Boycotts
| Start Date: | Jan 26, 2007 |
Direct Goal Amount: 100 signatures
Thanks to you, we’re at 61 or 61% → 
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| End Date: | Sep 01, 2007 | ||
| Goal Amount: | 100 | ||
| Current Amount: | 61 | ||
| Sponsor: | AWARE | ||
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Dear supporter, COKE Boycott successful!
Coke is out!
After 2 years of intensive and sustained effort, the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign is no longer an exclusive Coca-Cola campus! In a recent decision, the State of Illinois has granted pouring rights to Pepsi, and the Urbana Champaign campus has agreed to join this contract. Further, the University has declared that certain retail shops on campus will be outside the contract where drinks may be purchased from multiple vendors. For more details, please read our press release available at http://caccuc.blogspot.com/
The effort to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its egregious practices around the world would not have succeeded without your continued and over-whelming support. Every phone call, letter, petition and personal boycotts have helped toward making this campus coke-free. Thank you!
While we welcome the non-renewal of the contract with Coca-Cola, we would like to continue to highlight and mobilize around corporatization of higher education on our campus. We invite you to join us for a debriefing dialog on August 29, 2007. Please look out for meeting updates on our website [http://caccuc.blogspot.com/].
Please share this information widely. If you and/or your group would be interested in participating in the afore-mentioned dialog, please rsvp by August 20th to cokeactiongroup@riseup.net .
In Solidarity,
Coalition Against Coke Contracts (CACC)
http://caccuc.blogspot.com/
The Coalition Against Coke Contracts, is a community organization.
AWARE is one of CACC's supporting groups.
Coca-Cola is "the biggest-selling soft drink in history". But there is a rather ugly side to the glitter of Coca-Cola, as people in Colombia, India, Turkey, Indonesia and Guatemala would vouch. Their stories show a pattern of human rights abuse, labor violations and environmental destruction. Perhaps it is time to take a closer look at the "real thing" behind Coca-Cola's profits.
Coca-Cola's human rights and labor abuse are most pronounced in Colombia where the paramilitary forces and company management have committed a total of 179 human rights violations against workers who live amidst constant threat and intimidation. Since 1989, eight Coca-Cola employees have been killed, some of them within the factory premises. Coca-Cola's union-busting tactics are not confined to Colombia alone, for workers in Coke bottling operations in Turkey and Indonesia are also routinely subjected to violence, intimidation and arbitrary termination. In India, Coca-Cola is guilty of extracting millions of gallons of groundwater, trashing out toxic waste into the fields, and selling drinks with dangerous levels of pesticide contents.
Despite worldwide protests against Coke and massive student campaigns on hundreds of campuses all over the US, the University of Illinois maintains business as usual. According to the exclusive contract between University of Illinois and Coca-Cola, only Coke products can be sold on campus.
Coalition Against Coke Contracts held a rally on the quad of the UIUC campus last fall to protest the University's contract with Coca-Cola. Coalition Against Coke Contracts is a broad coalition of campus and community groups in Champaign-Urbana that has mobilized to demand that the university end its financial relationship with Coca-Cola.
For information about this group, go to: http://caccuc.blogspot.com That's http://caccuc.blogspot.com
