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NYU Bans Coca-Cola Products on Campus

HeadlineDec 09, 2005

In campus news, the university senate at New York University has voted to stop the sale and promotion of Coca-Cola products on school grounds. Coca-Cola currently markets over 1,000 different products, including Dasani water, Nestea, Evian, Minute Maid, Odwala and Powerade. Campaigns have been launched on campuses across the country in response to allegations the company has overseen and covered up human rights abuses at bottling plants in Colombia. Advocates say seven Coca-Cola workers with the country’s largest food and beverage workers’ union have been killed in the last 16 years. Coca-Cola representatives had appeared before the university senate to discourage the vote. The ban will remain in place until Coca-Cola agrees to an independent investigation into conditions at its Colombia bottling plants.

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