ThePiedPiper wrote:
>
> http://www.corporations.org/coors/article.html
>
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>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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