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Coke in green clothing | rabble.ca

I remember seeing an interview with Vandana Shiva – an Indian physicist/feminist/environmental activist – talking about the problems of massive Multinational Coca-Cola drying up a river in India for their bottling plant, depriving the area’s population of the water supply vital to their lives. According to the India Resource Centre, as quoted in this article, groundwater levels have dropped up to six meters, leaving wells and small bodies of water dry.

Thanks, Coke. I’ve railed at you before for your ills… and now you’re trying to pass yourself off as “green” at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics? You and everyone else.

Speaking of which, I met COPE City Councillor Ellen Woodsworth yesterday (I voted for her!) and she was wearing one of these fantastic I Am A Free Speech Zone t-shirts. She invited me to come by City Hall and have tea with her when I decide to buy a t-shirt, which I will.

For more information on the zoning of our constitutional right to free speech during the 2010 Olympics, check out this article in the Sun, or better yet, Mayor Gregor Robertson’s concern over the “Orwellian nature of that label”. I voted for him, too. Vancouver is a free speech zone. Canada is supposedly a free speech zone.

Coke in green clothing | rabble.ca.

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3 Responses to “Coke in green clothing | rabble.ca”

  1. kt Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    my mom lives in honduras (3.5 years now) and COKE/Pepsi are visible, in your face, plastered brands there. it’s ironic to see a giant COKE/Pepsi sign on the wall of a dilapidated shack. the perfect image, politically.

  2. malloreigh Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    yeah, pretty apt. i’d like a photograph of that (and i suspect you probably have one).

    is it sao paulo that outlawed all advertising? i think that’s amazing. pretty extreme, but almost vital for social justice.

  3. kt Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    i have too many. yep, sao paulo, brazil. if more nations said no to capitalistic globalization, they’d have a better chance at preserving their own culture.

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