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Dartmouth students organizing Coca-Cola boycott
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about 1 year ago about The Coca-Cola Company
According to students in the class, the main contention points are Coke’s use of Colombian bottlers who employ death squads to keep workers from unionizing and Coke’s privatization of water in India, especially in poor, rural areas.
From a recent article in The Dartmouth (college newspaper).
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If Coca Cola, why not Pepsi, etc et al???
submitted by skyking about 1 year ago
How about them?? MNC abuse worldwide. Then the NAFTA act & no Border fence, a linkage?? How about other food companies?? Bottled water companies? baby food? Good 60 MIN storyline & good for GlennBeck.com Expose more. Send petitions to Coca Cola Hqs. Trash coca cola at home. sell stock in Co alone. Imagine massive Coca Cola stock sales. 200K shares sold. at share price today.
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