San Francisco vs. Sugary Drinks youtube Fox News

Isidro Segundo Gil murdered in Columbia (Boycott Coca Cola)
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Independent News & Views
September 3, 2001

A lawsuit filed in a Miami federal court accuses the Coca-Cola Company, its Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of collaborating with paramilitary death squads to threaten, kidnap and murder union leaders at its Colombian bottling plants.

The lawsuit was filed on July 20 by the United Steelworkers of America and the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of Sinaltrainal, the union that represents Colombian Coca-Cola workers, the estate of murdered union leader Isidro Segundo Gil and five other unionists who worked for Coca-Cola and were targeted by paramilitaries. "We are filing this case to show our solidarity with the embattled trade unions of Colombia," says Steelworkers President Leo Gerard.

Coca Cola "What Goes Around Comes Around" youtube

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Sinaltrainal wikipedia
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SINALTRAINAL
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The National Union of Food Industry Workers (Spanish: Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos, SINALTRAINAL) is a Colombian food industry trade union.

The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco, a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by right-wing paramilitary groups such as the AUC[1][2] in order to prevent unionisation. They are a central focus of the ongoing Coca-Cola boycott movement [3] prevalent across college campuses worldwide (see criticism of Coca-Cola).

John Pemberton
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Invention of Coca-Cola
In April 1865, Pemberton was wounded in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia, and like many wounded veterans he became addicted to morphine. After the war Pemberton knew he had a problem so he became a pharmacist at the Eagle Drug & Chemical Company in Columbus. Searching for a cure for this addiction, he began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating his own version of Vin Mariani, containing kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.[4][5]

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Dr. Pemberton Inventer of Coca-ColaWith public concern about drug addiction, depression and alcoholism among veterans, and 'neurasthenia' among 'highly-strung' Southern women,[6] his medicinal concoction was advertised as being particularly beneficial for "ladies, and all those whose sedentary employment causes nervous prostration, irregularities of the stomach, bowels and kidneys, who require a nerve tonic and a pure, delightful diffusable stimulant".[7]

In 1885, when Atlanta and Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, Pemberton produced a nonalcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca. Frank Mason Robinson came up with the name "Coca-Cola" for the alliterative sound, which was popular among other wine medicines of the time. Although the name quite clearly refers to the two main ingredients, the controversy over cocaine content would later prompt The Coca-Cola Company to state that it is "meaningless but fanciful". Robinson also hand wrote the Spencerian script on the bottles and ads. Pemberton also made many health claims for his product and marketed it as 'delicious, refreshing, exhilarating, invigorating' and touted it as a 'valuable brain tonic' that would cure headaches, relieve exhaustion and calm nerves.

The original formula allegedly called for 8.46 mg of cocaine, while an average dose of the street drug is between 15 and 35 mg. However, the effects of the coca leaf is greatly compounded by the presence of caffeine from the kola nut. Coca-Cola was originally advertised as a cure for morphine and opium addictions among a multitude of other health benefits.

Asa Candler bought the business in 1888. In 1894, Coke was sold in bottles for the first time. During World War II, bottling plants were set up in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific islands.

[edit] John Pemberton in Popular Culture
In 2010 the Coca-Cola Company paid tribute to Pemberton as a key character within an advertising campaign called Secret Formula. Centered on the secret ingredients of Coca-Cola, imagery related to Pemberton was used to make people more aware of Coke’s history and mythology.


Branding Santa Claus
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Coke Lore
Coca-Cola® and Santa Claus
Most people can agree on what Santa Claus looks like -- jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola® advertising actually helped shape this modern-day image of Santa.

2006 marked the 75th anniversary of the famous Coca-Cola Santa Claus. Starting in 1931, magazine ads for Coca-Cola featured St. Nick as a kind, jolly man in a red suit. Because magazines were so widely viewed, and because this image of Santa appeared for more than three decades, the image of Santa most people have today is largely based on our advertising.

Before the 1931 introduction of the Coca-Cola Santa Claus created by artist Haddon Sundblom, the image of Santa ranged from big to small and fat to tall. Santa even appeared as an elf and looked a bit spooky.

Coca Cola scandal
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At KillerCoke's Website You'll find a raft of information on Coke and its bottlers' operations in Colombia. There is extensive documentation of rampant violence committed against Coke's unionized workforce by paramilitary forces, and powerful claims of the company's complicity in the violence.

An April 2004 report from a fact-finding delegation headed by New York City Council Member Hiram Monserrate contends:

“To date, there have been a total of 179 major human rights violations of Coca-Cola's workers, including nine murders. Family members of union activists have been abducted and tortured. Union members have been fired for attending union meetings. The company has pressured workers to resign their union membership and contractual rights, and fired workers who refused to do so.”

Advertising and the selling of obesity
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Coca-Cola serves as a good example of how product advertising changed over this forty-year period. When first introduced in the 1880s, the product was marketed as a medicine, with claims that it cured headaches, and that it "revived and sustained" a person. Seeking to build repeat business and brand loyalty, by the 1920s the company emphasized it as a refreshment and a "fun food". Consumers demanding the cola at soda fountains could pressure storeowners to stock it, or risk losing their business. Today Coca-Cola is one of the largest and most visible companies in the world thanks to its successful advertisement campaigns.

San Francisco’s Mayor Proposes Fee on Sales of Sugary Soft Drinks
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San Francisco’s Mayor Proposes Fee on Sales of Sugary Soft Drinks

Published: December 18, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO — In a move he says is necessary to trim the city’s waistline, the decidedly slim mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, has proposed charging big stores a fee when they sell sugar-sweet soda.

The proposal, which was reported by The San Francisco Chronicle on Monday, would put an as yet-to-be-defined surcharge on all drinks with high-fructose corn syrup, which puts the sweet pop in most nondiet sodas and many other food products. The syrup also puts on the pounds, something city officials say strains the health care system.

Gavin Newsom wants soda vending machines off San Francisco City property
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Gavin Newsom Wants Soda Vending Machines Off San Francisco City Property
by Katherine Gustafson July 07, 2010 07:15 AM (PT)

Leave it to San Francisco to design an official city policy that includes soy milk.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is running for lieutenant governor, has dictated that vending machines on city property may no longer sell sugary drinks. His directive allows "ample choices' of water, soy milk, rice milk, and other similar dairy or non-dairy milk," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sugary-drink ban starts to affect S.F. sites
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John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer

San Francisco Chronicle July 6, 2010 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Coca-Cola is out, and soy milk is now part of San Francisco's official city policy.

Under an executive order from Mayor Gavin Newsom, Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange are no longer allowed in vending machines on city property, although their diet counterparts are - up to a point.

Newsom's directive, issued in April but whose practical impacts are starting to be felt now, bars calorically sweetened beverages from vending machines on city property.

Coke, it's the real thing
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Flying Cocaine From Curaçao To The Netherlands
By Steve Leslie
After a nine hour flight from Curaçao to Amsterdam, we had finished securing B767-200 TF-ATY, and were preparing to leave the aircraft and make haste to our layover hotel. As I stepped out of the flight deck, I noticed a number of Dutch customs officers looking very much like Israeli commandos standing by the 1L (left forward) entry door. The “commandos” were waiting for the last passengers to deplane, so that they could initiate a routine search of the aircraft. Their mascot, a drug sniffing dog, seemed particularly eager to begin his duties and find a “treat." A few minutes after the last passenger had gone; the dog had skilfully located a “treat” in the back of an economy class seat pocket. The dog treat turned out to be one kilo of unprocessed cocaine, also known as cocaine hydrochloride (HCL).