In addition to its numerous unethical behavior around the world, including depletion of water sources in India, the provision of toxic soil to India's farmers and toxic beverages to their people, buying sugar from child sweatshop sugar cane farms, and its implication in multiple assassinations, torture, and false imprisonment of labor unionizers in its Colombia bottling plants, Coca Cola has added another black mark to the list.
Coke is now threatening an artist with a lawsuit in order to suppress his free speech over an all too truthful picture he painted recently (see image at right). See the full story here.
Also, the leader of the union that has been fighting for rights in Coca Cola's subcontracted bottling sweatshops in Colombia has recently been assassinated. I heard a member of this union speak about the pain and suffering that these workers are going through on a daily basis, and how all of their rights, freedom, and lives are at put at risk just by asking for decent working conditions. The Colombian government and Coca Cola are the main beneficiaries of the crimes and murders of these organizers. Time will bring the truth.
For a brief look at Coke, check out the 2-page Coke Fact Sheet here.
You can take action quickly and easily by sending a free fax to Coca Cola here.
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