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Bottling Livelihoods

Dropping ground water levels and gross soil pollution in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, prompt a fresh crop of protest actions against Coca-Cola. For its part the corporation attempts to resolve the conflict by ‘educating’ its critics, and issuing tenuous claims against evidence of environmental degradation. In this article Aman Sethi uses investigative evidence procured by the Indian national magazine Frontline, to illustrate the nuances of the clash between Coca-Cola and the people most harmed by its presence.


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Adivasis Vs. Coca-Cola

This article marks significant turning points in the 3 year struggle against Coca- Cola’s environmental record. Listing the events, the C. R. Bijoy then goes on to ask what solutions can be made available given that the state appears to have divested itself of all autonomy in the face of multi-national capital.


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Arrogance and Impunity - Coca-Cola in India

In this terse call to action, Amit Srivastava documents the abuses of both Coke and Pepsi: abuses that stretch from callous over-pollution of the environment, unconcern about the health of its consumers, and disregard for growing public opinion. Providing quick facts useful for any activists’ gathering or consciousness-raising movement, Ghadar present Srivastava’s piece in the hope that its energy and factual information can assist the numerous, anti-Coke movements mushrooming around the world. Inquilab!

 

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Dump Coca-Cola

Despite Coca-Cola's devastating record on human rights and the environment, it is business as usual for universities lured by contract funding. Shivali Tukdeo points towards the unhealthy nexus between Coke and academic institutions, under the shadow of corporate funding, which inspite of worldwide student protests continue to disregard the human condition that Coke directly and adversely effects.


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Colombia Continues Assault of Trade Unionist with U.S. Assistance

Exemplifying the global ambit of US capital, Dan Kovalik, points to the reach of US assistance of the client state in Colombia in brutally suppressing the labour movement in that country. This is highlighted by the fact of US military assistance to Colombia in lieu of control over Colombia's valuable natural resources.


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Ladenge, Jeetenge! (Indefinite protest against Coca-Cola)

Civil society and people's movements raise a strong voice against Coke's pernicious treatment of human and environmental resources. Nandlal Master's article is an exhaustive manifest of grassroots struggle against the heavy-handed corporate-state uncivil union in India.


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