Coca-Cola ki maa ki Aankh

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Salute to Mr. Sharad Haksar :Salute:
and a huge Danda in Coca Cola’s A$$

And also Salute to Indian for fighting the capitalist monster who is robbing their clean drinking water in broad day light

Coca-Coca, Go to hell ! :nook:

London (July 12, 2005): The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the Atlanta based Coca-Cola company, has threatened Mr. Sharad Haksar, one of India’s celebrated photographers, with a lawsuit.
Mr. Haksar, a leading international photographer and winner of the 2005 Cannes Silver Lion, has placed a large billboard in one of Chennai’s busiest areas - one of India’s largest cities - with his own “work (which) is solely an expression of creativity.”

The billboard features the ubiquitous red Coca-Cola wall painting, commonly found across India. Directly preceding the Coca-Cola ad, and part of the billboard, is a dry water hand-pump, with empty vessels waiting to be filled up with water - a common scene in India, particularly in Chennai.
On July 11, 2005, the law firm of Daniel & Gladys, who represent Coca-Cola’s Indian subsidiary, sent a letter to Mr. Haksar threatening him with serious legal actions unless the billboard was replaced ‘unconditionally and immediately’. Coca-Cola would seek Indian Rupees 2 million (US$ 45,000) for “incalculable damage to the goodwill and reputation” of Coca-Cola, and also sought an ‘unconditional apology in writing’.

Mr. Haksar said, “I have no intentions of issuing any apology. Because I have not committed anything wrong. If Coke pursues this legal course, my lawyers shall take appropriate counter action.”

Mr. Haksar’s billboard highlights the severe water shortages being experienced by communities that live around Coca-Cola’s bottling plants across India. A community close to Chennai, in Gangaikondan, has already held large protests - protesting against an upcoming Coca-Cola plant. In the neighboring state of Kerala, in the village of Plachimada, Coca-Cola has been unable to open its bottling facility for the last 16 months - because the community will not allow it to.

Coca-Cola is in serious trouble in India. A massive rural movement has emerged to hold the company accountable for creating water shortages and polluting the remaining water and soil.

**“We appreciate Mr. Haksar’s efforts and we condemn Coca-Cola’s attempts to silence a public discourse on the issues,” said Amit Srivastava of the international campaigning organization, India Resource Center. The campaign continues to receive tremendous public support internationally and has put the Coca-Cola company on the defensive. **

The recently held Live 8 concerts pulled out with negotiations with Coca-Cola over sponsorships because of public opposition, spearheaded by the India Resource Center. Coca-Cola was also banned from the Make Poverty History March as a result, on July 2, 2005, a march of close to 300,000 people in Edinburgh in Scotland.

Next time you drink coke Don’t puke if get the taste of blood, cuase blood of innocent people is main ingredient of killer coke:yummy:

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/index.html

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Thats big business for you lad. Watch the documentary - "The Corporation". It will open your eyes on how these massive shareholder interest companies operate.

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Coca-Cola and Water - An Unsustainable Relationship

by Amit Srivastava
India Resource Center
March 8, 2006

Water is essential to life and the lifeblood of our planet. Without water, we cannot sustain life.

Lack of access to clean, drinking water is a reality for over 1.2 billion people- about 20% of the world’s population, and mostly in developing parts of the world. Providing access to potable water remains one of the greatest challenges for the global community today.

From March 16-22, 2006, Mexico will host the fourth World Water Forum, an important international meeting aimed at ameliorating the water crisis in the world and “assuring better living standards for people all over the world and a more responsible social behavior towards water issues in-line with the pursuit of sustainable development,” according to the forum organizers.

What then, we ask, is the Coca-Cola company doing as one of the leading sponsors of the World Water Forum? As a champion of unsustainable use of water globally, Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the forum puts the very credibility of the World Water Forum at stake.

The Coca-Cola company is the largest beverage company in the world, and according to its own admission, the company used 283 billion liters of water in 2004.

Any way you look at it, 283 billion liters of water is a lot of water-particularly in a world where over 1 billion people in the world cannot meet their basic water needs.

It is enough water to meet the entire world’s drinking needs for 10 days! If we use the water that Coca-Cola used in 2004, we could meet the entire drinking needs of people who don’t currently have access to clean drinking water for 47 days!
To add insult to injury, the Coca-Cola company doesn’t just stop at extracting 283 billion liters of water.

The Coca-Cola company proudly boasts that it has a water use ratio of 2.7 to 1. That is, **for every 2.7 liters of water (freshwater) it takes from the earth, it produces 1 liter of product. What happens to the remaining 1.7 liters (or 63%) of the water? It is used to clean bottles and machinery, and is discarded as wastewater. **

In a world where one of 5 people do not have access to potable water, it is indeed preposterous that any company could extract such large amounts of life sustaining water, and convert the vast majority of the freshwater into wastewater. Especially given that freshwater is scarce- only 2.5% of all the water in the world is freshwater, the rest being salt water.

Tens of thousands of people all across India are challenging Coca-Cola for its abuse of water resources. Coca-Cola bottling plants have dramatically affected both the quantity and quality of groundwater resources as a result of its operations, making access to water by communities even more difficult.
The company regularly extracts up to one million liters of water per day in some areas in India. The result has been sharp drops in groundwater levels, resulting in severe water shortages for tens of thousands of people.

**Coca-Cola’s water use ratio in India is 4 to 1 - that is, 75% of the freshwater it extracts is turned into wastewater. The company has indiscriminately discharged its wastewater into the surrounding fields, severely polluting the scarce remaining groundwater as well as soil. **

The impacts being felt by the communities who live around Coca-Cola’s bottling plants are no small matter. In a country where over 70% of the population still makes a living related to agriculture, taking away the water and poisoning the remaining water and the soil has had dramatic consequences.

Thousands of farmers across India are struggling to make a living because of crop failure as a result of the water shortages created by the Coca-Cola company.

Coca-Cola’s abuses in India are being challenged vigorously by communities all across India. One of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling plants, in Plachimada, in the state of Kerala, has remained shut down since March 2004 because the village council has refused to allow it to extract any more water from the common groundwater resource.

Yielding to the growing public outcry, the state government of Kerala has now challenged the Coca-Cola company’s operations to the Supreme Court of India, arguing that “poor villages are deprived of drinking water due to overuse of ground water by Coca-Cola plant at Plachimada to produce bottled drinks for sale to people who have purchasing capacity in different cities of the country.”

Similarly, in other parts of India such as Mehdiganj, Kala Dera and Gangaikondan, communities have organized themselves and are challenging Coca-Cola’s abuse of water resources.

Communities in India are joined by a formidable international campaign to hold the Coca-Cola company accountable, which has resulted in increasing the pressure on the company to stop its abuses in India.

**Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the World Water Forum is viewed incredulously by communities in India. How can a company with an atrocious record of abusing precious water resources be at the forefront of sponsoring an international forum whose goal is to promote the sustainable use of water? **

Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the World Water Forum is clearly a public relations maneuver by the company to divert attention from the reality of Coca-Cola’s relationship with water.
Communities in India and their allies are adamant that the campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its crimes in India will continue to grow in size and strength until the company makes genuine efforts to deal with the water crisis it has created in India.

Until then the Coca-Cola company has no place at the World Water Forum.

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Codie, please also check the topic of weapons being supplied to the military regimes by the western world specially to the African countries ...... That would help you grow up a lot more.

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^ Will do

But first you people should stop drinking blood of thirsty people in form of good for nothing carbonated drinks :p

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Being a vampire, blood is my only pleasure in life,, ecpecially when that blood is being presented in a cultured bottrld n fizzy form. No more dirty clothes .

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I don drink cola :yahoo:..

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^ yeah wonder how much fractions less pepsi uses.....

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People ! this is a seious topic :halo:

And sadly it seem like people of india are more aware and proactive regarding social issue than rest of the world.

Coca Cola is nightmare for natural envirnment, pepsi is no better either

Just imagine 283 billion liters of “Fresh” water and it waste 2/3 of it. And these are just the official figures …

For those who did not bother to click on first link here

the billboard which is turning into pain in the a.s.s for Coca Cola india.

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Stop drinking stolen water, stop drinking carbonated drinks
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but yaar i like coca cola

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our university boycotted them

Fall Colors!
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Question everything. Of course, everything written on Inida Resource Center is 100% accurate.

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I like PEPSI…:dhimpak:

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interesting....

playing the devil's advocate here:
wouldn't opening up a bottling plant in a rural area create jobs for people which in turn would provide them with some sort of money to buy water?

I haven't read all the articles but just a thought.

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^ you have a lost case then

Coca Cola is in deeep deep trouble in india, the opposition is both from public and from state govt.

  • Communities across India living around Coca-Cola’s bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola’s massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table.

  • When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption.

  • In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as “fertilizer”. Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government.

  • Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market. And as if selling drinks with DDT and other pesticides to Indians was not enough, one of Coca-Cola’s latest bottling facilities to open in India, in Ballia, is located in an area with a severe contamination of arsenic in its groundwater.

See the real face of your favorite beverages company :clap:

Sheraz, Kaleem - here is an rejuvenating fact for you two

***“Despite having less than 5% of worlds population, USA, alone consumes (wastes) more than 25% of worlds resources” ***

Feeling proud ???

Now wait for a couple of decades and US soldiers will be fiighting War on terror in Rain forests in order to provide thirsty American a sip of drinking water !

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^ yikes!
thanks for the info Codey.
Reminds me of the movie "Constant Gardener"

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[QUOTE]
***"Despite having less than 5% of worlds population, USA, alone consumes (wastes) more than 25% of worlds resources"

***Feeling proud ???

Now wait for a couple of decades and US soldiers will be fiighting War on terror in Rain forests in order to provide thirsty American a sip of drinking water !
[/QUOTE]

Cody, I have nice piece of real estate to sell you..contact me offline. Check that, sky indeed is falling. Lets run and take cover.

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I left coca cola ages back becaz of the following reasons
!) it tastes in the asian countries is very much different from those of the western . those of u who often visit pk can confirm it theirselves.
2) it does not have good trademark and logos and advertisements :hehe:

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Codey uncle... Borrowed causes don't do it for me... Have a look in ur own homeland, I have been to a bottling plant there , why don't u go and do some research and then enlighten us and the ppl there.. start a revolution.... But I dun think u'll be doing that.

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Usually i would say ----If i own my on company and some photographer decides to use my name and bash the company's reputation. You bet your a$$ he is going to seek some serious issues.

In this situation! There is a lot of water in this world - coca cola can have over 40% of it - believe me we would still have more than enough.

They should take those cigarette companies and start taking pictures of those - plus the drugs. Those companies should immediately shut down- oh and not to forget Alcohol.