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 "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange.Water as Commodity and Weapon: The Corporate Hijack of India's Water by P. Sainath, 12 April 2006.Coca-Cola in India accused of leaving farms parched and land poisoned by Paul Brown, 25 July 2003.Dying For A Diet Coke? by Chris Wheeler, 26 October 2007.
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 Coke sued over death squad claims from the BBC, 20 July 2001. Coca-Cola's 'toxic' India fertiliser from the BBC, 25 July 2003. Things get worse with Coke by Felicity Lawrence, 20 March 2004. “Bottled tap water withdrawn after cancer scare.” India Resource Center: Coca-Cola Campaign.Killer Coke. “We need your help to stop a gruesome cycle of murders, kidnappings and torture of SINALTRAINAL (National Union of Food Industry Workers) union leaders and organizers involved in daily life-and-death struggles at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.”
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McDonald's
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McSpotlight. “McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard.”
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Nike
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Shell
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Shell's Nuclear CrimesBoycott Shell with many linksParody Advertisement.
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Wal-Mart
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The fruits of poverty by George Monbiot, 16 March 2004. “The wealth of supermarkets is built on monopoly, exploitation and restriction of choice.”"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange.In the belly of the beast of Bentonville by Josh Gryniewicz, 08 September 2006. “Josh Gryniewicz tells what it’s like to work for Wal-Mart – and how workers pay for its “everyday low prices.””Wal-Mart Tightens the Squeeze on Workers by Josh Gryniewicz, 19 October 2006.
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 Wake-Up Wal Mart How Wal-Mart is remaking our world by Jim Hightower, 26 April 2002.Boycott Wal-MartWal-Mart watch WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. Website for the movie..
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Caterpillar
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The bulldozers that wreck Palestinian lives: Caterpillar’s weapon of destruction by Eric Ruder, 28 June 2002. Disney accused of 'evil bulldozer' slur from the BBC, 16 October 2003. “Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar has seen red over a new Disney film which it claims portrays its earthmovers as "evil".”"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange.
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Bechtel
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Bechtel vs. Bolivia from The Democracy Center. “The background on Bechtel's role in the Bolivian water takeover and its legal actions against Bolivia.”Anthrax for export by William Blum. “In 1994, a group of twenty-six veterans, suffering from what has come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome, filed a billion-dollar lawsuit in Houston against Fisher, Rhone-Poulenc, Bechtel Group, and Lummus Crest, as well as American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and six other firms, for helping Iraq to obtain or produce the compounds which the veterans blamed for their illnesses.” .Peace & The New Corporate Liberation Theology by Arundhati Roy, 04 November 2004. “Between 1990 and 2002 the Bechtel group has contributed $3.3 million to campaign funds, both Republican and Democrat. Since 1990 it has won more than 2000 government contracts worth more than 11 billion dollars. That's an incredible return on investment, wouldn't you say?” |
 Bechtel Vs. Bolivia - Time to Open Up Secret Trade Courts by Jim Shultz, 08 Nov 2002.
“Sometime in the next few weeks, behind closed doors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., panelists in a secret trade court will decide if the people of South America's poorest country will have to pay $25 million to one of the world's most wealthy corporations.”Iraq: Bechtel Wins $1.8bn Deal by Joshua Chaffin and Guy Dinmore, 7 January 2004. “Bechtel, the US construction company, was awarded a contract valued at up to $1.8bn on Tuesday to repair Iraq's electricity grids, roads, ports and other infrastructure damaged by the coalition invasion and years of neglect.”Bechtel Vs. Bolivia: The Bolivian Water Revolt.
A list of articles from The Democracy Center. Bechtel: Profiting from Destruction from Public Citizen. “Why the Corporate Invasion of Iraq Must be Stopped.”
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Sodexho
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The men making millions from refugees' misery by Martin Bright and Conal Walsh, 02 September 2001. “Dozens of asylum barons are making fortunes from Britain's refugee crisis, an Observer investigation can reveal. The transport, dispersal, housing and detention of people fleeing persecution has turned into a giant get-rich-quick scheme subsidised by the taxpayer.”
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Wackenhut In 2003 Wackenhut changed its name to The GEO Group Inc. |
 Beaten by Wackenhut by Jordan Smith, 05 July 2002. Free market in human misery by Greg Palast, 26 September 1999. “Wackenhut's private prisons in the US have been described as hell on Earth. So why would we [the UK] want them?” Anger Erupts at Conditions in For-Profit Indiana Prison by Nicole Colson, 11 May 2007.
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Lockheed Martin
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Corporate State/Revolving Door/Lockheed Martin.Weapons Industry/Main Players/Lockheed Martin.North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). “Founded in 1996 by Bruce Jackson together with Greg Craig, the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO (later renamed U.S. Committee on NATO) ceased to exist in 2003. After spearheading two phases of NATO expansion, this neoconservative policy group closed down. […] Until 2002 Bruce Jackson was planning and strategy vice president at Lockheed Martin, where he served as the advance man for global corporate development projects.”"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange.
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Lockheed's Flying Dud: The Self-Locking F-22 by Robert Bryce, 03 May 2006.
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Starbucks
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How to Make Work Safer with Direct Action: An IWW Story at Starbucks by Daniel Gross and Joe Tessone, 08 September 2006.
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