I'd like to buy the world a Coke...

from The Nation

Chief among the accusations, is [Coca Cola's] alleged complicity in the murder of union members by paramilitaries at bottling plants in Colombia.

So far, six colleges and universities in the United States--including Carleton, Oberlin and Bard--have responded to a call by the Colombian beverages union for a boycott, either by canceling contracts or banning vending machines. Campaigns are active at about ninety more, making this the largest anticorporate campaign since the one against Nike.

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Romero says that in addition to boycotts, students will soon be conducting sit-ins similar to those that helped publicize sweatshop abuses by Nike and other companies in the late 1990s.