Colas Exploit Americas
Communities and organizations around the Americas (including USA, Canada, Colombia) are opposing these practices of these companies. At shareholders meetings and at college campuses, executives are under pressure. Coke has begun to use its media muscle to fund ad campaigns in University newspapers to discourage campuses from opposing Coke.
These are stories about Cola Companies in the Americas and communities who are opposing the Cola companies for their policies globally.
University of Illinois is the third university this summer -- following Smith College in the U.S. and the Banaras Hindu University in India -- to have terminated its beverage contract with Coca-Cola.
There has been increasing support of protests against the Colas in USA. In Europe, Coca-Cola's regional subsidiary 8.66 million euros for discriminating against retailers
Photograph of protests outside Coke HQ in Atlanta demanding end of the company's unethical practices in Colmbia, and India.
With increasing obesity among children in the US, the American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation brokered a deal to end sales and distribution of almost all �Soft Drinks� in elementary and middle schools. When will this happen in India?
It seems like Coke was dealt a double whammy. A government committee in Maharashtra and the Green Party in the USA are recommending banning Coke and Pepsi products.
This is an update of events and activities of the anti-coca cola campaign in the USA following the verdict from Kerala High Court.
Martin Espada, who teaches poetry at the University of
Massachuesetts at Amherst and is the author of several books talks to CounterPunch about why he refused money from Coca Cola for his poetry reading at Kansas University.
An article in The Nation profiles a campaign that is growing rapidly in Universities across North America and even Europe demanding Coca Cola be held responsible for its human right violations.
Corporate Accountability International, along with numerous other local organizations cited Coke for its unethical practices in India
On the morning of 23rd November, 2004, at the city hall, Minneapolis, Corporate Accountability International (CAI) held a press conference highlighting the unethical behavior of the Atlanta based Coca Cola. It cited numerous instances where Coke has been draining out the water table in communities that are having trouble accessing clean drinking water.