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...Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) led the protest outside Massachusetts Hall, part of its ongoing campaign to pressure Coca-Cola to provide health coverage for 100,000 people in Africa who work for wholly or partially owned subsidiaries of Coke. The University has an extensive relationship with Coca-Cola: It has sizable holdings in the company and contracts for campus dining halls and vending machines, not to mention the fact that a member of the Board of Overseers is also an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Coca-Cola. HAC has called on Harvard to use this influence, particularly...
...HAC members said they chose Harvard as a target for their cause both because it has large contracts with Coca-Cola and because it is heavily invested in the company...
...We’re asking [University] President [Lawrence H.] Summers to publicly condemn Coke’s practices in Africa,” said Amanda S. Alexander ’04, co-founder of the Student Global AIDS Campaign, of which the HAC is one chapter...
...HAC leaders said the organization had previously sent an e-mail to Summers’ secretary to arrange a meeting with the president. They said they were told to address their concerns to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which protest organizer Florence T. Twu ’05 said does not meet until next year...
...white folks—the management—they get the treatment,” HAC Treasurer Robert T. Elliott ’04 said...