15 References

1. http://www.killercoke.org/

-Killer Coke has provided a good range of general information regarding the Coca-Cola Company’s activity in Columbia. There is a concise summary of Coke’s alleged crimes, but there is a heavy bias against the company, and this must be kept in mind as you view the website.

2. http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/coca_cola.htm

-The above link takes you to an abbreviated history of Coca-Cola, both the product and the company. It is by no means in depth, but it does give important dates and basic information that is useful for gaining perspective on the company’s origins and growth.

3. http://www.fromwhatiheard.com/2007/03/14/the-effects-drinking-a-coke-has-on-your-body/

-This website is not particularly academic, but it does give a good, semi-scientific outline of Coca-Cola’s effects on the human body, which are distressing and numerous. Though it does not help with the Coca-Cola v. SINALTRAINAL debate, it does provide a different perspective against Coca-Cola’s “feel good” advertising campaign.

4. http://www.coca-cola.com/index.jsp

-The Coca-Cola website provides an unabridged glimpse into their ideal public image. A lot if what I saw on here influenced my thinking about how the company wants us to view them.

5. http://www.mycokerewards.com/home.do

-Another glimpse of Coca-Cola from behind enemy lines. The MyCokeRewards program allows buyers to cash in on extra benefit for their products. Though again not essential to the SINALTRAINAL debate, it’s another interesting look at what Coke provides its customers outside of the product itself.

6. http://www.livepositively.com/#/home

-This website was crucial to my blog on public opinion and how it affects the reaction to a company’s practices. Many of the humanitarian and philanthropic actions that Coke claims to sponsor here are in direct contradiction to accusations made against them by groups like SINALTRAINAL.

7. http://www.sinaltrainal.org/

-Once you run this page through a Google translator it provides one of the most complete and useful databases of Coke’s crimes, as collected by the SINALTRAINAL organization. I have come back here numerous times for dates, lists of martyrs within the organization, and a straight from the source voice of the workers in Columbia.

8. http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/162/28046.html

-This article gives a good overview of Coca-Cola’s presence in India. The dates and figures provided here give it a solid, scientific background that lends veracity to the article.

9. http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2003/communitiesprotest.html

-The article provides another outline of Coca-Cola’s presence in India, though this section is specific to Tamil Nadu. The claims concern exploitation of the water system in a drought ridden region, which is an obvious argument against the “water conversation efforts” claimed by livepositively.com.

10. http://www.waronwant.org/news/campaigns-news/15153-coca-cola-drinking-the-world-dry/

-This article provides more information about Coca-Cola and water conservation, though this one takes a broader stance than the other two, referring to multiple countries that have Coca-Cola bottling plants on their soil. The visual images lend a personality to the arguments.

11. http://www.mindfully.org/Water/2005/India-Coca-Cola-Pepsi14mar05.htm

-Another article on water tables and India, though this one provides information on the history of the Coca-Cola Company in India, from when the company was first voted off of Indian soil in 1977 to their return in 1993.

12. http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/nike/en_US/?

-Though it is a different company, I have referenced Nike several times in my blog, comparing the company’s public image with Coca-Cola’s and using this as a starting point to compare the public reaction to each company’s humanitarian violations.

13. http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pdf/2004-1-0085.pdf

-A highly detailed and academic perspective on Coca-Cola in India, this file provides numerous quality references and facts about the company’s presence in the country, as well as its response to the recent college campus boycotts.

14. http://www.labournet.net/world/0404/coke1.html

-Another high quality document, this is a collection of the letters of protest sent from SINALTRAINAL to the Coca-Cola Company after the alleged attacks in Columbia. This was one of the first documents that I found related to the issue.

15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola

-Though there is a stigma against Wikipedia in the academic community, all of the dates in the grid at the bottom of the page are correct, so I use it as a reference point when I am completing a blog and a fact slips my mind.


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