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Coke Watch Coca Cola has a responsibility to ensure that the conditions under which their products are produced are safe, it claims. http://www.cokewatch.org

Corporate Screw Job: Coca-Cola vs. Bob Kolody Brief description of the case. http://www.grumpymen.com/CSJ/csj_coke.htm

Drink of the Death Squads Lyrics and MP3 downloads of song about Coca-Cola and the AUC in Columbia, by David Rovics. http://www.soundclick.com/pro/default.cfm?BandID=111310&content=lyrics&SongID=756835

India Resource Center: Coke Campaign Campaign site for community struggles against Coca-Cola in India. http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/

NOW with Bill Moyers - Response from Coca-Cola India Claims that the groundwater water shortage is due to lack of normal rainfall. http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_cocacolaletter.html

Pediatric Dentists Accused of Selling Out to Coke "...The grant will make the AAPD a captive of Coca-Cola, making it extremely unlikely that the AAPD will take positions antagonistic to the company..." http://www.cspinet.org/new/200303041.html

Skolnick's Report: Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts Seven part series about the close links between Coca-Cola, covert operations of the CIA and the Echelon spy machine, and the mafia. http://www.skolnicksreport.com/cocaccc.html

Critics Attack Coke's BBC Chart Deal "...Coca-Cola is certain to face accusations of hypocrisy after recent declarations that it would stop advertising to the under-12s." [Guardian] (December 1, 2003) http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/dec/01/broadcasting.marketingandpr1

Coke Pays Off Whistleblower Coca-Cola knowingly sold contaminated drinks to its customers and had rigged a marketing test in order to increase sales were some of the allegations. [BBC] (October 8, 2003) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3175138.stm

Accused of Leaving Farms Parched and Land Poisoned Coca-Cola in India faces criticism for various environmental damages. [Guardian] (July 25, 2003) http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,1005564,00.html

Coca-Cola Boycott Launched after Killings at Colombian Plants Trade unions around the world are alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia used illegal paramilitary groups to intimidate, threaten and kill its workers. [Guardian] (July 24, 2003) http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,11502,1004612,00.html

Coke Deal Could Make Schools Target of Suits Seattle School Board warned that it might become the target of an anti-obesity lawsuit for allowing schools to peddle soda to students. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter] (July 2, 2003) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/129155_coke02.html

Coke, Pepsi Feel the Heat in Kerala Companies are charged with depleting water level ('exploitation of water resources') in Kerala villages. [Rediff] (May 23, 2003) http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/may/23cola.htm

Coke Paints the Himalayas Red "India's Supreme Court has asked Coca-Cola and Pepsi to explain why their logos are painted on the Himalaya mountains." [BBC] (August 15, 2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2195894.stm

Coke Sued Over Death Squad Claims The world's largest soft drink maker is being sued over allegations that it employed right-wing death squads in Colombia. [BBC] (July 30, 2001) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1448962.stm