Killer Coke!

Since the beginning of his Freshman year at NYU's Gallatin School my brother Dave has been a leader in the national Killer Coke campaign.

In a nutshell, Coke's subsidiaries in Columbia have been accused of working with para-military groups to block efforts to unionize the bottling plants. According to the Killer Coke website, union-busting tactics have included murder, torture and kidnapping.

The Killer Coke campaign's goal is to get Coca Cola to agree to an independent investigation of the human rights abuses.

Coca Cola refuses.

So in order to put pressure on the company, students have now taken to calling for their universities to cancel contracts with Coke.

Coca Cola seems scared... they even sent a rep. from Atlanta to debate my brother at the end of last semester.

NYU stopped short of banning Coke from campus. Instead they recently sent a letter to Coke requesting that they work with the Worker Rights Consortium to address the allegations.

What's the next step for NYU's Killer Coke ativists? Stay tuned (or maybe Dave will update us using the "comment" feature). In the meantime, check out the latest article on the Killer Coke campaign from NYU's Washington Square News.