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Topia!: Society: Issues: Business (949)
See Also:  Students for Informed Career Decisions - Provides information sheets on the environmental and labor practices of corporations that recruit on college campuses - including Disney, which is embroiled in a labor controversy.
Military-Industrial Complex Revisited - Are certain corporate operations inextricably connected with what former U.S. President Eisenhower called "The Military-Industrial Complex?" (nearly half a century ago) Do Corporate Operations Prey? - Corporate Predators web site, article on "The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy." Robert A. G. Monks - This former corporate insider and former Maine-based U.S. Congressman has written several insightful looks at how corporations' operations may be inherently destructive to the environment, human beings, and our rights with ideas on improving the situation. RAFI: Rural Advancement Foundation - Canada based nonprofit, activist group's site. Their goals are conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity; socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI does not "pull its punches" on its white papers. Foreign Policy and Corporate Operations - Research paper on U.S. policy in Asian Pacific Econ Cooperative: Does (1) US promotes an economic model that downplays human rights and sustainable development. (2) U.S. policy has focused on enhancing U.S. corporate interests rather than addressing the social and ecological costs of the current economic crisis? Multinationals and Mother Earth - Do global capital flows inherently challenge the environment? White paper on corporate operations, as they effect the environment today. Corporate Predators - Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy. This book by by Mokhiber and Weissman details corporate operations that threaten human rights and relations. Corporate Culpability - C.M.V.Clarkson, Law Professor at University of Leicester has published numerous scholarly papers on corporate accountability. This is one of them. undesign - a plan for all seasons - Reflections on the wisdom of Tibor Kalman, social responsibility, and a designer's role in the digital age. Campaign to Ban Landmines - Human Rights Watch update (March, 1999) on the continued use of land mines encouraged by President Clinton and midwest defense firm. Multinational Monitor - Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, ENDespair Project - To Transform the "World of Work" by an informal, expanding coalition of citizens concerned about what's happening in the business world. Innovest - Environmental finance company that researches and rates companies based on their environmental performance or "eco-efficiency". Forced Labor, Heroin and Terror in Burma - Several major corporations are still doing business with Burma, despite the state's appalling human rights violations. The One and Only Anti-Music Industry Website - Analyzes, examines, and exposes what it calls "the tasteless and evil practices of the music industry". Students against Lethality - Subscription page of Students for Change, permits networking with other activists on businesses affecting Human Rights. McDonaldization of Society - A discussion of McDonaldization of American Society, emphasizing both its benefits and problems, and how to deal with it in daily life. CueJack - Free subversive software for the CueCat home barcode scanner, designed to dig up any dirt on the manufacturer/seller using the DC database and Google. Transparency International - International coalition against corruption in international business transactions and seeking increased government accountability. XAT Peaceful Revolution Network - A barter organization uses XAT units as an alternative to money to purchase goods and services. Writings on the history of money and a Journey guide. People of Faith Network - Presbyterian group which unites local congregations, to get corporations to simply disclose their practices instead of hiding them. People of Faith Network - Fights oppression of third world human beings by firms like Wal-Mart and Disney, simply asking for honest disclosure. Socially Responsible Investment Coalition - Aimed toward increasing corporate accountability through education and action alerts. Expose of The Bilderberg Club - "...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller Child Slave Labor News - Information on companies worldwide that are known to use sweatshop labor and child labor. Also some Good companies. Produced by Immaculata High School students. Adbusters: USA (TM) - Article on the hidden history of corporations in the US - how initial controls on abuse of power by corporations were steadily rolled back. Architects and Engineers for S R - Promotes socially responsible ethic in use of technology, work for the abolition of weapons of mass destruction, and campaign on specific environmental issues. UK site. Center for Global Ethics - Dialogue among representatives of all major religious groups plus global business code of ethics. Citiaction - Citizen campaign working to reassert citizen control over corporations like Citigroup and set the standards by which the global economy will operate. Includes how to get involved and research tools. Johannesburg Earth Summit 2002 - Group giving Green Oscars to dramatize the lack of progress by the world's governments at two Earth Summits in holding corporations accountable for their environmental and social behavior. Democracy Watch - An Ottawa-based non-profit, non-partisan citizen advocacy organization that focuses on democratic reform and government and corporate accountability in Canada.
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