11 April 2007

I Resign!

Dear Coca Cola Corp.,

It has come to my attention of late that you, yes you, have been violating basic human rights for a period of time now. You work to make sure that you have the best selling soft drink in the world, however you do this at the expense of mistreating your workers. Your employees in factories in Columbia, South America are not even allowed to formulate unions because you do not want to pay them what they deserve. Instead of listening to these unions, you independently higher a militia to try to subdue these workers and disband their unions; and if these workers do not heed the threat, they are attacked and sometimes killed. Reports, while they are few and far between, are not linked to you, however, it is becoming common knowledge that these workers do provide a service for you and thus are your responsibility. How much did it cost you to pay for these crimes, and how much did it pay for you not to get noticed? You are disgusting.

It makes me sick that you can just sit there and not even flinch. You probably sit in your boardrooms in your huge comfortable leather desk chairs and don’t even think about the innocent people that die under your terror, just because you want to save a couple of dimes here and there. You are inhuman and lack the consciousness that has made our human race great.

Is industry that important to you these days? You are already seeing the repercussions of your actions, as institutions all over the world start to rebel. College campuses across the United States are beginning to boycott your goods, nicknaming you Killer Coke. These campaigns to boycott are even superseding the United States. Your soft drinks are even worthless in India now, as that country works to eradicate you. The Indian parliament will not even allow your drinks to be sold on their premises. You are a poison and you are worthy of the name Killer Coke. Screw You Coca Cola. Maybe one day you will realize the damage you are doing just for an extra nickel and dime. It is time for you to realize that killing and murder are real things and that these people are just like you and me. Arrogant Pricks.

Yours not so Sincerely,

Kevin O'Connor

5 comments:

Caitlin Mallory said...

This is a great one... it also reminds me of Nike and a lot of other industries. Not to mention that coke is really bad for you and actually could be contributing to obesity- I guess that's another issue. But this will make a great essay!

Unknown said...

Sweet essay. great topic for your Hyper text

Fertelmeister said...

A lot of anger there, but it should make elaborating pretty easy. Great piece.

Jordan said...

good passion. your topic seems cut and dry, stick it to those corporations

Trenton Zane said...

I think this would be an interesting topic to write about. There are many negative things you could say about this company, and I'm sure there are statistics to back up your points.