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Furthermore, so long as we continue to be beholden to multinationals to obtain even basic necessities, we continue to reinforce an economic structure that systematically produces massive inequality and exploitation. While Nike or Coca-Cola may serve as figureheads, society’s ills are not the result of the actions of “a few bad [corporate] apples,” but rather the product of a generally problematic system. Thus, insofar as ethical consumerism’s effects are limited to these figureheads, as a general tactic it is clearly insufficient...
...policy that encourages the University to engage in boycotts...will have grave disadvantages for the institution.” Yet several events in the past year, including Harvard’s selling its shares of PetroChina, Michigan’s termination of its contract with Coca-Cola, and Stanford’s, Yale’s, and Amherst’s divestment from all companies doing business in Sudan, indicate that this debate is anything but a closed case. And divestment remains in the news—Harvard still holds shares in Sinopec, another company with links to the Khartum...
Only one of three Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) three contracts with the Coca-Cola Company will expire soon enough for Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to target this semester. Of the three, Harvard’s contract with Coke’s subsidiary juice company Odwalla expires in July 2006, HUDS communications coordinator Jami Snyder told The Crimson yesterday. The other two, for bottled beverages and for dining hall fountain soda, expire respectively in December of 2006 and 2009, Snyder wrote in an e-mail. Coke has been mired in controversy due to allegations...
Harvard has an exclusive contract with the Coca-Cola Company, which requires that only Coca-Cola drinks be served in dining halls and throughout campus...
...Coca-Cola Company has become mired in controversy lately over its alleged attempts to use violence to quash Colombian workers’ efforts to unionize...