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
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