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Laura
aka The Pied Piper
http://www.corporations.org/coors/index.html
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Coors, the RIGHT beer now</A>
It's no accident that Coors is the right beer in America
by Mike Ewall
Coors beer is owned by the Coors family; a powerful,
wealthy family that
funnels the money it gets into hundreds of ultraright
wing movements from
neo-Nazi groups to anti-environmental think tanks.
Founded by Adolph Coors, the
Coors empire is a very influential force in the
U.S. government. All of the
information here has been well documented by
civil rights and environmental
groups and also in a heavily footnoted book,
The Coors Connection.
The Coors family has always had strong ties to
neo-Nazis. Adolph Coors
allowed KKK meetings and cross-burnings on brewery
property in Colorado. In 1984,
Bill Coors fought against passage of the Civil
Rights Act, telling an audience
of black businessmen that blacks don't succeed
because they "lack intellectual
capacity." After encouraging them to go back
to Africa, he said that one of
the best things slave-drivers did to American
blacks "was to drag your
ancestors over here in chains" because blacks
in America have greater
opportunity than those in Africa. Joe Coors is
a major contributor to the
Moral Majority, which has called for the imprisonment
of gay persons with
AIDS. The Coors family funds a right-wing sector
of Christian
fundamentalism, which seeks to replace democratic
pluralism with so-called "traditional
family values" that is, an authoritarian, gender-based
social order. They support
groups that say homosexuals are an abomination
and AIDS is God's judgment
on sinners. They have supported Reverend Sun
Myung Moon and Christian
Reconstructionists, both of whom have called
for the abolition of U.S.
democracy and the establishment of a theocratic
state ( . . . one nation
under God, or else).
Coors family members have sat on boards of groups
with people like a former
Indiana KKK leader, apartheid supporters and
ultraright Christian
Reconstructionists calling for the execution
of homosexuals, adulterers and
blasphemers.
Coors is fiercely anti-labor, having broken 19
unions in 20 years and
having blocked OSHA inspectors from investigating
workplace hazards which led to
the death of Coors employees. Coors supported
the National Right to Work
Committee, an anti-worker group out to destroy
unions.
Coors has supported terrorist activity in many
foreign countries, including
the Contras in Nicaragua, who have ambushed and
killed civilians, murdered
teachers and medical workers and destroyed rural
schools and medical
centers in order to help the CIA take over their
government.
Coors is one of the largest dumpers of hazardous
waste in Colorado. They�ve
been cited many times for water pollution and
have been caught covering up
known pollution including contamination of multiple
underground springs
where toxic chemical solvents contributed to
irregular heartbeat,
unconsciousness, pulmonary edema and death.
Joe Coors was one of a small group of people with
ready access to
Presidents Reagan and Bush. Joe and his brother
Bill both belonged to a since-exposed
secret all-male club called Bohemian Grove that
Reagan, Bush and other
ruling class figures such as the Secretary of
Defense and mass media executives
(but no reporters) would attend. Coors also funded
the Parental Music Resource
Center, a pro-censorship group with strong ties
to the religious right. The
PMRC was led by Al Gore�s wife.
Joe Coors started the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing
think tank seeking
to abolish civil rights laws, minimum wage laws,
environmental laws,
affirmative action, rights for the handicapped
and arms control. He chose a neo-Nazi
author of an Aryan supremacy book as co-editor
of their publication,
"Policy Review." They have sponsored forums for
pro-Nazi groups and have funded the
work of a convicted Nazi collaborator.
In the summer of 1996, the Heritage Foundation
did a huge mailing to voters
telling them to support Republican Senator Bob
Dole for President. In the
letter, Dole promised to abolish the federal
departments of education,
housing, transportation and energy. Right in
line with libertarian
rhetoric, they would have government off of corporate
America�s back and no social
safety net for the people.
When Coors commercials used to brag that they
are the "right beer now,"
they weren�t kidding. Coors also owns Zima, Killian's
Irish Red and Masters
Beer.
Sources:
(People are always asking me where this information
comes from... here's
where I got it.)
-The Coors Connection book brings together most
of the points. It was put
out by South End Press (800-533-8478). This book
has 287 footnotes.
-A lot of the info I took directly from 3 different
boycott factsheets from
AFL-CIO, Pledge of Resistance and Student Environmental
Action Coalition.
-Some of the research I did on the NEXIS-LEXIS
system.
-I found out about their ownership of Zima on
the net. There is a web site
for Zima that explains that Coors owns them.
-The reference to Bohemian Grove is from a book
from Fairness and Accuracy
In Reporting (FAIR), a media watch-dog group
that explains about the formerly
secret, all-male club that the executives of
Time-Warner attend, amongst
others. A reported from People magazine (owned
by Time-Warner) snuck in
once before getting kicked out. He tried to uncover
the story, but before it
went to print, it was suppressed. The reporter's
story is available from FAIR.
The book is called Adventures In Medialand.
-The reference to the Parent's Music Resource
Center (PMRC) and Tipper
Gore's involvement can be confirmed in the speeches
of former Dead Kennedy's
leader and political activist, Jello Biafra on
his spoken word album, No More
Cocoons. His group was bankrupted by the PMRC
and he is the founder of the
No More Censorship Fund.
-The reference to Dole's campaign is from a mailing
my father got (I don't
know why... he's not registered as Republican)
that was done on Heritage
Foundation letterhead supporting Dole for president.
-Explanations of what some of the various foundations
that Coors funds can
be found, besides in the Coors Connection book,
in the Greenpeace Guide to
Anti-Environmental Groups which I can make available.
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Note: The Penn State University's student newspaper,
the Collegian, caused
the writer of this column a lot of grief before
finally agreeing to print this.
They were afraid of being sued, so they felt
they needed to be able to
document and substantiate each and every point
in this article. It is
notable that they don't traditionally document
their sources or hold their
columnists to such a high level of accountability.
When printing flat-out lies about
such people as U.S. political prisoner, Mumia
Abu-Jamal, they don't seem to
worry about being sued. Columnist Editor Mark
Correa admitted that criticizing
those with the power and willingness to sue the
paper makes a difference in the
level of concern about factuality in the Collegian.
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