Anti coke seminar

So there was this anti coke seminar organized in our college. Struck me as a bit strange - seemed like Pepsi had paid the college to hold the seminar, but Coke is pretty friendly with SIES, sponsored T-Shirts for the college fest - Visions, and has even paid the canteen to advertise for us in the form of banners. Although the said banner is covered with a chalkboard menu at the canteen, and although the Visions t-shirt simply had 'Vision' printed on it, which led everyone to come up with clever abuses for the coke logo and decorate their shirts with the same, but that's another and in fact, already told story.
The point being that SIES and Coke get along pretty well so it was strange to have an anti Coke seminar organized in the premises. Found out that the culprit was one Gala Mam (who used to organize Visions till this year). Anyway, a friend and I had plans to storm into the seminar and create a riot by wearing (probably the Visions) Coke t-shirts, though we had no idea from where we would procure them, along with coke bottles, and start screaming, 'down with Pepsi' or so.
We didn’t. Unfortunately, one of the organizers came to know about our devious plans, and changed the chalkboard message announcing the seminar to an anti-cola seminar. We entered the seminar anyway, though now that there was no room for mischief, we had absolutely no intentions of doing so. Our only aim was to find out what the fuss was and scoot our asses away. Found out that there wasn't much fuss after all.




This was around forty minutes into the stupid thing.

They were screening a stupid anti-cola (mostly anti-coke though) film.

The three people in the picture, are

1) A student at the extreme right, who looked as if she had been put there on a dare
2) The person who made the film, some Magsasay award winner and social worker dude. Long haired kurta clad chap. As such people are wont.
3) Almost to the extreme left is the prof, Gala mam.

To be perfectly fair, around an hour into the seminar, probably because of various machinations of threat, violence and blackmail, a fair few students came into the assembly hall. Many started chatting amongst themselves, listening to music and generally behaving as if they were in any old lecture, and the movie progressed...

Meanwhile this chick (the one who was informed about our devious plans in the misplaced flirtations of my friend) handed out fliers titled "The unethical practices of coke and Pepsi in India"

Same old ballyhoo. Depleting water supply. Dubious reports of foreign objects and pesticide. Sludge from plants contaminating the environment. Bribes to local authorities to have their way (the problem does not seem to be the people accepting the bribes though.)
Here is a high res pic of the flier.

Warning: When I mean high res, I mean high res. Formatted in photoshop for web suitability (else it would be a download of about a meg and a half)



(Click to see in detail)

Not taking sides - don't want to. Enjoy the occasional coke. Don't want farmers to die. Coke won't be banned. Occasional farmer WILL die.