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India: Major Protest Demands Coca-Cola Shut Down Plant

Boycott Coke! | 07.04.2008 14:04 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles

Over 1500 villagers marched to the Coca-Cola company's bottling plant in Mehdiganj in Varanasi in India last Tuesday 1st April demanding that the bottling plant shut down immediately.

Major Protest Demands Coca-Cola Shut Down Plant
 http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2008/1034.html
Importante Protesta en Demanda del Cierre de una Planta de Coca-Cola
 http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2008/1036.html

Over 1500 villagers marched to the Coca-Cola company's bottling plant in Mehdiganj in Varanasi in India last Tuesday 1st April demanding that the bottling plant shut down immediately. Breaking a police barrier that attempted to keep the protesters 300 meters from the bottling plant, the villagers held a rally at the plant's gate accusing the company of creating severe water shortages in the area and polluting the water and land.

Más de 1500 pobladores marcharon ayer hacia la planta embotelladora de Coca-cola en Mehdiganj, Varanasi, India en demanda del cierre inmediato. Traspasando una barrera policial que pretendía mantener a los manifestantes a una distancia de 300 metros de la planta embotelladora, los pobladores de la villa realizaron una demostración de fuerza en las puertas de la planta, acusando a la compañía de haber creado una severa escasez de agua en el área y de haber contaminado el agua y los terrenos.

Coca-Cola: A Model for Good Public Relations, Not Sustainability
 http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2008/opinion.html

The Coca-Cola company and its CEO, Mr. Neville Isdell, must be congratulated for some excellent public relations work lately, and in particular, in India. Neville Isdell was the "guest editor" of the Economic Times on March 17, 2008 and he used the platform provided him to pull off a wonderful public relations coup that would make marketing textbooks - create an image of itself that it clearly is not. Read our response which was published as a “guest opinion” in the Economic Times.

TAKE ACTION NOW!! ¡TOME ACCION AHORA!!

Coca-Cola: CLOSE Bottling Plants in Kala Dera and Mehdiganj
 http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcoke.php

Coca-Cola: CIERREN Plantas Embotelladoras en Kala Dera y Mehdiganj
 http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcokeesp.php

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