First new work of the year in support of the ongoing BDS boycott of Coca Cola products, and in recognition also of Coca-Cola's murderous repression of union organisers in South America.
In 2017, Coca Cola donated $14000 to the extremist Israeli far-right organisation Im Tirtzu, which aims to "promote Zionism" by attacking and delegitimising Israeli left-wing and human rights groups and individuals. Coke also operates facilities in Atarot, an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Coca-Cola has been accused of having union organisers murdered in several countries. In Guatemala City, while workers at a company bottling planet fought for their jobs, including occupying the plant for 13 months, three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five other workers killed. Four more were kidnapped and have disappeared. Torture and intimidation were also used against union members. Coke also had at least a dozen union organisers killed in Columbia.
In Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, Coca-Cola started stockpiling ingredients in order to circumvent sanctions. When there was a public backlash to the news they announced they would be halting operations in Russia, but all they did was start selling it through their subsidiary Multon Partners. Which reminds me of how Coke invented Fanta so they could keep selling drinks to the Nazis during WWII.
And that's all before you get into the company's awful record on environmental pollution, being the single-biggest plastic polluter on the planet, their decimation of water supplies around the world, and historically their support for apartheid South Africa and their history of racism in the United States in both marketing strategy and employment practices. And I'm not even touching the health problems.
All in all, it is a hideous company, your body is better off without their products in it, and the world is better off without your money in their pockets.
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