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Topia!: Society: Issues: Business: Allegedly Unethical Firms (535)
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Huntingdon Life Science Protest - Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing. International Paper Hall of Shame - OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site. The Gap - by Old Navy.Org - Articles and commentary regarding The GAP Store's alleged employment practices and activities affecting the environment. Chevron's Dirty Hands - "Chevron... has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil rigs." By Danny Kennedy and Victor Menotti. [San Francisco Bay Guardian] Deadson & Wretches Symphony of Tar - Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver every summer. Staples Destroys Forests - Through paper and furniture sales, Forest Networking paper argues that this firm destroys old rain forests. Six Firms Added to Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit - Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands. Critical Shareholders Organization - English version of German activist site that publishes information about firms they've found that violate human rights or basic environmental practices. Ten Worst Corporations of 2000 - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman return with their annual list of the worst corporate citizens of the last 12 months. Mother Jones On-Line. Eye on Sodexho - An independent source of information about the world's largest food service company. Tobacco from Spain - A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet (particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites. Home Depot Sucks - Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites. Sucks500.com - Online forums for criticisms of U.S. corporations, institutions, celebrities, and other topics. GapSucks.org - Features news on boycott of the Fisher Family, GAP, Old Navy, and Banana Republic. Murderous U.S. Judges - Alleges that AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and US Federal Judge James M. Ideman conspired to murder filmmaker Gyorgy Fodor. Sign a petition to President Bush. Place a bet to win a bribe. [Note: Some disturbing photos.] New York City Transit - Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York. Advertising to Kids - Advertising Limbo - Kid Targeted Advertising with egregious examples, site by New Dream, nonprofit on money matters. Apparel Industry Partnership Fact Sheet - US lawmakers say how to end sweatshop practices, but instead encourage firms to NOT disclose where their products are made. Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents - Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute. Sony Anti Environmental Efforts - A leaked document shows Sony Corp. has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting the pressure to reduce toxic waste from electronic manufacturing. ACORN is Fighting Household's Predatory Lending - Campaign by Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now against by Household Finance and Beneficial for aggressively and deceptively targeting low-income communities with overpriced and abusive mortgages. Gap, Wal-Mart, Others and Sweatshops - Corporate Watch examines charges that large U.S. clothing retailers use slave or sweatshop labor to make extra money for themselves. False Advertising by The Bosley Medical Institute - 10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site. Citygobo - Citygobo pretends to be about club culture, but it is a promotional site for the cigarette multi-national British American Tobacco. IdeaLab Shareholder Lawsuit Information - links to PDFs of the lawsuit filed in an L.A. Superior Court and articles in the press covering said lawsuit General Dynamics and TRW - Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits. The China Lobby's Campaign for Two-Way Trade with China - Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor] The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow - "AOL, the internet service provider, paid a $3.5m penalty to the securities and exchange commission, the chief US financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case." By Nils Pratley. [Guardian] Hot Stocks: GM Drops on Rumors - "Trading of General Motors shares was briefly halted on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, and fell after trade resumed amid unconfirmed market rumors of accounting irregularities at the world's largest automaker." [CNN/Money] Multinational Monitor - Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. The Citigroup Watch - News and commentary critical of the practices of the major banking and insurance group. Pepsi Pulls Rank At Oregon High School - "West Salem High cheerleader Andrea Boyes ... hit upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports game, with label bearing her school logo. But her plan ran into trouble when soft drink giant Pepsi got wind of it." News and reader comments. [Plastic] Dow Jones - Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy. Burson-Marsteller - Collection of third-party information about the public relations firm whose clients include Dow Corning, Phillip Morris, and Monsanto. Baker Book House - Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly. EndPredatoryLending.org - Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it. State Farm Sucks - Links to protest, news, and consumer educational sites about the USA mutual, bank, insurance, and annuities conglomerate. Sustainable Energy & Economy: Report on Chevron - Alleges human rights abuses and complicity in killing Nigerian civilians, calling on World Bank to discriminate in its investments. Capital One Credit Card Class Action - Lieff Cabraser filed suit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class against Capital One alleging violations of the Truth in Lending Act, as well as a variety of unfair and misleading business practices. Fair Trade Coffee Campaign Against Second Cup - A national campaign, led by Caféjustice, aimed at pressuring Canada's largest specialty coffee retailer Second Cup to address the coffee crisis by offering its customers Fair Trade coffee. Xamplify Sucks - Find a critical overview and executive profiles of the Berkeley-based technology start-up backed by wealthy businessmen, renowned professors and progressive journalists on this parody site. Truth About Sodexho - Updates and information on Sodexho, a business that uses foreign labor in sweatshops to process meat and wheat products sold in school cafeterias nationwide. Reliance Exposing - Information about a petroleum industry scam in India. Includes press clippings and correspondence with government departments. Polarwearz Inquiry - Inquiry about credential claims made by Polarwearz, and Dr. B.B. Butler and Norma Higgins, both Polarwearz Wellness Institutes and Knowledge Works International. UNUM Provident Crime - Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident. Virgin Air Crew Lies - Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants. EvilSprint.org - Increasing awareness of Sprint's alleged criminal actions, anti-labor practices, fraudelent consumer services, and generally unethical activities within the Sprint PCS, Sprint Long Distance, and Sprint network services groups. The Fresh Market Employee Message Board - Message Board containing comments from employees who work at The Fresh Market chain of Grocery Stores located in the southeastern U.S. Wells Fargo Bank: The Worst Bank in the World - Detailed account of systemic problems with Wells Fargo. Afternic Sucks - Consumer complaints about poor customer service and business practices. Topsites LLC - An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details. Made in China - National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses. Liz Claiborne: Sweatshop Production in El Salvador - Archived documentation and links by the National Labor Committee about abusive factories that produce Liz Claiborne clothing.
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