DISPATCHES: COCA-COLA
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Coca-Cola is one of the most iconic brands of both the 20th and 21st centuries, promoting itself as the drink of freedom, choice and US patriotism.
But behind this carefully crafted image exists a company accused of environmental damage, human rights violations and questionable business practices.
Political activist and journalist Mark Thomas travels to South America, India and the US to investigate the way in which Coca-Cola and its suppliers operate and the extent to which they upholds moral and ethical obligations.
Did you know Coke supported the 1936 Berlin Olympics? While Britain battled Germany at the front lines, Coca-Cola did business with the Nazis.
And when the Germans could no longer obtain the sugar syrop needed to make Coke, a new drink was invented for the Nazi regime - Fanta!
Did you know that Coca-Cola hired blacks only in labor positions? Did you know that Dr. Martin Luther King called for a boycott of Coca-Cola in the speech he gave the night before he died?