Coca-Cola Revolt in India

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Vilayedi Venugopal, the leader of the Anti-Coca-Cola Agitation Committee, has been protesting against the Coke plant in Plachimada, Kerala for the past five years, even though its been shut since 2004. He lives 12km away, but comes regularly to sit in a thatched hut just outside the sprawling complex, which he calls "the exploitative arm of American Empire." But do the villagers living right next to the plant also link Coke to America?

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[diogeneslaertius666]

all corporations are externalizing machines, who pays the costs they cut when it comes to how they use water, poor people who need the water to live.

corporations can MURDER people and no one cares and nothing is done about it.

[CincinnatiGifts]

The video fails to mention how the water is being polluted, whether Coca Cola has anything to do with it, why the protesters are there, what they want Coca Cola to do about it, why the plant has closed after just five years, and what the "revolt" is all about.

Not a very good news story if a viewer can walk away with more questions than the video can answer.

[lunatickerala]

If Coke has done wrong, why blame America? If TCS abuses American system, why blame India?

[belegulo]

coca cola need water for what? they only create a syrup for machines.