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Drummond
8/1/07 Time Magazine Suing Multinationals Over Murder
7/20/07 The Birmingham News: Lawmakers Request Ex-Agents Testimon
7/19/07 The Birmingham News: In Court, Widows Tells of Odyssey
7/13/07 The Washington Post: U.S Firm on Trial in Colombia Slayings
7/12/07 The New York Times: Suit in U.S Over Murders in Colombia
7/12/07 Le Monde: Une Firme Americaine Accusee d'avoir fait assassiner trois Syndicalistes en Colombie
7/12/07 The Birmingham News: Union Leader Says Drummond Official Threatened Him
7/9/07 Bloomberg.com: Drummond Murder Trial Tests Law Used to Sue Chiquita
7/9/07 Wall Street Journal: Drummond Trial Is Set to Open
7/6/07 AP: Alabama coal company accused of bankrolling Colombia's killer right-wing militias
6/22/07 Miami Herald: Witnesses link U.S. company, Colombian paramilitaries
5/5/07 Counter Punch: Taking it to Drummond: Paramilitaries and Mining Companies in Colombia
5/3/07 Associated Press: Paramilitary leader charged in 2 mine killings in Colombia
4/2/07 USA Today: Foreign Workers Sue U.S. Companies
3/24/07 Semana (Colombia): Oscuridad en la Mina (Darkness in the Mines)
3/20/07 Washington Post: Colombian Unravels Government-Paramilitary Ties
3/20/07 ILRF Press Release: ILRF Welcomes Investigation of Drummond for Paramilitary Links
3/11/07 New York Times: Bush Heads to Colombia as Scandal Taints Alliance
3/7/07 Associated Press: Union Organizing Can Be Deadly in Colombia
4/14/04 Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO supports struggle of Drummond workers
10/6/03 Wall Street Journal: Colombian Killings Land U.S. Company In American Court
6/26/03 New York Times: Rights Groups Overseas Fight U.S. Concerns in U.S. Courts
4/15/03 Colombian Union May Proceed Against Drummond Company
Sindicato Colombiano Puede Avanzar en la Demanda Contra Drummond
3/22/02 New York Times: Alabama Coal Giant is Sued Over 3 Killings in Colombia
— Chris Saeger, "Strengthening Rule of Law Through Aid for Human Rights Litigation in National Courts: A Case Study of Oil Multinational Corporations Complicit in Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Nigeria (December 2007)
— Terry Collingsworth, "Using the Alien Tort Claims Act to Introduce the Rule of Law to the Global Economy (2005)
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