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...members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) joined hundreds of others from throughout the United States to protest Coke in New York City as part of the Global Day of Protest Against Coke. Similar protests throughout the world including the United States, South Africa, Thailand, Morocco and France. HAC also joined with the PSLM and HarvardWatch for a show of solidarity in front of Mass. Hall to urge University President Lawrence H. Summers to pressure Coke about its policies...
...HAC is correct that Coke should change its policies. For a company like Coca-Cola to refuse to provide health coverage to its subsidiaries’ workers is unacceptable—the cost to the company would be bearable, while the lack of coverage costs many workers their lives. Coke already provides HIV treatment to its direct employees here and in Africa, but workers for subsidiaries—mostly bottling factories—do not have access to confidential HIV testing or treatment. Coca-Cola should change its policies to meet these demands, pushing employment standards in Africa up towards...
...administration’s response to HAC to date has been woefully insufficient. The central administration should always be accessible to students—particularly to well-informed students with strong concerns, in this case about the University’s contracting and investing policies—and yet the President’s Office has so far refused to meet with students to discuss the matter. Instead, HAC has been directed to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...
Student protest has historically played an important role in holding the University accountable for its investment policies—a role it continues to play through groups like HAC. Such protest is important in putting issues on the public agenda...
Even without any formal and meaningful voice in University decisions—a voice students urgently need—students have at times managed to succeed in influencing Harvard’s policy. We hope HAC is likewise successful, and that Harvard vigorously pressures Coca-Cola to provide all its workers in Africa with health coverage for AIDS treatment...