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2008 Benny and Path to Victory Award Nominees [10.12.08]
The Business Ethics Network introduced the annual BENNY Awards in 2005 to recognize outstanding corporate campaign victories. In 2007 we introduced our Path to Victory Award to recognize outstanding achievements in campaigns which advance them ... [Read More]
The Bear Stearns Conspiracy [08.18.08]
This is one scandal the National Enquirer has not reported. No babies with mystery fathers, no former vice presidential candidates cowering in a hotel basement to escape the paparazzi. [Read More]
CUC National Committee Members Attacked by Gunfire and Kidnapped: Biofuel Agro Businesses Violently Repress Communities [08.18.08]
Rights Action is extremely concerned for the safety of members of the National Committee of CUC (the Campesino Unity Committee), and for the safety of members of the Maya Keqchi communities of La Isla, Caserio el Mirador Semao, Corazon de Mais, and ... [Read More]
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council on tarsands [08.18.08]
NRDC speaks about the environmental consequences of extracting oil from tar sands. [Read More]
VICTORY!A Decade of Consumer Pressure Is Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market [08.13.08]
Monsanto announces its selling its posilac division that makes bovine growth hormone. St. Louis-based Monsanto announced today it is selling the division that produces bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST. [Read More]
Scottish Anglers Condemn Marine Harvest Debris [08.12.08]
An angling group is calling on the world’s biggest fish farming company to clean up its act and remove the debris that it left behind at a former fish farm in a Special Area of Conservation in Ardnamurchan. [Read More]
VX supply destruction completed at Indiana depot [08.12.08]
An Army contractor has finished three years of work on destroying a deadly nerve agent stored in western Indiana and is now moving ahead to dismantle the equipment built for the billion-dollar project, officials said Monday. [Read More]
No defense for this [08.11.08]
Federal officials arrested more than 300 illegal immigrant workers at the Michael Bianco Inc. factory, a waterfront plant that produced backpacks for the military. Inside, they found awful working conditions. [Read More]
VICTORY! International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal [08.11.08]
The Government of India has announced that it will take legal action on the civil and criminal liabilities of Union Carbide and Dow Chemical for the ongoing disaster in Bhopal, India. [Read More]
California lawmakers weigh chemical ban in baby items [08.10.08]
Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans. [Read More]
Verizon, 2 unions agree on new 3-year contact [08.10.08]
Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed Sunday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits. [Read More]
Good news from the Senate Appropriations Committee! NAIS and the school lunch program [08.09.08]
The Senate Appropriations Committee's report has been released, and it does not include the provision linking the School Lunch program to NAIS, or any other provision for mandatory NAIS, as far as we can tell! [Read More]
Doha Talks Breakdown; USDA on CRP [08.09.08]
Alan Beattie and Frances Williams reported yesterday at the Financial Times Online that, “The Doha round of global trade talks, now in its seventh year, broke up without agreement on Tuesday after nine days of tense negotiations. [Read More]
Report Outlines Junk Mail’s Climate Impacts [08.09.08]
‘Junk Mail Effect’ Equals Emissions of 9 Million Cars, 7 US States Combined; NASA Scientist and Gore Advisor Hansen urges support for Do Not Mail Registry [Read More]
Countrywide's Mozilo target of SEC probe: report [08.08.08]
The formal U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Countrywide Financial Corp concerns whether the mortgage lender's former chief executive, Angelo Mozilo, violated insider trading laws and whether the company's financial ... [Read More]
Coke paints Beijing red for Olympic Games [08.08.08]
China's capital is decked in red: Red billboards hang at bus stops; a red kiosk sits on a popular shopping street; at the Olympic Green, the nexus of next month's Olympics, a sprawling red building is under construction. [Read More]
Industrial Farm Animals Consume 17 Percent of Wild-Caught Fish [08.07.08]
Here's a guest post from Jennifer Jacquet of the Sea Around Us Project and the UBC Fisheries Centre in Vancouver, B.C. [Read More]
The Supermarket Revolution Moves Into Honduras [08.05.08]
· With food prices soaring and more people going hungry, many developing countries are trying to boost their food production. But it's not enough to grow more food; farmers also need better ways to sell it. Small farmer, meet Wal-Mart. [Read More]
In US, gas prices mean more riders, fewer buses [08.04.08]
High gas prices almost killed the lifeline to the city for a group of mountain commuters. [Read More]
Mexico To Lift Limits On Foreign Drug Makers [08.04.08]
The 17th annual International AIDS Conference has opened in Mexico City. Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, announced that he's lifting restrictions on foreign drug manufacturers to allow them to produce and sell generic anti-retrovirals in the ... [Read More]
Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization [08.02.08]
When Tesla Motors, a pioneer in electric-powered cars, set out to make a luxury roadster for the American market, it had the global supply chain in mind. Tesla planned to manufacture 1,000-pound battery packs in Thailand, ship them to Britain for ... [Read More]
Major Supermarkets Pull Unsustainable Seafood! [08.01.08]
Stop & Shop and Giant Food are owned by Amsterdam based Royal Ahold. In addition to removing these three seafood species from sale, Ahold has also committed to improving the information it gives its customers and supporting policy efforts to help ... [Read More]
Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win [08.01.08]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including ... [Read More]
Congress Announces Ban on Toxic Chemicals [07.31.08]
Congress is about to send President Bush legislation that will make toys safer for little tots and infants. In an agreement announced on July 28th, Congress will ban the use of six toxic chemicals, called phthalates, that are added to vinyl plastic ... [Read More]
Monsanto's Vultures are Closing In on the Food Crisis [07.31.08]
The vultures of corporate America are closing in on the carcass of cheap food. With corn selling at $5.86 a bushel (up from just $2.00 in 2005, and $4.28 just six months ago), the food price crisis has been somewhat of a windfall for farmers. But ... [Read More]


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