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Corporate Watch recently wrote to B&Q; concerning the supply of goods manufactured by companies that work out of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The open letter to B&Q; asking for clarification of whether the store will cease its supply of Keter Plastics products is reproduced here. |
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A leaked training manual showing how Serco teaches its staff to kick, punch and immobilise refugees held in detention centres in Australia confirms what many have long thought: the privatisation profiteer does not just tolerate its staff abusing refugees, it teaches them how to do it. |
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Last month Corporate Watch wrote to the Association of Illustrators and the London Transport Museum to ask them to reconsider their decision to take sponsorship from Serco for their “Secret London” illustration prize, in light of the company's “horrendous track record” and the “controversies and protests” surrounding its management of 'public' services including immigration prisons and healthcare services. |
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The organisers of the London Olympics have been happy to hand huge amounts of public money to multinational companies but are refusing to pay the musicians they are asking to perform at the Games, Corporate Watch can reveal. |
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Biomass is the latest energy source touted as a way to fight climate change while maintaining current levels of consumption. Ahead of a busy month for the companies looking to exploit it and groups campaigning against them, Corporate Watch looks at the biomass industry and the claims made for it. |
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Corporate Watch delves into the shady world of worker blacklists, with a brief summary of the progress of the legal challenges currently making their way through the courts. |
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Smash EDO, the campaign to shut down the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton, is planning three months of action, dubbed the 'Summer of Resistance' in May, June and July 2012. However, they are facing opposition from Tory council members. |
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On February 22 Anshel Pfeffer, writing about Corporate Watch's recent book Targeting Israeli Apartheid, claimed that “while the movement has managed to mobilize thousands of supporters around the world to send online entreaties to avoid Israel, the corporations and some of the more famous performers who are less exposed to Facebook campaigns, have been impervious.” We feel that this is a gross misjudgement of the BDS movement. |
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Its employees have been arrested, an internal review suggesting widespread fraud has been leaked and its major shareholder has been forced to resign as chairman. How could A4e possibly counter the prevailing view it is a corrupt shower? Simple: hire well-positioned lobbyists to ensure the government contracts it depends on keep on coming. |
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Corporate Watch is currently producing a new report entitled 'Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent'. This will be a collection of articles about the ways in which an ideology of 'democracy' is used to channel dissent into forms compatible and safe to capitalism, and how, when this is proved impossible, this ideology serves to legitimise state repression of unmanaged dissent.
We are currently looking for submissions on this topic, written in an engaging, non-academic style, which do not presume in-depth knowledge of the issues or theoretical context from the reader. |
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While in public they have been presenting themselves as the future of the NHS, a Corporate Watch investigation into the accounts and finances of five of the major private healthcare companies has found widespread use of tax havens,* including the British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg, Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands, and tax avoidance schemes Barclays or Vodafone accountants would be proud of. |
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Last June, the Department for International Development secretary Andrew Mitchell told parliament he intended to “reconfigure” the Commonwealth Development Corporation, the much-criticised investment company owned by the DFID, promising it would not make new investments “in or through harmful tax regimes”. So Corporate Watch was surprised to find its new Indian investment fund is domiciled in Mauritius, a popular 'offshore financial centre' for investors looking to avoid Indian tax and unwanted scrutiny! |
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Residents of the coastal village of Ferring in West Sussex are fighting plans by Asda to build a superstore in the area. Nigel Benians of the Ferring Conservation Group describes the “misleading” way the store has been introduced and why residents are campaigning against it. |
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