[Peace] Coca Cola is Out!

[Treva Ellison]

Dear supporter,

Coke is out!

After 2 years of intensive and sustained effort, the University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign is no longer an exclusive Coca-Cola campus! In a recent
decision, the State of Illinois has granted pouring rights to Pepsi, and the
Urbana Champaign campus has agreed to join this contract. Further, the
University has declared that certain retail shops on campus will be outside
the contract where drinks may be purchased from multiple vendors. For more
details, please read our press release available at
http://caccuc.blogspot.com/

The effort to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its egregious practices around
the world would not have succeeded without your continued and over-whelming
support. Every phone call, letter, petition and personal boycotts have
helped toward making this campus coke-free. Thank you!

While we welcome the non-renewal of the contract with Coca-Cola, we would
like to continue to highlight and mobilize around  corporatization of higher
education on our campus. We invite you to join us for a debriefing dialog on
August 29, 2007. Please look out for meeting updates on our website [
http://caccuc.blogspot.com/].

Please share this information widely. If you and/or your group would be
interested in participating in the afore-mentioned dialog, please rsvp by
August 20th to cokeactiongroup at riseup.net.

In Solidarity,
Coalition Against Coke Contracts (CACC)
http://caccuc.blogspot.com/

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