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- 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.
www.acorn.org/acorn10/household/household_main.htm
- Advertising to Kids - Advertising Limbo - Kid Targeted Advertising with egregious examples, site by New Dream, nonprofit on money matters.
www.newdream.org/award/kids/index.html
- AntiMotorola - Alleges Motorola discriminates against disabled military veterans and sold communication equipment to terrorists.
home.talkcity.com/libertyst/antimotorola
- 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.
www.users.cloud9.net/~pofn/AIPfactsheet.html
- British Aerospace - Committed to producing innovative, high-specification ways of killing people. Are you a feudal Middle Eastern dictatorship which tortures your political opponents? British Aerospace says: No problem! We just want your cash. [Site contains dark humour but it does have a very serious point.]
www.angloarabia.com
- 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]
www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Worldview
- Citygobo - Citygobo pretends to be about club culture, but it is a promotional site for the cigarette multi-national British American Tobacco.
www.citygobo2.com
- 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.
www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html
- 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.
www.kritischeaktionaere.de/Aktuelles/ENGLISH/english.html
- Deadson & Wretches Symphony of Tar - Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver every summer.
bensonandhedges.org
- Eye on Sodexho - An independent source of information about the world's largest food service company.
www.eyeonsodexho.org
- 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.
www.bosleymedicalviolations.com
- 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.
www.corpwatch.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/283.html
- GapSucks.org - Features news on boycott of the Fisher Family, GAP, Old Navy, and Banana Republic.
www.gapsucks.org
- 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.
multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html
- Greediest and Neediest Cases - Wal-Mart, Guess, Walt Disney, Nike, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Esprit USA / Esprit Asia, May Co, Victorias Secret/Limited are considered most egregious violators of human rights through their indiscriminate money making with slave labor and other human rights abuses in the Third World. Links to each firm.
www.nlcnet.org/Press/Newsclip/complst.htm
- Holiday Season of Conscience - National Labor Committee in U.S. placed this information for the 2001 Christmas season for shoppers. But the information and links remain timely for socially responsible investors who wish to dig below the surface of corporate reports in the retail clothing business.
www.nlcnet.org/rtk/index.htm
- 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.
www.homedepotsucks.com
- 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]
money.cnn.com/2002/06/27/markets/hotstox
- Huntingdon Life Science Protest - Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/shell/279
- 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
www.ilshareholders.com
- International Paper Hall of Shame - OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
members.aol.com/jpbry/index.html
- Liz Claiborne: Sweatshop Production in El Salvador - Extensive documentation and links by National Labor Committee in U.S. about abusive factories that produce Liz Claiborne clothing. Consumer alert information as well as investor ethical data.
www.nlcnet.org/liz/claiborne.htm
- Made in China - Extensive links to U.S. and multinational corporations which enable either human rights abuse in China or which effectively undermine fair treatment of workers there. National Labor Committee in U.S.
www.nlcnet.org/China/contents.htm
- 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.
multinationalmonitor.org
- 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.]
www.uspresident.net
- New York City Transit - Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
www.NewYorkCityTransit.com
- Price Waterhouse Coopers Discrimination - Umang Malhotra's detailed account of racial discrimination by Price Waterhouse UK and biased judgments by UK Tribunals.
www.eyeuniversal.com/pwc
- SEEN: Help Stop Environmental and Human Rights Abuses in the Niger Delta - The SEEN organization calls for action against Shell, Royal Dutch, Mobil for helping kill Nigerian civilians.
www.seen.org/Nigeria
- 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.
www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3638/9_41/63058111/p1/article.jhtml
- 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.
www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html
- Staples Destroys Forests - Through paper and furniture sales, Forest Networking paper argues that this firm destroys old rain forests.
forests.org/recent/2000/stdesfor.htm
- Stop Wendys Misrepresentations - Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell have misrepresented certain items as being vegetarian.
www.waste.org/~lanshark/vegan/fastfood.html
- Sucks500.com - Online forums for criticisms of U.S. corporations, institutions, celebrities, and other topics.
www.sucks500.com
- 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.
www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc33.html
- 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]
multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html
- The Citigroup Watch - News and commentary critical of the practices of the major banking and insurance group.
www.innercitypress.org/citi.html
- 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]
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html
- The Gap - by Old Navy.Org - Articles and commentary regarding The GAP Store's alleged employment practices and activities affecting the environment.
oldnavy.org
- 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.
www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk
- What is Predatory Lending? - Tell Citibank.org explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers.
www.tellcitibank.org/predatorylending.htm
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