No, not that kind of Coke. “Rutgers University is dropping Coca-Cola” for “its lucrative soft drink contract. … [S]tudents at more than 90 universities, colleges and high schools around the world,” reports the NewStandardNews, “are actively protesting against the soft-drink giant’s vendor contracts.”
They claim that Coke has taken water from poor communities while leaving toxic wastes behind, that it backed Colombian paramilitaries that murdered a labor leader in 1996, and supported attempts to thwart efforts by Guatemalan Coke employees to organize during the 1980s.
These young people. Princeton students are filibustering around the clock, Yalies are rallying for workers. What’s next?
Rutgers selected Pepsi, it says, because the contract is more lucrative. Wait ’til the students find out that Pepsi sponsors bullfighting.
