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Everyone knows soda is bad for your teeth, but are some sodas bad for your conscience as well? Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which raises awareness of workers’ rights and labor issues on campus with its “Right to Organize” project, has turned its attention to the Coca-Cola Corporation and its “horrendous violations...of fundamental human rights,” says SLAM member Adaner Usmani ’08. SLAM wants Harvard to wash its hands of alleged dirty dealings, and has demanded that the university...
...many Harvard students, Coca-Cola and Diet Coke have addictive powers rivaling those of that other “coke.” But how many Coke junkies can really tell the difference between the Classic and other cola varieties? SLAM suggests replacing Coke with a smaller brand, but a blind taste-test suggests the switch may not be as smooth and refreshing as organizers hope...
...after the company mistreated him when he had health problems. Allied administrators “do not have respect for the people who really come in to work here,” Solano said. Solano spoke at a teach-in held March 8 by the Students Labor Action Movement (SLAM), a group that is supporting the guards’ unionization efforts. At the event, Solano said: “[Allied says], ‘we’re not going to fire you for starting a union, but we’re going to make your lives a living hell...
...ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services, a firm that Harvard employs. The campaign focuses on securing workers their legal right to unionize...
...power structures in their freshman year, accusing their classmates of embracing collar-popping elitisms. But then they have a change of heart, and they sell their souls in their sophomore year to cross the thresholds into the smoking rooms of the ever-enticing final clubs, never to attend a SLAM meeting again...