Jones of the Nile

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Me against the cola

David fought Goliath. Britney Spears went up against the music. Phil Collins was against all odds. Me?

Well, I'm obviously for cheesy puns based on crappy pop music. But I'm against Coca-Cola, which is why I was tickled pink to see that yet another college campus has banned the soft drink giant from their campus, because of alleged human rights abuses by the corporation. Check it out - this is from Bloomberg News, and posted on Truthout - the University of Michigan (go Wolverines!) will remove Coca-Cola Co. products from campus, becoming the 10th school to enact a ban over an investigation of working conditions at bottling plants in Colombia.

To quote: "Student activists are pressuring universities to stop selling Coca-Cola products because they claim the company has not done enough to stop violence against union workers in Colombia and won't agree to the terms of an investigation. The International Labor Rights Fund has said Coca-Cola and two Colombia bottlers are "complicit in" anti-union violence toward employees."

Viva la Pepsi!

Well, OK, I'm sure they're just as bad. How 'bout viva la universidad de Michigan!

1 Comments:

  • Dammit. You know I just love me some Diet Coke, too.

    Also, props on working in the Phil Collins reference - you've always been so good at that.

    By Blogger Mags, at 3:59 AM  

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