Yay! Congratulations to the students at the University of Michigan and NYU! They successfully kicked Coca-Cola off their campus for human rights abuses in Colombia and pollution in India. Good for them! See the Businessweek story here. And the NPR story here. Other newspapers ran supportive editorials, like this one from the Minnesota Daily News.
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