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Aside from post-finals 30 packs of Milwaukee’s Best, the most popular beverage on campus is undoubtedly the Coca-Cola that flows like wine during exam period. But if campaigners at this week’s World Social Forum in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, India have their way, more people might be looking elsewhere for their caffeine fix. Delegates at the forum, a left-leaning alternative to the World Economic Forum taking place at Davos, Switzerland, are looking to globalize a series of smaller boycotts against the soft-drink giant...
...success in protesting Coke, but they are hoping the Bombay forum will provide a chance to join forces with a union boycott of Coke led by Sinaltrainal, Colombia’s largest food and bottling union, the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union. The protesters allege collusion between Coca-Cola and a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which the U.S. State Department classifies as a terrorist organization, in the intimidation and assassination of union members in Coke bottling plants in Colombia...
...present day. Ted and Sasha watch the triumph of the cold war--a triumph for which they mortgaged much of their lives--being squandered by corporate cowboys and callow compromisers. "You think the war's over because a bunch of old Nazis in East Germany have traded Lenin for Coca-Cola?" Sasha demands of Ted in one of his bravura harangues. "Do you really believe that American capitalism will make the world a sweet safe place? It will pick it dry." The novel comes to a head in the present day with the two friends attempting a final, desperate gambit...
...drug lords and the opening to public scrutiny of its corrupt and cryptic bureaucracy. In a nation where Presidents have long ruled like Aztec Emperors, Fox eschews executive fiat and has so far avoided the ego-driven financial catastrophes that marked Mexico's last four presidencies. As a former Coca-Cola executive and state governor, Fox was thought to bring the sorely needed touch of an honest CEO. But while his probity is still unquestioned, "we all overhyped his managerial skills," says a former high-ranking government official. "He's a corporate cheerleader more than an administrator." He has proved...
With pizza brands buying out colleges, product placements have become ubiquitous. But for a while, they inspired few objections. Coca-Cola culture was tolerable so long as people retained a private domain without commercial breaks...