I just love it when corporations try to stop people trying to correct social injustices by citing trademark infringments. Apparently stealing needed groundwater from the people of India isn't enough, now they have to go after the people trying to seek social justice.
Anyway in case you are wondering what I am talking about for a while now community activists
in India have been trying to protect their much needed ground water from coca-cola and other
factories that have been soaking it up despite water shortages.
And now Coke has gone a step further. This Sunday in the news (that would be the bbc news by the way, it would be UnAmerican to say anything anti-coke) was an article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4690703.stm) on how coca-cola threatened a photographer in India with legal action over a poster symbolizing how coke has taken much needed ground water from the people of India. In the words of Mr. Haksar "As a photographer, it is my take on the severe water shortage in the state and across India.
It is a fact and an irony that there is a shortage of drinking water while Coca-Cola is
available everywhere."
"The poster, in Madras, shows a line of water containers and a hand pump
with a Coca-Cola logo in the background"(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4690703.stm).
So when will the corporate big shots start carrying about the basic needs of other human
beings!