www.gm-info.org.uk- Get active against GM food and crops! - Corporate Watch has launched a new website featuring interactive maps of where GMOs are being produced, handled or sold near YOU! Includes field tests, offices, storage, mills, ports and other facilities. Plus campaigning resources, links and contacts - all you need to get active against the biotech beast.
GE briefings:
• Control freaks - set of 3 briefings on companies importing GMOs, including Introduction, Cargill and ADM
• The industry strikes back -Functional foods: good for Monsanto's health. How biotech companies plan to win the GMO debate and succeed in selling GM foods in large quantities.
• Cash cows & bull markets?- the finance behind GM crops Cash cows and bull markets - a detailed guide on which banks and other financial institutions are propping up the industry.
For a printed briefing, send SAE for 39p to Corporate Watch, 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford. 0X4 1BG. stating which you would like, or e-mail us at: info@corporatewatch.org.
• Degrees of Involvement Out now! An in-depth
investigative report exposing the links between UK universities
and the oil industry, through subsidised research, training, and
channelling of graduates for recruitment. Now written, awaiting
publication. 80-100 pages.
• Crude Operators – an oil reader
A collection of papers on the oil industry, its impacts, and campaigning against the industry. PLUS news updates and analysis on oil industry developments, and on activism against Big Oil. (co-published with Platform). Spring 1999. 56 pages. £5
• Shell – 100 years too long
This special commemorative report on Shell marks its Centenary. It documents 100 years of environmental destruction, neglect of workers, abuse of human rights and manipulation of public opinion. October 1997. 14 pages. £1.50
• The oil and gas industry – a guide for UK activists
This provides a background on the UK off shore industry, including its impacts, political connections and public relations strategies. Importantly, it provides valuable information on where it is and how it works, designed to support campaigning activities against it. Winter 1997/98. 12 pages. £1.50
• Squaring up to the Square Mile
A beginner’s guide to the City of London, and how the finance sector works. It includes an explanation of securities, commodities and currencies, how they are all traded, the key institutions, the culture of the City, and the global importance of London, plus guidelines for researching a company's finance. (Co-written with London Reclaim the Streets). April 1999. 32 pages (A5). Free. Send 31p SAE.
• DIY guide: How to research companies
Become a corporate watcher! This new, updated version of our popular training guide on how to research companies breaks down the mystique surrounding research. It includes top tips on how to use the web, libraries, press searches, official sources, and overt and covert interview techniques. November 1999.. 12 pages. £1
Corporate Watch Publications and Magazine Back Issues are available to order from us. If you would like to order any of our publications, please use the Order form. Corporate Watch, 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford. 0X4 1BG. United Kingdom. Tel/Fax +44 (0)1865 791391mail@corporatewatch.org
