“The Soda Wars” have been raging for well over 100 years and the
argument of “Coca Cola is nice than Pepsi” or vice-versa is older than the
hills. People have different palettes and like different things, that argument can
never be settled.
Coke vs. Pepsi
Long-term exclusivity contracts are dangerous,
because if a corporation ever commits unforgivable atrocities, the University
is obliged to honor amount of years of the contract. And be assured that if a
union in Colombia called on a boycott of Pepsi for union busting, we would be
launching a Kick Pepsi off Campus Campaign as soon as the workers called for
international solidarity but no workers in Pepsi’s bottling plants have
requested solidarity from international human rights activists. No active union
has been organizing against Pepsi for nearly ten years. But SINALTRAINAL has
been calling on Coca-Cola to meet their demands for almost that long and as
allies of this Colombian union, we kicked Coke off Campus to support their campaign.
Ideally, when we first started the campaign, we wanted to have local, more
“healthy” options for our campus community. We didn’t want another Corporation
to grace us with its sugary, addictive drinks. But then reality set in—as
tuition increases and students are forced to take on one and two jobs in
addition to being full-time students, they need sugar and caffeine. So we got
off our hippie high horses and looked for local soda companies
