By Arielle Milkman
Published: January 27, 2009
The University Senate brought together Coca-Cola connoisseurs, activists and community members to discuss the possible repeal of the ban.
The ban on Coca-Cola products calls for an independent investigation into the company’s human rights practices in Colombian bottling factories in the 1990s. It has been suspected that Coca-Cola may have been compliciin the murders of union leaders.
Camilo Romero, a member of the Colombian trade union SINALTRAINAL, spoke with WSN.
“Each of us [members of the union] have received less threats on our lives
since the NYU Coke ban has been in effect,” Romero said. --NewsHammer 1/27/2009
Alan Gillis Comment on this article, published on NYU's Washington Square News, Tue Feb 3 2009 13:18
http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/1.1312918-1.1312918
. . .It's all politics out there and it's good to see the NYU Senate taking an active role.
Other campuses are also still concerned about social injustice, like students have always been. A lot of revolutions have been formented on campus, social and political, though it's pretty quiet now. There's also a slide into an abyss of war and dirty capitalism. Excercise your legal rights or there's a chance the next generation will lose theirs. . . .
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COKE BAN LIFTED
By Sergio Hernandez
Published: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Updated: Friday, February 6, 2009
Move over, Pepsi! The University Senate voted 28-22 yesterday to lift NYU’s ban on Coca-Cola products, ending a three-year embargo on the soft drink. . . .
Last March, Senate Public Affairs Committee Chairman Arthur Tannenbaum — whose committee had been tasked with monitoring
Coke’s progress since the ban was enacted — introduced a motion to lift the ban after the Coca-Cola Company agreed to an assessment of its business practices by the International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations that handles labor issues. . . .
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MURDER WITNESS PUSHES COKE BAN
By Taylor Miller
Published: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Louis Adolfo Cordona witnessed the murder of a Colombian union leader, who was allegedly killed on behalf of the Coca-Cola Company. He spoke at the NYU School of Law last night in order to highlight the company’s
corrupt business practices.
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e_ban-1.1355130