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What job does Vince Cable want? Chancellor? Foreign Secretary? Prime Minister? It's the question everyone has been asking at this year's Liberal Democrat conference. However, documents obtained by Corporate Watch and revealed in the Huffington Post UK today show that it's Dr. Cable’s current role as "contact Minister for Shell" that should be under question. |
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Outsourcing giant Serco says it can play a “critical role” in helping the NHS achieve the efficiency savings demanded by the government. But the privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has led to increased clinical problems and financial instability, an investigation by Corporate Watch has found. |
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One of Europe's biggest inner city regeneration projects, describes itself as an inclusive and sustainable development. But an investigation by Corporate Watch and The Independent has found people with a history of mental health problems are being excluded from the social housing built there while the developers and local council have also set quotas for the number of homeless and unemployed people. |
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For the last two weeks, demonstrations have been held outside SodaStream's Brighton store by boycott divestment and sanctions activists who have been telling the public about the reality of SodaStream's business. In response SodaStream has issued a bulletin, handed-out in front of their store during the protest last Saturday. Here is Corporate Watch's response. |
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The judge in a civil case in Haifa over the death of Rachel Corrie, a US Palestine solidarity activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes in 2003, has ruled that the Israeli state is not culpable. |
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Two anti-militarist activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass in Brighton today. The pair had glued themselves to the gates of the EDO MBM factory in the early hours of 27th April 2011 in protest at the sale of umbilical cables for use in Afghanistan and also to the Israeli military.
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As chaos and confusion dominate the transition to the new G4S asylum accommodation contracts in Yorkshire and the Humber, John Grayson from the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) explains how the new delivery model works (or doesn't), drawing on recent cases from the region. |
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The International Counter Olympics Network (ICON) was established the day before the Games began in London. This article is based on testimonies by members of anti Olympics groups in cities in different parts of the world, and hopes to contribute to a discussion about how activists can move beyond campaigns against individual sponsors and best enact international solidarity with people struggling against the corporate Games in Sochi, Rio and beyond. |
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Members of the group Calais Migrant Solidarity tell Corporate Watch about how the repression of migrants in Calais increased as a direct result of the London Olympics, how corporations have benefited from this and how Olympics sponsors are causing further problems in France. Calais Migrant Solidarity is part of the No Borders network and works with migrants in Calais to gather evidence of police violence and harassment of migrants and to strengthen resistance to the border regime. |
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Corporate Watch's Beth Lawrence interviews Mike Wells from East London about security, surveillance, activism and repression around the London Olympics. Mike is a photographer, reporter and filmmaker working with Games Monitor. He was arrested in June 2012 after an incident on Leyton Marshes, the site of a contentious Olympic construction project. He was later released on bail, with bail conditions stating he should not go within a certain distance of a certain Olympic venue. |
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In the first article of our Corporate Games series, Ian Blunt explains how legislation and 'democratic' processes were adapted to enable London to fit into the IOC's global game and how the city’s history of questionable planning made it an ideal location for the Olympics. |
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Ian Blunt and Beth Lawrence outline some key events in the history of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and explain how it operates as a global brand and generates and uses its funds. |
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Richard Solly, co-ordinator of the London Mining Network, describes the Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign, which aims to expose the unethical and unsustainable practices of some of the companies sponsoring the Olympics: BP, Dow Chemical and Rio Tinto. |
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Tom Antebi from the Ecologist and the Counter Olympics Network outlines the history of the green spaces and ecology in the five Olympic boroughs, investigates the environmental impacts of the Games in East London and looks at how the Games have a history of 'greenwash'. |
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