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 Coca-Cola Corruption
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Description: Watch one man cripple the worlds most well known corporation! Neville Isdell, CEO of Coke will be recoiling for an eternity after the wrath onslaughted by Mark Thomas in undoubtably his most genus attack ever. Coupling comedy with critique, satire with sarcasm & delivered with vigorous finesse, his report on Cokes lack of corporate responsibility and malicious behavior will leave you outraged. If you enjoy Coke DONT WATCH THIS! Get the DVD from Undercurrents.
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Posted by Guest on Tuesday, 06.15.10 @ 16:58pm | #940

Please calm down everyone don’t jump to such hasty decisions before you do your home work.
Anyway if you are getting you news or world events updates from a struggling stand-up comedian you might want to reconsider your on IQ before you start thinking you can solve other people’s demises.

Posted by chance444 on Saturday, 08.22.09 @ 22:18pm | #732

I work for McDonald's , and i know i'm a corporate scum , but i have no choice , i gotta eat/live ....
BUT BUT
i'm never , and i mean never , as long as i live ( although i'm a heavy coke drinker - about 2 L a day ) buy a single coke - and i hope i can keep my promiss

Posted by Guest on Friday, 06.19.09 @ 13:28pm | #703

Just two words - Absolutely Brilliant

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Posted by brado on Sunday, 05.25.08 @ 18:59pm | #418

I would throughly recommend anyone to watch the following program on Channel 4 Dispatches: Mark Thomas on Coca Cola it was quite an eye opener and you will think again when you reach for another can of coke

Posted by Guest on Wednesday, 12.12.07 @ 13:34pm | #339

Coke Faces New Charges in India, Including ?Greenwashing'

By Aaron Glantz

June 7, 2007, OneWorld.net

http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/current

LOS ANGELES - The Coca-Cola company has been charged with
illegally seizing lands communally owned by small farmers and
indiscriminately dumping sludge and other industrial hazardous
waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as the
multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to
protect rivers on four continents.

The San Francisco-based India Resource Center, an
environmental health non-profit, further charged Coca-Cola
with releasing untreated wastewater into surrounding
agricultural fields and a canal that feeds into the Ganges
River in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The charges are based on the results of a fact-finding mission
led by the group to a Coca-Cola bottling plant in the region.

'Access to potable water is a fundamental human right,' said
Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center.

'The Coca-Cola company must acknowledge that it is part of the
problem of water unsustainability in India and elsewhere,' he
added.

This is not the first time environmental groups have
criticized Coke's operations in India.

In 2003, in response to a growing campaign against Coca-Cola,
the Central Pollution Control Board of India surveyed eight
Coca-Cola bottling plants in the country and tested the sludge
at all these facilities. The Board found all the sludge at all
the Coca-Cola bottling plants it surveyed contained high
levels of toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and chromium.
At the time, it ordered the Coca-Cola company to treat its
sludge as industrial hazardous waste.

Those toxic problems, coupled with allegations Coke has been
complicit in the murders of union organizers at bottling
plants in the South American nation of Colombia, have been
increasingly troublesome to the Atlanta-based company.

In the last six months, 25 universities from the United
States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including the
University of Michigan, the University of Guelph in Canada,
and the University of Manchester in England, have all taken
actions to remove Coca-Cola from their campuses.

On May 29, the president of Smith College in Massachusetts,
Carol T. Christ, barred Coke from participating in the
school's upcoming soft drink bidding process. Coca-Cola's
seven-year contract with Smith College expires on August 31.

'In light of Coca-Cola's business practices in Colombia and
India, Smith will preclude Coca-Cola from the list of approved
bidders when we enter the contract renewal process later this
summer,' Christ wrote in a letter.

Coke vehemently denies the charges.

'The allegations that led to this decision are based on
Internet rumor and myth, and have been proven false time and
again,' Coke spokesperson Diana Garza Ciarlante told New
Dehli-based Indo-Asian News Service.

'While our business relationship with Smith College is
important, the integrity and reputation of our company is more
important,' she said.

On Tuesday, the soft drink giant announced its own
environmental plan, pledging to spend $20 million to conserve
seven of the world's most critical river basins.

Right now, it takes 2.5 liters of water to make and bottle 1
liter of Coke, and 250 liters to grow the sugar cane in the
mix.

'We are focusing on water because this is where Coca-Cola can
have a real and positive impact,' Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO
E. Neville Isdell told a gathering of environmental advocates.

The pledge was announced at the annual meeting of the World
Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Beijing. Over the life of a multiyear
partnership with WWF, the company pledged to focus on
'measurably conserving' China's Yangtze, Southeast Asia's
Mekong, the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo of the southwest United
States and Mexico, the rivers and streams of the southeastern
United States, the water basins of the Mesoamerican Caribbean
Reef, the East Africa basin of Lake Malawi, and Europe's
Danube River.

'We call this ?greenwashing," said Srivastava of the India
Resource Center. 'An attempt by the Coca-Cola company to
manufacture a green image of itself that it clearly is not, as
their practice in India shows.'

Coke's announcement did not mention any measures to conserve
water basins in India, a decision that did not surprise
Srivastava.

'The Coca-Cola company and WWF did not dare to include India
in this initiative (because) the public in India is
increasingly becoming aware of the Coca-Cola company's
disastrous relationship with water, and would have to see it
for what it's worth - a drop in the bucket,' he told OneWorld.

The deal also rubs U.S. critics of Coke the wrong way.

'In itself it's a good thing, but we see it as largely a
tactic to divert attention from other areas,' Patti Lynn of
the watchdog group Corporate Accountability told OneWorld.

'Coke is just trying to get some public relations points.
They're using this as a diversionary tactic,' she added.

Lynn and other U.S.-based consumer advocates are angry because
of the foray that Coca-Cola has made into the bottled water
market.

From the 1970s to 2000, Corporate Accountability says, the
annual volume of bottled water purchased and sold in the
United States has increased by over 7,000 percent. Yet the
bottled water industry operates with little or no regulation.

'Tap water is better regulated, and often safer,' said Lynn,
adding that bottled water costs 3,000 percent more.

Lynn pointed to a 1999 study by the National Resources Defense
Council on bottled water sold in the United States, which
found traces of arsenic, chloroform, and other impurities;
chemicals that would be illegal if found in tap water.

Coca-Cola spent $1.7 billion on advertising last year. In
North America, Coca-Cola distributes three bottled water
brands: Dasani, Dannon, and Evian.

According to the Washington, DC-based Earth Policy Institute,
consumers spend about $100 billion on bottled water each year.
By comparison, experts estimate that just $15 billion per
year, above and beyond what is already spent, could bring
reliable and lasting access to safe drinking water to half a
billion people worldwide - fully half of those who lack it.

'The way that Coke, Pepsi, and Nestle have marketed bottled
water has had the effect of undermining people's confidence in
tap water and contributed to a broad societal shift,' Lynn
said. 'Instead of buying bottled water, we need to be
investing in our shared, public water systems.'

Posted by colourbleu on Friday, 06.8.07 @ 07:20am | #226

Inside Coke's Labor Struggles BusinessWeek travels to Colombia to speak with labor leaders, politicians, workers and others who can shed light on the controversy http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b396 8079.htm To shed more light on the conflicting claims in the Colombia Coca-Cola (KO ) controversy, BusinessWeek sent Mexico City-based Latin America Correspondent Geri Smith to Colombia for a week in late October. She interviewed more than a dozen people, including labor unionists, academics, diplomats, economists, current and former Coke workers, and the country's vice-president in an effort to get to the bottom of the dispute. She didn't expect to find a "smoking gun" -- many of the killings of Coke workers took place a decade or more ago, and Colombia's justice system is slow to investigate and prosecute crimes. But as these excerpts from her interviews indicate, Colombia's political violence makes it not only a dangerous place to be a union organizer but a complicated place to do business. The national headquarters for SINALTRAINAL, a union representing Colombian food-industry workers, is in an old two-story house in Bogot?. Its worn, creaking stairs reflect the ramshackle condition of the country's labor unions. Walls are plastered with photos of Che Guevara and international Coke boycott posters in several languages, including one showing the wrinkled feet of a cadaver with a morgue toe tag reading "Union Leader" and a headline saying "Killer Coke can't hide its crimes in Colombia." "ENCOURAGING IMPUNITY." Edgar Paez, the union's international relations director, says the union tried for years to get Coke to admit some responsibility for the killings of at least eight workers employed by its Colombian bottlers or to pay indemnization to their families. Only when the union filed a U.S. lawsuit in 2001 and began an international boycott in 2003, he says, did Coke pay more attention to the problem. "If, when the first of our colleagues was killed, Coca-Cola had issued a statement condemning the paramilitaries or the criminals and demanding that they stay out of worker-employer relations, we would definitely say that the company had distanced itself from what happened," says Paez. "But Coca-Cola doesn't say anything! We believe that if they don't condemn these killings, a multinational is encouraging impunity." A Coke spokesman told BusinessWeek that its bottlers had taken out advertisements in local newspapers protesting the killings. Although SINALTRAINAL is making waves with its boycott in the U.S. and Europe, in Colombia it's a mere shadow of its former self. Today, it represents just 2,300 workers nationwide -- 314 of them from Coke, with the rest from other food companies, including Nestle. That's down from 5,400 workers a decade ago, because many companies, like Coke, have restructured, replacing full-time employees with short-term contractors. POINTING FINGERS. One reason Coke's problems in Colombia seem so intractable is because the dialogue with SINALTRAINAL is nearly nonexistent. Union leaders are openly hostile: In an interview, Paez ticked off 27 demands including reparations to victims' families and promotion of fruit juices to replace consumption of carbonated beverages such as Coke. While Paez places the blame for the deaths squarely on Coke, he acknowledges that lax law enforcement and a weak justice system, along with government hostility toward unions and the country's four-decade-old civil war, created the perfect environment for the killings to occur. "If the Colombian government had not allowed this impunity from the beginning," he says, "all these crimes wouldn't have happened." "POLITICAL FIGHT." Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos knows something about the country's violence: The former editor of El Tiempo newspaper, Santos was kidnapped in 1990 by drug traffickers and held for eight months, along with 10 other journalists. Santos is in charge of improving the government's human-rights record, including investigating cases of violence against unionists. In an interview with BusinessWeek, Santos didn't hide his disdain for SINALTRAINAL's boycott. "This [SINALTRAINAL vs. Coke] is not a labor union fight, it's a political fight. You can't justify the death of a union leader. [But] they took a myth and built a campaign out of it. They found a model that works, and they've been very successful at [promoting] it. They've been able to build this [martyrdom] image." He says the government is making a good-faith effort to investigate killings of labor leaders. "We know there are problems, we're trying to solve them," he said. "It's not as easy to get away with killing a labor leader as it was five years ago. But we're [still] not satisfied at all with the results." On Oct. 24-29, an International Labor Organization mission visited Colombia to assess the current state of labor rights. While the ILO applauded the government's efforts to improve investigation of labor-related crimes, it noted that "impunity prevails." Fewer than 1% of cases are ever resolved. MAKING HEADLINES. Luis Alejandro Pedraza is the representative in Bogota of the Geneva-based International Union of Foodworkers (IUF). After violence forced SINALTRAINAL to abandon Coke's Carepa plant a decade ago, Pedraza helped organize a new union there. Some labor observers dismiss the IUF as pro-company, but many unionists in Colombia believe veteran unionist Pedraza is a straight shooter. Coke workers are represented by around a half-dozen unions nationwide. At least 30 union leaders are killed in Colombia each year, making it the most violent country for union organizers. SINALTRAINAL is not the hardest-hit group. Many more union leaders in the teaching, farming, and health professions have fallen prey to violence. Yet, SINALTRAINAL has been more successful drawing attention to its plight. "The union sees multinationals as key vehicles for airing their point of view to the world," says Pedraza. "They want to engage Coke in a permanent debate because it gives them notoriety and recognition." Pedraza says the IUF refused to join the boycott "because SINALTRAINAL did not present us with proof that Coke had ordered the killing of unionists." Of course, he acknowledges, "in this kind of thing there is never any written evidence" pointing to who may have ordered the killings. He believes, however, that Coke could do more to lay the conflict to rest. "We have always maintained that Coke has a political responsibility...to seek peaceful labor relations and that it should sign an international agreement guaranteeing labor rights. Coke hasn't said yes yet, but it has been open to dialogue," he says. A model for that would be an agreement that the IUF signed with Chiquita Brands in 2002 to guarantee Colombian banana workers' rights, he says. After Chiquita signed that agreement, labor conflicts diminished significantly. LABOR WEAKENING. Hector Fajardo, a former top leader of Colombia's main labor confederation, the CUT, now is an academic and adviser to a Spanish labor confederation. Colombia, he says, "has always had a profound anti-union culture." Massacres of striking banana and cement workers in 1928 and 1965 set the tone decades ago. Most killings take place during strikes or when a union has just presented a list of demands in the collective bargaining process. In the 1990s, labor laws were reformed to allow companies to replace full-time contract workers with part-time laborers or subcontractors, which further weakened the labor union movement. Today, only 4.8% of Colombia's 17 million workers belong to unions -- down from 9% in the 1960s. Even though he thinks SINALTRAINAL should have pursued constructive dialogue rather than a boycott, he believes Coke hasn't handled the issue well either. "International campaigns are the Achilles' heel of the multinationals," he says. "I don't think that Coca-Cola has been able to prove that it was not responsible." DANGEROUS CLIMATE. Carlos Rodriguez, CUT's current president, is one of eight CUT officials who has government protection because of death threats. Yet he isn't satisfied. He says the government has failed to carry out serious, thorough investigations and rarely prosecutes anyone for the killings. Unionists are caught in the middle of a country in extreme conflict. "If you're a union activist in an area where the paramilitaries are in charge, they say you're a guerrilla. If you're a union activist in an area controlled by the guerrillas, they'll say you're a paramilitary. And the army says you're one of the two, and goes after you," he says. Still, CUT does not back the Coke boycott. "We respect what our colleagues think, but we don't share their views," says Rodriguez. "In today's globalized world we can't pretend that a boycott against multinationals is the solution." He does, however, think labor unions must join together to ensure that multinationals follow worldwide codes of behavior. "A multinational should behave the same in a country where it invests as it does in its home country." LIVING IN FEAR. Luis Hernan Manco, 59, was president of the local SINALTRAINAL union in Carepa when union board member Isidro Segundo Gil was gunned down on the premises of the Coke bottling facility there in 1996. Manco was working just a few yards away when the killing occurred. "When I heard the gunshot, I turned and saw him fall," he recalls. "Two men standing over him shot Gil several more times, and then they very calmly got on their motorcycle and rode off." After paramilitaries warned him that he would be killed if he stayed in town, Manco fled to Bogota, where he has lived in hiding for nearly a decade, leaving behind his three children with his ex-wife. Working sporadically as a night watchman, he had to borrow bus fare to come to an interview at SINALTRAINAL's headquarters. Although Coke says its bottlers have compensated workers who were forced to flee their jobs, Manco says he never received any severance pay. The company, he says, paid for his bus ticket to Bogota but refused any other compensation, arguing that he -abandoned- his job, where he earned about $160 a month. -God willing, I am still hoping the company will pay what they owe me,- he says. He's still afraid to return to Carepa. -The people who killed Gil are still there.- Graphic Timeline http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b396 8076.htm

Posted by colourbleu on Sunday, 03.5.06 @ 16:24pm | #23

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