The Coke Machine - Michael Blanding [181]
Page 219 owned some 50 million Coke shares: “SunTrust Sells Coca-Cola Shares It’s Held 88 Years,” CNBC.com, May 15, 2007, http://www.cnbc.com/id/18677410.
Page 220 casualties of a globalizing economy: See Klein, No Logo.
Page 220 protests at the WTO meetings: For an activists’ perspective on the event, see David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit, The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle (Edinburgh, Scotland: AK Press, 2009).
Page 220 patchouli-scented caravan of activists: See Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002).
Page 220 removed Coke from its campus: Lovell, “Students Call for Coke Boycott”; “Boycott Killer Coke!” Colombia Action Network.
Page 220 Bard College in upstate New York followed suit: Lovell, “Students Call for Coke Boycott”; Baran, “Stop Killer Coke!”
Page 221 “Unfortunately, Bard College officials”: Lovell, “Students Call for Coke Boycott.”
Page 221 passed by fewer than sixty votes: Shane Hegarty, “Students Give Coke the Push,” Irish Times, October 18, 2003.
Page 221 won by an even higher margin: Lovell, “Students Call for Coke Boycott.”
Page 221 $100,000-a-year budget: Campaign to Stop Killer Coke grant requests, 2006 and 2007; Rogers, interview by the author.
Page 221 Coke’s $30 billion: The Coca-Cola Company, Annual Report, 2010.
Page 221 mentioned the situation in Colombia: Paul Klebnikov, “Coke’s Sinful World,” Forbes, December 22, 2003.
Page 222 voted twelve to eight to remove Carleton’s Coke machines: The details of this account stem solely from Rogers; however, independent sources corroborate the fact that he attended the meeting and debated Coke’s representative. See Ian Werkheiser, “Killer Coke,” Z Magazine, August 1, 2004, and Margaret Webb, “Human Rights Charges Still Gnaw at Coca-Cola,” Washington Post, April 22, 2004.
Page 222 next campus to sever its ties with Coke: Avi Chomsky, interview by the author.
Page 223 honored as a civil rights pioneer: Brian C. Mooney, “Patrick’s Path from Courtroom to Boardroom,” Boston Globe, August 13, 2006.
Page 223 “from human rights violations”: Letter from Terry Collingsworth to Equal Justice Works board members, October 2, 2003.
Page 223 “so we could see”: Webb, “Human Rights Charges Still Gnaw at Coca-Cola.”
Page 223 “sources close to the situation”: Webb, “Human Rights Changes Still Gnaw at Coca-Cola.”
Page 223 “confidence in the brand”: Joan Vennochi, “Killer Coke’s Charges Go Flat,” Boston Globe, August 10, 2006.
Page 223 “either of two things”: Mooney, “Patrick’s Path from Courtroom to Boardroom.”
Page 223 The company refused: Vennochi, “Killer Coke’s Charges Go Flat.”
Page 224 $2.1 million consulting contract: Mooney, “Patrick’s Path from Courtroom to Boardroom.”
Page 224 the campaign played a role in Daft’s own retirement: Rogers, interview by the author.
Page 224 Rogers had a love-hate relationship: Rogers, interview by the author.
Page 224 “Coke has shown”: Final Report, “An Investigation of Allegations of Murder and Violence in Coca-Cola’s Bottling Plants,” NYC Fact-Finding Delegation on Coca-Cola in Colombia led by New York city councilman Hiram Monserrate, April 2004.
Page 224 first-quarter profits of $1.13 billion: Scott Leith, “Coke’s First-Quarter Profit Climbs 35 Percent,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 22, 2004.
Page 225 Daft addressed the Colombia situation . . . call for an independent investigation: The account of the 2004 shareholders meeting draws on video shown on Democracy Now!, April 27, 2004, “Killer Coke: Activist Disrupts Coca Cola Shareholders Meeting” (http://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/27/stream), as well as Ray Rogers, interview by the author, and the following contemporaneous news reports: Grow, “Labor Activity Bubbly over Coca-Cola Fight”; Scott Leith and Matt Kempner, “Scuffle, Catcalls Spice Coca-Cola’s Annual Meeting in Delaware,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 22, 2004; and Webb, “Human Rights Charges Still Gnaw at Coca-Cola.”
Page 225 hadn’t intended the meeting to turn physical: