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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

mmm caffine and blood 

looks like I was going pretty crazy last night. oh well got it done... now think of somthing intresting to talk about! I've got nothing in my life, so why don't we start with a corporation spotlight.
Coca-Cola, as most people know, this is my favortie soft drink, very delicious and helps when studying late nights as the caffine and sugar give a buzz that I believe to be better then coffee. But lets look at this corporation through alternative news sources:
Coke in India
-Causing Severe Water Shortages for Communities Across India
-Polluting Groundwater and Soil Around its Bottling Facilities
-Distributing its Toxic Waste as "Fertilizer" to Farmers
-Selling Drinks with Extremely High Levels of Pesticides
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Coke in Columbia
"To date, there have been a total of 179 major human rights violations of Coca-Cola's workers, including nine murders. Family members of union activists have been abducted and tortured. Union members have been fired for attending union meetings. The company has pressured workers to resign their union membership and contractual rights, and fired workers who refused to do so."

"Most troubling to the delegation were the persistent allegations that paramilitary violence against workers was done with the knowledge of and likely under the direction of company managers. The physical access that paramilitaries have had to Coca-Cola bottling plants is impossible without company knowledge and/or tacit approval...."
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So On

Doesn't go down so smooth now, does it? (or maybe it still does, there are a lot of apathetic people who read this)

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