|
|
Magazine Issue 1 - Winter 1996
|
||
| Editorial Features BAe Injunctions The four East Timor ploughshares women had enjoyed only a few minutes' freedom outside Liverpool CrownCourt when someone acting on behalf of BritishAerospace (BAe) served them with "Statements of Clalm for a permanent and draconian civil injuncion. The Ethically Challenged World of Sir John Banham Corporate Watch aims to appeal to all the family. So here's an imaginative childrens story about Sir John Banham, Chairman of Tarmac PLC. DBFO Road Schemes Faced with falling budgets and a less forgiving public, road building has become more and more difficult for our friends at EarthRape UK . However with their usual flair for cost-cutting, the powers that be have come up with an extraordinary new programme under the Private Finance Initiative. The DBFO roads scheme! Balfour Beatty DBFO/PFI - A30 Honiton- Exeter M25 road widening - A Company Profile. Costain - (Ecostain?) DBFO/PFI - Newbury Bypass, Cardiff Bay Barrage, - A Company Profile. Shareholder Action AGM REFORM AND THE DEATH OF SHAREHOLDER DEMOCRACY. In the 1 980s Britain was exposed to Mrs Thatcher's new vision of democracy - a shareholder democracy where ordinary people could buy shares, attend AGMs, and have their say in the running of the omnipresent corporations. In the 1 990s many concerned people have taken that vision and put it into practice. The results have perhaps not been quite what Thatcher intended. Rank Plans to devistate forest with Oasis Village Here Greg Muttitt looks at the Oasis Holiday Village which Rank, the developer, is presenting as a "sustainable development". Guide to Company Law Inspection & Copying of documents etc. The Mclibel Trial Making Mincemeat of McDonald's. It's "the best free entertainment in London", according to the Daily Telegraph. And it's already by far the longest civil case in British history. This is the 'McLibel' Trial, the mammoth legal battle between the $30 billion a year McDonald's Corporation and two campaigners (Helen Steel and Dave Morris). Babylonian Times Campaign Updates |