Last Orders for Coca Cola / Unthinkable/ Undrinkable
'Coca Cola...Can't Beat The Feeling'* Oh really? At the National Union of Students (NUS) Annual Conference in Blackpool, students and educators from all over the UK overwhelmingly took the first steps to boycott Coca-Cola products from campuses'; responding to trade union and human rights organisations across the world.
The Coca-Cola Company stands accused of making profits on the back of assassinations, imprisonment, displacement, kidnapping, death threats and dismissals of trade unionists in Colombia. In a report by human rights activist and New York City Councillor Hiram Monserrate, 179 major human rights violations against Coca-Cola in Colombia were outlined. In India, communities living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages and crop yields have started to decline as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water.
This boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest. Boycotts have been used successfully to exert political pressure all over the world and throughout history from their use by African Americans in the [Montgomery Bus Boycott] during the US civil rights movement; the Indian boycott of British goods organized by Mohandas Gandhi; the movement that advocated "disinvestment" in South Africa during the 1980s in opposition to that country's apartheid regime and famously today, the boycott against Isreal Goods to stop the occupation of Palestine and the siege of Gaza.
*Coca Cola UK slogan
