This week in 2005, Sussex students voted to stop selling Coca-Cola in Students' Union outlets in protest at alleged human rights abuses in Latin America. 

The ban remains in place to this day, six years on. 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published 2 December 2005:

Down the drain: Students vote to ban Coke

Coca-Cola is to disappear from all Students' Union (USSU) shops and bars after students at the USSU Annual General Meeting decided to ditch the brand because of alleged abuses of human rights in Latin America.

 At the meeting, held on 24 November, more than 500 students also passed motions supporting Guantanamo detainee and Brighton resident Omar Deghayes and supporting University work on a campus-wide sustainable energy and procurement policy. 

However, it was the banning of Britain's favourite brown sticky liquid that aroused most interest. Coca-Cola is accused by Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal of involvement in false imprisonment, kidnapping and even assassination of staff in bottling factories...

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