Book description
Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces,
even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US
presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product,
it has even been served in space.
From Istanbul to Mexico City, Mark travels the globe investigating
the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't
mention. Child labourers in the sugar cane fields of El Salvador.
Indian workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Colombian union leaders
falsely accused of terrorism and jailed alongside the paramilitaries
who want to kill them. And many more...
Provocative, funny and stirring, Belching Out the Devil
investigates the truth behind one of the planet's biggest brands.
Mark Thomas has worked as a comedian for over twenty years. His
activist, campaigning brand of comedy has been a thorn in the side of
many politicians and corporations. He is one of a limited number of
people to be awarded a UN Global Human Rights Defender Award and has
also been awarded a Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour amongst
other citations. His three-year campaign to stop the building of the
Ilisu damn in Turkey was ultimately successful and saved 78,000 Kurds
from being displaced.
