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(ASH)
Action on Smoking & Health
www.ash.org.uk Challenging the tobacco
multinationals.
Adbusters
www.adbusters.org
Journal of
the mental environment, specialise in subvertising.
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Animal
Feed .org.uk
www.animalfeed.org.uk - Campaign against GM Animal feed
industry. |
ASEED
Europe
www.aseed.net/ Action for Solidarity,
Equality, Environment & Development, working especially on European
government issues. |
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Baby
Milk Action
www.babymilkaction.org - Campaigns for safe baby-feeding; especially challenges
Nestle. |
Banana
Link
www.bananalink.org.uk
Banksy
www.banksy.co.uk/
Visual agitation and politically-minded grafiti from
Banksy |
Bankwatch
Network
www.bankwatch.org - Central/Eastern European NGO Network monitoring activities of
international financial institutions. |
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Bayer Hazard
www.bayerhazard.com - Spoof
web-site focusing on Bayer's GM-Crop interests
BeyondTV
www.beyondtv.org -
open publishing site for on-line video, audio, text news, positive
projects, underground events, and other interesting bods like us.
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Campaign
Against Arms Trade
www.caat.org.uk
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Christian
Aid
www.christian-aid.org.uk
Coalition
against Bayer Dangers
www.cbgnetwork.org
-German campaigning group focusing on the
activities of Bayer AG for nearly 25 years. Formerly known as
Bayerwatch.
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Communities
Against Toxics
www.communities-against-toxics.org.uk |
Compassion
in World Farming
www.ciwf.co.uk
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Corporate
Europe Observatory
www.corporateeurope.org - Corporate power in Europe. |
CorpWatch
www.corpwatch.org - Corporate Watch US. |
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Delta
www.oneworld.org/delta - Newsletter and info network focusing on Shell in Nigeria
DoSummat
htttp;//www.dosummat.org.uk - Manchester anti-corporate
direct action groupgroup
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Down
to Earth
www.gn.apc.org/dte/ - Campaign for ecological justice in
Indonesia. |
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Earth
First!
www.eco-action.org - Direct action
Endgame Research
Services (US)
www.endgame.org/
Corporate crimes and environmental destruction profiled |
Enough
www.enviroweb.org/enviro-issues/enough - Campaigns against consumerism |
Essential.org
www.essential.org - Anti-corporate website hosting many campaign
organisations including Multinational Monitor. |
ETC Group
www.etcgroup.org - Formerly known
as RAFI the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
(ETC group) is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable
advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To
this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of
technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses
international governance issues and corporate power.
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F.E.E.D
www.feed.ukf.net -
We are an independent, non-sectarian collective based in Bristol,
Fighting Exploitation, Elitism and Discrimination (F.E.E.D.). We are
involved in active protest, ranging from campaigning against
multinationals to the abolition of the monarchy. Our website is a
resource to increase awareness, uniting people in the global struggle
against capitalism. |
Forest
Action Network UK
www.fanweb.org/uk |
Free Range Activism
www.gn.apc.org/pmhp
Guides
to various campaigning resources, including lots of campaign-relevant
government legislation
Freedom to Care
www.ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Freedomtocare - Support for whistleblowers.
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Friends
of the Earth
www.foe.co.uk
Environmental campaign NGO, also check out FoE Factory-watch online
database at www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/industry_and_
pollution/factorywatch |
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Grassroots
Action on Food and Farming (GAFF)
http://www.gaff.org.uk
A new organisation linked to Corporate Watch helping to build a
grassroots network of farmers, farmers groups, environmentalists and
the public, to oppose the increasing corporate control of the food
system and the demise of the small and family farm in the UK.
Genetic Engineering Network
www.genticsaction.org.uk - Information for action on genetic
engineering in the UK |
GenetiX
Snowball
www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/gs/index.htm - For accountable protest against genetic engineering .
Genetix Snowball has ceased to exist as a campaigning/actions
organisation. However, a number of useful materials are still available
from their website.
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Genewatch
www.genewatch.org - A
policy research group evaluating genetic technologies from the
perspective of human and animal health and welfare together with
environmental protection.
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George
Monbiot
www.monbiot.com - lots of articles.
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GM
Info
www.gm-info.org.uk - Interactive maps of where GMOs are being produced,
handled or sold in the UK. Take action against the Biotech beast!
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Greenpeace
UK
www.greenpeace.org.uk |
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Human
Rights Watch
www.hrw.org |
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IndyMedia
www.indymedia.org -
Independent Media links
International
Rivers Network
www.irn.org - Halting destructive river development projects (eg
dams)
Infact
www.infact.org/helpstop.html
Tobacco industry campaign
Investor Research
& Responsibility Centre (US)
www.irrc.org/ |
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Labour
Behind the Label
www.labourbehindthelabel.org Campainging on
workers' rights issues in the clothing industry
London
Organic Guide
www.infolondon.ukf.net/organic
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Marine
Conservation Society
www.mcsuk.mcmail.com - Especially on the ecological
impact of the UK offshore industry.
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McLibel
Support Campaign
www.mcspotlight.org
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Minewatch
www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=index/index.html&b=register/04941.html - Supporting communities in the
South impacted by large-scale mining
Multinational Monitor
http://multinationalmonitor.org/
Excellant anti-corporate site famous for their '10 Worst Corporations'
lists
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NaTO
(Northern Arts Tactical Offensive)
www.nato.uk.net - a banner organisation, bringing
together artists working on a broad spectrum of cultural, social and
political issues. We are dedicated to the production of spontaneous,
independent and conscious public art.
Networking
Newsletter
www.networkingnewsletter.org.uk
News
Internationalist magazine
www.newint.org
Nike
Boycott
www.saigon.com/~nike
Detailing workers' rights abuses and more
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NoLogo
www.nologo.org Niomi Klein's web site
No Sweat
www.nosweat.org.uk/
Anti-sweatshop campaign
Norfolk Genetic Information Network
http://ngin.tripod.com - FAQs and guides on genetic engineering. Huge
archive of genetic engineering news
Nor Watch
www.fivh.no/norwatch/english/asp
- English Language pages of Nor Watch watching Norwegian corporations
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Oilwatch
Europe
www.aseed.net/oilwatch/oilwatch.htm |
OneWorld
www.oneworld.net
Includes over 500 organisations from around the world,
both North and South, focused on development, environment and human
rights |
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PARTiZANS
www.minesandcommunities.org/Aboutus/partizans.htm - Against RTZ.
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Peoples
Global Action
www.agp.org - Against "Free" Trade and the WTO.
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People
& Planet
www.peopleandplanet.org - Students campaigning for development, environment and
human rights.
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Pesticide
Action Network
www.pan-uk.org
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PLATFORM
www.platformlondon.org - promoting creative processes of democratic
engagement to advance social and ecological justice |
Primal
Seeds
www.primalseeds.org - A network engaging in protecting
biodiversity and creating local food security.
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Project
Underground
www.moles.org - Campaigning mining and
oil abuses in the South.
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PR
Watch
www.prwatch.org - on public relations. |
Public Citizen (US)
www.citizen.org
Campaining
on health, safety and democracy issues
Public Concern at Work
www.pcaw.demon.co.uk - Whistleblowers' support
hotline and network. |
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Rainforest
Action Network
www.ran.org |
Reclaim
The Streets
www.gn.apc.org/rts - Building alternatives to capitalism via direct action |
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Save India's Tigers
www.saveindiastigers.co.uk
Schnews
www.schnews.co.uk/
- weekly update of direct action stories in the UK.
Boycott Shell
http://www.essentialaction.org/shell/
Targetting th oil giant |
State
Watch
www.statewatch.org - Monitoring the state and civil liberties in the
European Union. |
Survival
International
www.survival.org.uk - For tribal peoples. |
Sustain
www.sustainweb.org - The alliance for better food and farming. |
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The
Land is Ours
www.oneworld.org/tlio - Land rights campaign network.
The
Truth
http://www.thetruth.com/
Flashy but informative US site about the evils of the tobacco industry.
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Transnational.org
www.transnationale.org/anglais/ -
reference articles on more than 40 essential topics, from GMO and baby
milk to offshore banking, the world trade organization, privatization
of education, retirement pension, human cloning and working conditions
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Taiwan Corporate Watch: the truth behind Taiwan's economic miracle
http://www.taiwancorpwatch.org/ |
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Ultimate
Holding Company
www.uhc-collective.org.uk -anti-corporate, ecological, anarchistic, political art
factory.
Uncaged
Campaigns
www.uncaged.co.uk - Anti-vivisection.
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URGENT
www.urgent.org.uk - Network of campaigns against unwanted housing
developments. |
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Anti-Wal-Marts
sites:
www.sprawl-busters.com and www.walmartsucks.com
WaterWatch
www.waterwatch.org.uk - Watching water regulators.
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Women’s
Environmental Network
www.wen.org.uk |
World
Development Movement
www.wdm.org.uk |
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| Alternative Media |
Adbusters
www.adbusters.org |
Corner
House
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/ |
Do
or Die
www.eco-action.org/dod/index.html - Ecological magazine
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The
Ecologist
www.theecologist.org - A monthly magazine that challenges the environmental,
social, political and economic model upon which our world is
structured. Order Sept / Oct 1998 issue: the Monsanto files.
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Ethical
Consumer
www.ethicalconsumer.org - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation
looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind
the brand names.
Greenpepper
http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper.htm
- The greenpepper is an environmental and social justice
magazine, focusing on direct action and alternative lifestyles.
Indy Media UK
www.uk.indymedia.org - Indymedia UK is a network of
individuals, independent and alternative media activists and
organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial
coverage of important social and political issues.
Media Lens
www.medialens.org
- Media Lens is aUK-based media-watch project, which offers
authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as
well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details nd
other resour
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New
Internationalist
www.newint.org |
News
Alternative
http://www.asia-stat.com/ |
Peace
News
www.gn.apc.org/peacenews/ |
Red
Pepper
www.redpepper.org.uk |
SchNEWS
www.schnews.org.uk |
Squall
www.squall.co.uk - No proprietors. No punches pulled! Radical quality
journalism!
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Subvertise.org
www.subvertise.org - An archive of 100s of subverts, political art, cartoons and
articles.
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Undercurrents
www.undercurrents.org - Alternative News and Video reports on environmental, animal
rights, peace and social justice issues.
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Z-Net
www.zmag.org
- US
Radical Super-Site |
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Solutions?
At
Corporate Watch, we’ve never been for pushing one particular vision of
how the world should be. But weíve often been criticised for not
saying
what we’d like to see in place of corporations. Here's a few contacts
which we think have useful ideas, and contribute to the debate:
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Catalyst Collective
Highbury farm, Redbrook, Monmouthshire, np25 4lx
01600 775414
catalyst@co-op.org
http://www.eco-action.org/catalyst - Help and advice in setting up cooperatives.
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Centre
for Alternative Technology
www.cat.org.uk |
Ecological
Design Association
www.ecodesign.co.uk |
Eco-Village
Network
www.ecovillages.org/uk/network/index.htm |
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FairTrade Foundation
www.fairtrade.org.uk
Federation of Small Businesses
www.fsb.org.uk
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Intermediate
Technology Development Group
www.oneworld.org/itdg |
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LetsLink
UK
www.letslinkuk.demon.co.uk - Support for local currencies.
MERCI
www.bridge-5.org - Manchester
Environmental Resource Centre Initiative
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National
Association of Farmers Markets
www.farmersmarkets.net |
New
Economics Foundation
www.neweconomics.org/gen/
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Permaculture
Association
www.permaculture.org.uk
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www.primalseeds.org
www.primalseeds.org - 'untangling ourselves from the monocult' |
Radical
Routes
www.radicalroutes.org.uk - Network of cooperatives. |
Soil
Association
www.soilassociation.org - Organic farming and horticulture |
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