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...years ago, Sinaltrainal filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Coke and two of its bottlers, Miami-based Panamerican Beverages and the American-owned Bebidas y Alimentos of Colombia for the murder of Gil and eight other Sinaltrainal members since the early ’90s. Last year that court found that the suit could continue against the bottling plants—but not Coke, because it does not own the plants. The decision is under appeal...
...although one wonders why random paramilitary groups would go around the country murdering union leaders against the wishes of the companies they are seeking contracts from. Union leaders such as Adolfo Munera, who just a week after winning a case in Colombia’s highest court forcing a Coke bottler to re-hire him after he was cleared of bogus criminal charges used to fire him in 1997, have been murdered. Coke has made no signs of breaking their close ties with its Colombian bottling plants...
With help from the 80,000 activists in Mumbai this week, the combined boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein...
...impact of campus boycotts would certainly be felt by Coke, both in the long and short term. “The [college student] age group is one of the most important markets to beverage companies, because whatever habits you form now aren’t likely to change in the future,” Harvard University Dining Services spokesperson Alexandra McNitt said. At UC Berkeley alone Coke pays $1 million per year for exclusive vending rights on campus. McNitt said she couldn’t reveal any specifics about the contract Harvard has with Coke for dining halls...
...greed and human rights violations while still wearing the clothes, buying the soft drinks and driving the cars that fuel the system they are protesting. International boycotts, the only real weapon against transnational corporations worth billions of dollars, may be the next step in keeping tabs on corporate abuses. Coke may not be to our generation what California table grapes were to our parents’, but at least it’s a start...