Why is a senior regulator at the SEC spending his time telling an anti-Coke activist what to put on his website?

That’s a tweet from Occupy Wall St to a story at Corporate Crime Reporter ..

It’s a remarkable letter — dated April 1, 2013. From Nicholas Panos, an attorney with the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To Ray Rogers, a veteran corporate campaigner and director of Corporate Campaign and the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke. In the letter, Panos calls on Rogers to delete portions of the Killer Coke web site that are critical of Coca Cola. Rogers, who runs his campaigns on a shoestring out of his offices in Brooklyn, New York, started the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke in 2003 to hold Coke’s “bottlers and subsidiaries accountable and to end the gruesome cycle of violence and collaboration with paramilitary thugs, particularly in Colombia. [] These atrocities include the systematic intimidation, kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders and members of their families in efforts to crush their unions,” Rogers says. “In countries like Colombia and Guatemala, a strong union can mean the difference between life and death for people who dare to challenge corporate and political abuses.”

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