"Coca-Colanization" or "Just Bitter Water" in Kerala Plant
Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content. var thisObj = "flashobj0723071"; var so = new SWFObject("http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/wpniplayer_blog.swf", thisObj, "454", "305", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always"); so.addParam("swfliveconnect", true); so.addVariable("thisObj", thisObj); so.addVariable("vid","072307-pg1_title"); so.addVariable("playads", "yes"); so.addVariable("adserv",""); so.addVariable("autoStart", "no"); so.write("flashcontent0723071"); 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? Plachimada glows green with rice patties. These soggy fields form the backbone of the local economy and are sustained by a vital supply of ground and rainwater. In 2002, two years after Coca-Cola opened its factory, relative drought hit the area. Fields and wells reportedly started drying up, and the water that remained ???started tasting bitter,??? local farmer Shakti Vel tells me. Coke denies responsibility, but locals took to the streets.... washingtonpost.com Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:41:09 EDTSource: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/07/24/BL2007072401874.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
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