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We are seeking your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings, and torture of union leaders and organizers involved in daily life-and-death struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia, South America.

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Killercoke

• Complicity in Murder and Torture of Union
Workers in Colombia
• Overexploitation and Pollution of Water
Sources in India, Mexico, Ghana and elsewhere
• Benefi ting From Child Labor in Sugar Cane
Fields in El Salvador
• Aggressive Marketing to Children of
Nutritionally Worthless and Damaging Products
• History of Racial Discrimination
• Opposition to Environmentally-Sound
Bottle Deposit Bills
• Anti-worker Policies
• Fraudulent Business Practices

Is it Coke or Pepsi that also produces fake spring water - and in Britain, it came from the Thames and was not even properly purified. Was that Dasani? (An affiliate of one of the two big cola producers).

Saturday March 20, 2004
The Guardian

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The entire UK supply of Dasani was pulled off the shelves because it has been contaminated with bromate, a cancer-causing chemical.

So now the full scale of Coke's PR disaster is clear. It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it "pure" and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for "taste profile"; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide - which is not a problem - into bromate - which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre).

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Yes, more dregulation of the economy, please!. Next, farmers will pay foxes to watch chicken coops.

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THE Cola kings, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, are re-casting themselves into water lords as they push their bottled water, juices and sport drinks. In early 2000, Aquafina had become the best selling, single serving bottled water product in North America and Coca-Cola's Dasani is ranked second to the grand water thief, Nestlé. A major piece of their market share is concentrated in schools where both benefit from exclusive beverage or vending contracts. Coca-Cola and Pepsi want it all; on the one hand they continue to sell dehydrating soft drinks and on the other they push their bottled water lines as hydrating alternatives.

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Is it Coke or Pepsi that also produces fake spring water - and in Britain, it came from the Thames and was not even properly purified. Was that Dasani? (An affiliate of one of the two big cola producers).

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Made me look. Jeez. I sometimes think they'd bottle babies blood if people would buy it, damned parasites that they are.

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Yes, it was Coke's Dasani in England. But it gets better. Canadian Dasani is the same thing. It is Brampton tap water. Oh but it's totally worth the $1.75/500ml.

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I've been trying to find the story about the farmlands they've destroyed in India by tapping the groundwater for their bottling plant.

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Accusing the company of creating severe water shortages and polluting the water and land around the bottling plant, the community is demanding the closure of the bottling plant prior to the summer months, when the plant is expected to reach peak production capacity.

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/129798/1/

The factory generates approximately 0.15 tonnes10 of semi-liquid and dry sediment slurry wastes through the wastewater and waste treatment process, including the washing of sugar cane. HCBL initially stated that these wastes were a good fertiliser, and the sludge-like material was given to local farmers. After a short period, reports appeared that the sludge had damaged crops, and led to the development of lumps, welts and sores on people’s skin.
“The Coca-Cola Company has apologised for the use of the word ‘fertilizer’. It is likely that the local Indian spokesperson (whose first language is not English) was unaware of the importance of getting this term exactly right. The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that this type of material is suitable as a soil ‘conditioner’ and therefore the use of the word ‘fertiliser’ was wrong.”

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This is where someone asks: What is Evian spelled backwards?

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The Passionate Eye: Who Shot My Brother?

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Twenty-thousand Colombians die a violent death every year. An average of two people die every hour. This shocking fact hit home for Montreal-based filmmaker Germán Gutiérrez when he received a phone call from his homeland informing him that there had just been an assassination attempt on his older brother Oscar.

Gripped by both fear and anger, Gutiérrez sets out to find the hired gunmen who made the assassination attempt. His search for answers becomes his film Who Shot My Brother?, a portrait of Oscar Gutiérrez, a man who has continually fought against Colombia's rampant corruption. The film exposes the lawless society the country has become, while also offering glimpses of its remarkable vitality and endurance.

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I knew this was an evil company, but didn't know how evil:

"The company admits that without water it would have no business at all. Coca-Cola’s operations rely on access to vast supplies of water; it takes almost three litres of water to make one litre of Coca-Cola. In order to satisfy this need, Coca-Cola is increasingly taking over control of aquifers in communities around the world. These vast subterranean chambers hold water resources collected over many hundreds of years. As such they represent the heritage of entire communities."