Millions of people who drink Coca Cola in the world.
This soft drink, invented just over a hundred years ago in the U.S., became in time the best known, most publicized and most bought all over the planet.
In any city you go, from Europe to Asia, Africa, Oceania, you will find the famous white logo on a red field.
But if it's true that everyone knows, probably not everyone knows that behind its production, there are grave injustices, and that the leaders of the Coca Cola company (multinational bill every year 22miliardi dollars), must respond to criminal acts such as "violation of human rights." What
combines Coca Cola in the world?
Come to order.
COLOMBIA.
Latin American country bordered on the north by the state of Panama, Venezuela to the east, Ecuador and Peru to the west, Brazil to the south.
Here, for over forty years fighting a civil war between the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), and the army.
It is made of a guerrilla attacks, ambushes, on both sides. In this climate of confusion and violence that people are fighting in a peaceful manner human rights and carry out peaceful social struggles (such as trade unionists) are caught in the fray: do you think are over three thousand trade unionists killed in Colombia since 1991, by paramilitary groups acting with impunity, that is, with the coverage of government.
The Colombian government in fact, under the pretext of war against the rebels of the FARC (which are defined as terrorists), the country has established a climate of repression that involves those who have nothing to do with the guerrillas, But leading and forward requests for greater justice, MORE SAFETY AT WORK, MORE SALARY.
(you know that workers in Colombia, whether laborers or workers, are badly paid and exploited, with no trade union rights).
The massacre of trade unionists in Colombia and then, which is justified by the government as
the effect of the "war on terror" is nothing but a massive crackdown on those who seek to gain more rights.
And Coca cola, what does all this mean?
got to do and how! The union of the Colombian food industry (SINALTRAINAL) denounces the killing of year by Coca-Cola workers by paramilitary gangs. These workers are killed, are all trade unionists seeking better salaries and better conditions working to their leaders, industries and bottling of "magic" carbonated drink.
E 'obvious who has been a ferocious repression.
The dead have so far killed eight, in addition to the long list of threats and intimidation that have been made to hundreds of other workers, like, I'll kill you if you join the union, or torture, kidnapping of family members, fire house, etc. .
short, the Coca Cola has been accused in Colombia to take advantage of the climate of war and repression that already exists for some time to kill with impunity the people "uncomfortable" working in its industries and to terrorize anyone who "dares" join a union.
SINALTRAINAL, the union has managed to bring the Coca Cola company in court,
Federal court in Miami, where the court stated that there is enough evidence to continue the process.
has also launched an international boycott campaign by asking each person in each country not to buy Coca Cola products.
The boycott campaign is expanding with each passing year, and was even taken by some institutions that have rejected the sponsor of the Coca Cola in some public events like concerts and sporting events. Another important event is the decision by some local authorities as
City Hall XI in Rome, the town of Fiano Romano, Empoli and others, to exclude the products of Coca Cola from the vending machines of its public facilities.
Even in the U.S., home of Coca Cola, the largest private institution (the New York University), will retire from the beverage vending machines and cafeterias, and soon other children poles follow the same path.
What is the boycott?
And 'the only form of protest that consumers can continue against the big brands.
And if this protest is massive and is accompanied by a political claim (like, if not improved the conditions of I will not buy workers), these large companies may be forced to rethink their positions. It 'just that a corporation suffers a loss of 5% of the total revenue, they can go in difficulty.
INDIA.
What is the boycott?
And 'the only form of protest that consumers can continue against the big brands.
And if this protest is massive and is accompanied by a political claim (like, if not improved the conditions of I will not buy workers), these large companies may be forced to rethink their positions. It 'just that a corporation suffers a loss of 5% of the total revenue, they can go in difficulty.
INDIA.
Big South Asian country, one of the world's population, 
with over one billion inhabitants. Here
Coca Cola is accused of having caused, with its bottling plants, the lowering of ground water in certain areas. It should be said about that to make a liter of coca cola, it takes less than 9 liters of water. The amount of water taken is enormous.
In Kerala, a region of India, local people found themselves with dry wells and the inability to quench their thirst and irrigate the fields because the slopes were virtually dried up Cola's bottling industries.
.
Faced with protests that local communities have carried out, the boycott of its products, and before the ruling of an Indian court (which reiterated that the water is good for everyone and can not be privately owned ) to the multinational-
was forced to close some plants and has seen its revenue decline 18% in India.
In early August 2006
addition, four Indian states have banned the sale of Coca Cola because some tests conducted on soft drinks have found traces of herbicides, toxic. These pesticides were probably contained in the groundwater that the U.S. company has "sucked" from the territory.
OTHER DATA ON COCA COLA.
In 2000 he was forced to pay 2200 workers African Americans for racial discrimination in hiring and production.
The use of aluminum for the production of cans of Coca Cola has a huge impact on the environment, both in places of extraction, as a result, when the can becomes "waste".
Allegations of intimidation of union workers also came from Coca-Cola workers in Turkey, Guatemala, Pakistan, Russia.
Article Source:
www.nococacola.info
www.sinaltrainal.org
www.indiaresource.org
[A small note: corporations are all those companies that control at least one subsidiary abroad. There are small (like the Italian companies open branches in Romania, where labor costs less) and enormous, like Coca Cola or McDonald's. These have a turnover in well above the U.S. dollar GDP of some poor countries of the globe. These huge companies can get to be the micro-states within the poor countries where they exploit the lack of human rights and environmental protection for profit. Often also take the natural resources of these countries and take away, in their rich countries of origin, leaving the inhabitants of those places only the crumbs. It is important to report when a multinational company, as well as a state, does injustice against the people. ]
Coca Cola is accused of having caused, with its bottling plants, the lowering of ground water in certain areas. It should be said about that to make a liter of coca cola, it takes less than 9 liters of water. The amount of water taken is enormous.
In Kerala, a region of India, local people found themselves with dry wells and the inability to quench their thirst and irrigate the fields because the slopes were virtually dried up Cola's bottling industries.
.
Faced with protests that local communities have carried out, the boycott of its products, and before the ruling of an Indian court (which reiterated that the water is good for everyone and can not be privately owned ) to the multinational-
was forced to close some plants and has seen its revenue decline 18% in India.
In early August 2006
addition, four Indian states have banned the sale of Coca Cola because some tests conducted on soft drinks have found traces of herbicides, toxic. These pesticides were probably contained in the groundwater that the U.S. company has "sucked" from the territory.
OTHER DATA ON COCA COLA.
In 2000 he was forced to pay 2200 workers African Americans for racial discrimination in hiring and production.
The use of aluminum for the production of cans of Coca Cola has a huge impact on the environment, both in places of extraction, as a result, when the can becomes "waste".
Allegations of intimidation of union workers also came from Coca-Cola workers in Turkey, Guatemala, Pakistan, Russia.
Article Source:
www.nococacola.info
www.sinaltrainal.org
www.indiaresource.org
[A small note: corporations are all those companies that control at least one subsidiary abroad. There are small (like the Italian companies open branches in Romania, where labor costs less) and enormous, like Coca Cola or McDonald's. These have a turnover in well above the U.S. dollar GDP of some poor countries of the globe. These huge companies can get to be the micro-states within the poor countries where they exploit the lack of human rights and environmental protection for profit. Often also take the natural resources of these countries and take away, in their rich countries of origin, leaving the inhabitants of those places only the crumbs. It is important to report when a multinational company, as well as a state, does injustice against the people. ]
-Lorenzo Pasqualini-
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