Coca-Cola: Classic Union Buster

Coca-Cola: Classic Union Buster

In this print edition...

• Coca-Cola: Classic Union Buster, by Joel Wendland
• The Trouble with Slobodan Milosevic, by Goran Marcovic
• The Broken Back of Counterfeit Liberalism, by Karin S. Coddon
• To the Barricades: Youth Rock France with Revolt, by Rémy Herrera
• Current Letters (updated 6-26-06)
• Current Poetry

The "Coke side of life" is not paradise for thousands of Coke workers or the many communities forced to give up land and water resources to the multinational giant.

Who was Slobodan Milosevic and what did he stand for? Milosevic began his political rise in 1984, when he was elected president of the City Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in Belgrade.

Months after the event, an event that I concede is the quintessence of triviality, I am still pissed. I’m pissed that the Academy Awards snubbed Brokeback Mountain in favor of the “surprise” choice of Crash, a film described by Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan as a “feel-good movie about racism.”

To use a US baseball methaphor, the French right-wing government has three strikes against it. First, the “no” vote rejecting the European Constitution in May 2005; second, the uprising in the working-class public housing projects from October to November 2005, and now a third moment: the mobilization against youth job insecurity.