Say What?
With a growth of international members, steps have been taken to accommodate boycott members who speak other languages. Though all I've got at the moment is one base page that I'm working on getting translated into as many pages as possible, information will be expanded as things move along. Here's an English version of the translated summary.
" The Coca-Cola Company owns and markets beverages across the globe, from Sprite and Inca-Cola to Dr. Pepper, Minute-Maid, Fanta and Dasani. It is involved with college scholarships and promotes health, wellness and environmental responsibility on its website in cheerful, eye-catching ways. However, like many multinational corporations, the Coca-Cola Company has another face: the face of its subsidiaries.
This face the subsidiaries show is not a pleasant one of give and take. Not one of money, jobs and resources cycling sustainably through the community. Instead, it’s a face all too similar to that of many large corporations, one masking a split personality. The mask is the public side of the company, disguising the acts perpetrated by subsidiaries that the parent company funds and validates. Who wouldn’t want such realities downplayed? As Coca-Cola’s subsidiaries drain third world communities of water, put pesticides in drinks sold in India, knock off union leaders, ruin community lands and community livelihoods because it’s simply easier to do in the Third World, we have been marketed into a sense of security. The Coca-Cola Company uses its power and iconic identity as a symbol of American culture to hide the truths that go on unchecked across our borders. Still, what can we do when there are so many of these multinational companies and so many masks?
We focus on one company. Angrily lashing out at all of the companies and hoping to damage each of them slightly isn’t as effective as organizing and focusing our power as consumers. Informed, vocal, and unified consumers intimidate corporations. That fear creates the lack of transparency and the marketing mask.. We can prove that we’re focused, informed, and thinking by organizing a boycott against one gigantic corporation. We want the power of numbers. We want you.
Who are we? No one different than people you see every day. Among our ranks are those from all paths of life. The point has nothing to do with our background, income or age and instead the difference we are ready to make. It’s time for a world where no one fears to stand up to corruption because of corporate wealth and power. We refuse apathy. We are the change we want to see, and we want you on board.
—One Teen (among many)
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" The Coca-Cola Company owns and markets beverages across the globe, from Sprite and Inca-Cola to Dr. Pepper, Minute-Maid, Fanta and Dasani. It is involved with college scholarships and promotes health, wellness and environmental responsibility on its website in cheerful, eye-catching ways. However, like many multinational corporations, the Coca-Cola Company has another face: the face of its subsidiaries.
This face the subsidiaries show is not a pleasant one of give and take. Not one of money, jobs and resources cycling sustainably through the community. Instead, it’s a face all too similar to that of many large corporations, one masking a split personality. The mask is the public side of the company, disguising the acts perpetrated by subsidiaries that the parent company funds and validates. Who wouldn’t want such realities downplayed? As Coca-Cola’s subsidiaries drain third world communities of water, put pesticides in drinks sold in India, knock off union leaders, ruin community lands and community livelihoods because it’s simply easier to do in the Third World, we have been marketed into a sense of security. The Coca-Cola Company uses its power and iconic identity as a symbol of American culture to hide the truths that go on unchecked across our borders. Still, what can we do when there are so many of these multinational companies and so many masks?
We focus on one company. Angrily lashing out at all of the companies and hoping to damage each of them slightly isn’t as effective as organizing and focusing our power as consumers. Informed, vocal, and unified consumers intimidate corporations. That fear creates the lack of transparency and the marketing mask.. We can prove that we’re focused, informed, and thinking by organizing a boycott against one gigantic corporation. We want the power of numbers. We want you.
Who are we? No one different than people you see every day. Among our ranks are those from all paths of life. The point has nothing to do with our background, income or age and instead the difference we are ready to make. It’s time for a world where no one fears to stand up to corruption because of corporate wealth and power. We refuse apathy. We are the change we want to see, and we want you on board.
—One Teen (among many)
"