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UL Coke Boycott falls short

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Sunday April 17, 2005 20:03

by St.John

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Last Thursday the referendum on Boycotting Coke in the University of Limerick fell short.

The required quorum of 20% of the students, or 1,776 wasn't reached, with roughly 1,100 turning out. We also lost the vote, from 443 Yes votes to 659.
In the aftermath, this loss was put down to the fact that many of the biggest sports clubs in the University get up to €20,000 per annum from Coke or other products owned by the company. Unfortunately, they chose to put this ahead of the issues the human rights abuses in Colombia which served as the basis for the Boycott.
Nevertheless, we feel that raising the debate in the University at least got people thinking a bit, and brought the issue to the fore in the minds of the student body in arguably one of the more conservative campuses in the country. So, onwards and upwards, hopefully we can run the referendum again at a future date, and convince the students of the value of life and liberty over cash and cola :-)

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Comments (46 of 46)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	excellent	david	Mon Apr 18, 2005 00:41
2	OK Dave you lost me after "excellent"....	Ciaron	Mon Apr 18, 2005 01:06
3	Where did it all go wrong?	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 13:32
4	down but not out	sad ul student	Mon Apr 18, 2005 13:51
5	i concur	juan pablo (UL student)	Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:13
6	atypical	UCD Limerick	Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:16
7	......	juan pablo	Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:45
8	....	didnt have a vote	Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:57
9	dirty campaign	Sad ul student	Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:09
10	Clubs and Socs in UL	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:18
11	...	didnt have a vote	Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:25
12	Dirty Campaign!!!!	Major Fraser	Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:26
13	Reply to Major Fraser	sad ul student	Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:38
14	re Reply to Major Fraser	Major Fraser	Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:02
15	...	didnt have a vote	Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:05
16	Paid to campaign	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:21
17	reply to "didnt have a vote"	sad ul student	Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:29
18	reply to know 152	sad ul	Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:32
19	I suspect you are making people up!	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:01
20	know 152	sad ul	Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:04
21	you're silly	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:09
22	enough already	Major Fraser	Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:15
23	your'e silly	Sad UL	Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:15
24	We're all silly	know152	Mon Apr 18, 2005 19:12
25	Replies to a few comments...	St.John	Tue Apr 19, 2005 01:53
26	Conservative SU	Sad UL	Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:47
27	Why Referendum failed	Annoyed UL student	Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:58
28	reply to annoyed ul student	sad ul	Tue Apr 19, 2005 13:17
29	Just for a bit of light relief...	St.John	Tue Apr 19, 2005 17:58
30	gfjlvh	Annoyed UL student	Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:06
31	annoyed ul	sad ul	Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:13
32	another way is possible, just not your way	know152	Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:34
33	know 152	sad ul	Tue Apr 19, 2005 19:00
34	lies and damned lies.	joe	Wed Apr 20, 2005 14:23
35	reply to sad	john	Wed Apr 20, 2005 14:39
36	Perplexing	UCD Limerick	Wed Apr 20, 2005 16:46
37	Dear Perplexed	know152	Wed Apr 20, 2005 20:12
38	Okay.	UCD Limerick	Thu Apr 21, 2005 14:44
39	But it wasn't student representatives calling for the vote	know152	Thu Apr 21, 2005 15:13
40	Legally dubious?	St.John	Thu Apr 21, 2005 18:22
41	Taking a stand	know152	Fri Apr 22, 2005 19:26
42	You must be so proud!	know152	Wed Apr 27, 2005 19:30
43	To whoever is spamming this thread	1 of IMC	Mon May 02, 2005 03:24
44	Have irish people lost their concept of solidarity	Chris Bond	Sat May 14, 2005 20:24
45	When you're all quite done...	toneore	Sat May 14, 2005 21:40
46	yeah	Hack	Sun May 15, 2005 05:22

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