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Pepsi Tries to Get Police to Stop Protest



Pepsi Tries to Get Police to Stop Protest

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. 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. A second police car was called to the scene and similarly took no
action against the protestors. Few people entered the restaurant during the
high-visibility "Chicken and Slavery" demonstration organized by the
Pepsi-Burma Boycott Committee.
"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."
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.
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. "This kind of slave labor has been documented by many human
rights groups and submitted to the UN Commission on Human Rights. Pepsi
refuses to stop the practice despite appeals for it to stop that date to
1994. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it."
Burma has been labelled the "South Africa of the 1990s" due to attention
paid to a growing divestment campaign. Companies such as Levi-Straus, Liz
Claiborne and Eddie Bauer have withdrawn from Burma, while cities and
universities have called on the remaining companies to withdraw.
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.
 
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