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What's wrong with Coca-Cola?

Coca-Cola Company sponsors Bush and does not care about human rights or the environment. In Columbia have union workers who bottle Coca Cola products been kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

Activities:
Coca-Cola Company is known for it's drink Coca-Cola. Sprite, Fanta and other softdrinks are also owned by Coca-Cola.
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Bush donor:
Coca-Cola is one of the sponsors of Bush. From 2000 till now, Coca-Cola have given US$1,060,000 to the Republican Party.

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes:

Coca Cola stand accused of complicity in the assassination of 8 Sinaltrainal trade union leaders in Colombia since 1990. Many other leaders have been imprisoned, tortured, forcibly displaced and exiled.

Of course, Coca Cola deny any responsibility for the murders, pointing out that 100s of union leaders are killed every year in Colombia.

However, many of Sinaltrainal's victims were killed inside Coca Cola plants while negotiating collective agreements. Coca Cola management were reported in the national press as meeting and contracting members of the AUC death squads to "sort out their labour problems".

More info:
Colombia Solidarity Campaign: Boycott Coca-Cola campaign
Cokewatch: Washington-based campaign for justice at Coca-Cola
Killer Coke: Campaign to stop violence against union leaders at bottling plants in Colombia
Silnatrainal (Español): Colombian union trade campaigning against Coca-Cola

Environmental damage in India:

Coca-Cola has illegally occupied a portion of the common property resources of the village Mehdiganj (India) and was found guilty of evading payment of land revenue by a local court.

Protesters were met at Coca-Cola's factory gates by about 200 police personnel, sent to "protect" the plant along with 50 gun-toting private security guards. This was not all for show-- the demonstrators were beaten up.

In yet another community, this time in Kudus village in Thane district, villagers are forced to travel long distances in search of water which has dried up in their area as a result of Coca-Cola's operations.

More info:
India Resource Center: Campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable in India
Holy water from the West, by Ranjith K.R., 96 p., 2004

Last update: June 2005

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