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Magazine Issue 5&6 - Winter 1997
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| Editorial Babylonian Times The Media The Media On Friday 14th of November 1997, at Portsmouth Crown Court, a legal judgement was made which seriously threatens the right to free speech in Britain. Mark Lynas reports BBC's Zircon Revisited It’s not every day you get a call from the top echelons of the BBC inviting you to attend a review of news values. I’m sure you can understand my cynicism... would my views really make a lot of difference... but I was getting my travel paid and a free meal so I took them up on the offer. Gandalf 1997 over seventy representatives of various radical publications met in Oxford, England for the first “Alternative Media Gathering.” The following statement was formulated in response to the “Gandalf Four” Trial currently taking place at Portsmouth Crown Court, involving editors from Green Anarchist (GA) magazine and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Support Group newsletter. The title “Gandalf” comes from GAandALF. Alternative Media Gathering '97 The first weekend in September saw radical journalists from all over the country descend on Oxford for the first Alternative Media Gathering. Organised by Corporate Watch, New Internationalist and Undercurrents, it provided an opportunity to share experiences and focus on campaigning collectively against the flow of the mainstream media and all they stand for. The Subvertising Standards Authority... Work Banana Corporations Bananas, as well as being Britain’s most popular fruit, are also the fourth most important staple crop in the world, critical for food security in many tropical countries... Casualisation at Polygram PolyGram is one of the three biggest music companies in the world. It operates in forty countries worldwide, and its list of artists reads like the attendance list at a royal funeral: Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, Sting, Celine Dion and of course the Spice Girls. It produced the biggest-selling single of all time, Candle in the Wind... Whistle Blowers Up till now, those who raise concerns about company malpractices have been faced not merely with the prospect of being labelled a trouble maker by colleagues but risked losing their job altogether... DIY Research Interview with an Infiltrator A Corporate Watcher who is interested in exposing the misdeeds of a company can spend hours in libraries poring over industry journals - or she can bite the bullet, land a job there and infiltrate. Corporate Actions Office Occupation.You know, we don’t just produce this magazine for fun. Corporate Watch is information for action. This page is the first in a series of suggestions on how to campaign against the destructive actions of corporations. Features What's wrong with Rank Rank wants to trash Lyminge Forest... Tarmac: Nightmare on Elstree Elstree in Southwest Hertfordshire lies 43 miles north of London. Behind the facade of the proposed ‘environmental bypass’ at Elstree lie the vested interests of road-builder Tarmac and developer Slough Estates. Alina Congreve of Hertfordshire Friends of the Earth reports with additional information by Andrew Wood. The Oil Industry BP - Fat Cats and Top Dogs BP, like all transnationals, is an economic structure, a machine, an inhuman entity. Yet the cogs in this machine are people, from the forecourt attendant, to the geologist, to the refinery manager, to the top executives. Here Phil Watts introduces us to some of the people at the top. DTI diagnosed |