The Killer Coke Campaign--an international effort coordinating a campaign against Coca-Cola in response to the company's human rights abuses in Colombia--is reporting that the University of Michigan is continuing to support allowing Coca-Cola products back on campus after they were banned in 2005. According to the campaign, Coca-Cola failed to meet deadlines set by the University's administration for an investigation into labor abuses in Colombia as well as environmental issues in India. Coca-Cola products were allowed back onto the University of Michigan's campus in the spring of 2006 after Coca-Cola assured the University that investigations would be conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Colombia. However, those investigations were not completed by the University's March 31 deadline and a Coca-Cola executive led an effort to prevent the ILO from investigating the allegations.
In recent months, a number of schools have ended contracts with Coca-Cola including Grand Rapids' Aquinas College, the University of Illinois at Urbana, and Banaras Hindu University in India. At press time, 45 colleges and universities have stopped selling Coca-Cola products according to the Killer Coke campaign.
