Kent State's Bloody Associations

Kent State has entered into an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola, and has therefore aligned itself with a corporation that has a disturbing history.  Coca-Cola is currently being sued for its part in assassinations in Columbia and destruction of the environment in India,  What may have seemed at one time to be a good deal, has turned into an embarrassing blood contract with a criminal organization.  It's time to drop the contract!

The UMass Amherst Radical Students Union presents speakers on issues of the Stop Killer Coke campaign, April 28, 2004.
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(Ray Rogers, Director of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, Dan Kovalik, lawyer with the United Steelworkers of America, who's just returned from Colombia and is working with SINALTRAINAL (the Colombian bottling workers union) enabling them to file their lawsuit against Coca-Cola in the US, and Amit Srivastava, coordinator of India Resource Center, struggles against Coca-Cola in India, where they are responsible for water scarcity and pollution. Additional remarks by Ward Morehouse: national POCLAD co-founder and co-director.)

Colossal Victory! Coke Loses Rutgers! (May 20,2005)
In a Campaign victory that will cost Coca-Cola tens of millions in lost revenues and profits, Rutgers University of New Jersey, with more than 60,000 students, faculty, staff and administrators, has not renewed Coke’s exclusive beverage contract. The Rutgers University community was among the largest consumers of Coke products and the largest collegiate consumer of Coke’s Minute Maid products. Thus, hundreds of Coke machines and fountains from the three Rutgers New Jersey campuses are being removed along with Coca-Cola scoreboards, clocks and other Coke ads that polluted the university. The decision that effectively bans the sale and marketing of all Coke products from campus was made on May 10 after a long-fought, two-year Campaign led by student organizations and the faculty union