But the complaint filed against Coca Cola claims that the company does more than just benefit from paramilitary violence: it claims the company orchestrates it. Needless to say, companies in Colombia benefit from the reduced effectiveness of union organizing that results from the intimidation of workers by paramilitaries. The most recent killing of a union leader at one of the plants was 21st June when Oscar Dario Soto Polo was gunned down. The suit was filed on 20th July by the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union that represents workers at Coca Cola’s Colombian bottling plants the estate of a murdered union leader and five other unionists who worked for Coca Cola and were threatened, kidnapped or tortured by paramilitaries… If you can right now, please consider supporting our work with a donation so we're ready for the hard work ahead.A lawsuit filed in US District Court in Florida accuses the Coca Cola Company, its Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the multinational soft drink manufacturer’s Colombian bottling plants. It's a pivotal moment for our democracy, accountability, and so much more-but you already know that, you just read a Mother Jones article. You're busy, so we'll keep this short: We need to raise $325,000 over the next month to help fund the hard-hitting, fiercely independent reporting you get from us.
If you can right now, please consider supporting our work with a donation so we're ready for the hard work ahead.
Most evil: Coke (There’s a reason the parody video has more YouTube views than the actual ad.)īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Pepsi: “We firmly believe companies have a responsibility to provide consumers with more information and more choices so they can make better decisions,” PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote in a PR essay that appeared in one of the country’s most respected annual reports on obesity. Critics responded with a parody video that ends with the exhortation: “Don’t drink Coke.” Most evil: Pepsi (At least Coke used its Polar Bears to draw attention to global warming.)Ĭoke: Its ad (above) about fighting America’s obesity epidemic may have actually contributed to the problem by spinning Coca-Cola products as components of a healthy lifestyle. Pepsi: Pushes an alternative image of Santa as a party dude who secretly drinks Pepsi when he’s on summer vacation at the beach. Photoillustration by Matt Connolly.Ĭoca-Cola Coke: Coca-Cola ads that first appeared in 1931 in the Saturday Evening Post and other national magazines popularized the modern image of Santa Claus as a pudgy guy dressed in red. Ring: James Steidl/Shutterstock Coke: Elsie esq./Flickr Pepsi: MPD01605Flickr Gloves: OZaiachin/Shutterstock.
0 kommentar(er)
