerala.

TAKE ACTION: Protest Coca-Cola's Violence in India!
January 1, 2005
 http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcoke.php
Send a free fax to the CEO of Coca-Cola to demand an end to the violent suppression of community resistance to Coca-Cola in India and also demand that Coca-Cola stop destroying lives, livelihoods and communities in India, Colombia and internationally.

PRESS: Over 500 March to Condemn Violence at Coca-Cola Protest in Mehdiganj
Posted: January 7, 2005
 http://www.indiaresource.org/press/2005/mehdiganjactionjan6.html
Over 500 community residents from Mehdiganj and surrounding villages marched towards the gates of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Mehdiganj on January 6, 2005. Protesters marched with their mouths covered by black ribbons and their hands tied to specifically bring attention to the non-violent nature of the community-led campaign and to protest the violence directed at the demonstrators on November 24, 2004.