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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 11:22:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher@igc.apc.org>
Reply-To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu
To: Labor Research and Action Project <Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: New Web Site on Corporations
>/* Written 9:18 PM Dec 11, 1996 by trac in igc:women.news
>/* ---------- "New Corporate Watchdog Web Site!!!" -- */
>From: trac@igc.apc.org (Corporate Watch)
>
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>12/10/96
>
>CORPORATE WATCH WEB SITE ONLINE
>http://www.corpwatch.org
>
>A new watchdog website dedicated to monitoring the
>activities of transnational corporations went online
>today.
>
>Corporate Watch is designed to provide journalists,
>activists and policy makers around the world with up to
>date information and analysis on social, ecological and
>economic impacts of transnational corporations.
>
>"We intend to be an online clearinghouse for
>information on these companies," explained Corporate
>Watch editorial board member Antonio Diaz.
>
>The site will also serve as a mini-online magazine that
>runs features on related issues.
>
>"One of the reasons we've created Corporate Watch is to
>keep an eye on all those Fortune 500 companies that are
>jumping on the World Wide Web bandwagon," remarked the
>site's editorial coordinator, Joshua Karliner. "That's
>why our first Feature focuses on the corporatization of
>the Internet itself."
>
>Entitled "The Battle for the Future of the Internet,"
>the Feature includes commentary from Hot Wired
>executive producer Gary Wolf, media and technology
>critic Jerry Mander, NetAction director Audrie Krause,
>and Brazilian Internet activist Carlos Afonso.
>
>The Corporate Watch site also includes:
>
> *An eight part nuts and bolts manual on how to
>research transnational corporations.
>
> *Monthly "greenwash" awards given out by Corporate
>Watch and the environmental group Greenpeace to the
>most outrageous corporate "environmental"
>advertisements.
>
> *An Image Gallery, with a permanent environmental
>art collection and rotating monthly exhibits. This
>month's exhibit features images from Bhopal, India,
>commemorating the 12th Anniversary of the Union Carbide
>Gas Disaster.
>
> *In-depth analysis on corporate globalization,
>including reports from the Institute for Policy Studies
>in Washington DC and the New Delhi, India-based Public
>Interest Research Group.
>
> *News from various sources, including
>Multinational Monitor, the Malaysia-based Third World
>Network, Ecuador-based Oil Watch.
>
> *Direct Links to the Corporate Watch Affiliate
>Group--a collection of organizations which provide in
>depth research services.
>
> *Links to hundreds of other websites with analysis
>of or information produced by transnational
>corporations.
>
>
>Corporate Watch is a joint project of TRAC--the
>Transnational Resource and Action Center and IGC--the
>Institute for global communications.
>
>
>contact: Joshua Karliner
>tel: 415-561-6567
>fax: 415-561-6493
>email: trac@igc.org
>web: http://www.corpwatch.org
>
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>Internet Publishing * Networking * Training * Project
>Management
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Michael Eisenscher
Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program
University of Massachusetts-Boston
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