Magazine Issue 11 Summer 2000


CAMPAIGN CONTACTS

(please let us know if anything needs updating) Telephone numbers are as if calling from the UK. Fax numbers are not included below.

Action on Smoking & Health (ASH), Challenging the tobacco multinationals. 102 Clifton St. London EC2A 4HW; 020 77395902 action.smoking.health@dial.pipex.com; www.ash.org.uk -
Armswatch, c/o PO Box 2679, Brighton, BN2 2EF - Directory of UK weapons manufacturers
ASEED Europe, PO Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands; 0031 20 668 2236; aseedeur@antenna.nl; www.antenna.nl/aseed/ - Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment & Development, working especially on European government issues
Baby Milk Action, 23 St. Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AX; 01223 464 420; babymilkacti@gn.apc.org; www.gn.apc.org/babymilk - Campaigns for safe baby-feeding; especially challenges Nestle
Banana Link, 38-40 Exchange Street, Norwich NR2 1AX; 01603 765 670; blink@gn.apc.org; www.bananalink.rg.uk
Campaign Against Arms Trade, 11 Goodwin Street, Finsbury Park, London N4 3HQ; 020 7281 0297; caat@caat.demon.org; www.caat.demon.co.uk
CAGE c/o PO Box 68, Oxford OX3 1RH; prison@narchy.fsnet.co.uk - www.veggies.org.uk/cage -network supporting resistance to prisons expansion
Carbusters, 44 Rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon, France. Carbuster@wanadoo.fr – www.antenna.nl/eyfa/cb Anti-car culture resource centre and magazine
Chiapas Link, Box 79, 82 Colston Street, Bristol. chiapaslink@yahoo.com
Christian Aid, PO Box 100, London SE1 7RT; 020 7620 4444; info@christian-aid.org; www.christian-aid.org.uk
Climate Action Network UK, 31 Pitfield Street, London N1 6HB, 020 7251 9199, canuk@gn.apc.org, www.climatenetwork.org
Communities Against Toxics, PO Box 29, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH66 3TX; 0151 339 5473; ralph@ tcpublications.freeserve.co.uk
Compassion in World Farming, Charles House, 5a Charles Street, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3EH; 01730 264 208; compassion@ciwf.co.uk; www.ciwf.co.uk
Consumers’ Association, 2 Marylebone Road, London NW1 4DF; 020 7830 6000.
Corporate Europe Observatory, Paulnus, Potterstraat 20 1071 DA Amsterdam, Netherlands; 0031-20-612-7023 ceo@xs4all.nl www.xs4all.nl/~ceo -Info on corporate power in Europe
Delta, Box Z, 13 Biddulph St. Leicester, LE2 1BH; 0116 210 9652; lynx@gn.apc.org; www.oneworld.org/delta - info network focusing on Shell in Nigeria
Down to Earth, 59 Athenlay Rd, London SE15 3EN; dte@gn.apc.org; 01508 471 413 - campaign for ecological justice in Indonesia
Earth First!, c/o Action Update, PO Box ITA, Newcastle -upon-Tyne; 0797 479 1841 actionupdate@gn.apc.org; www.k2net.co.uk/ef/ - direct action
Ecumenical Council on Corporate Responsibility, PO Box 4317, Bishops Stortford CM22 7GZ; 01279 718 274 – especially shareholder campaigns
Enough, c/o One World Centre, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS; 0161 226 6668; thats.enough@good.co.uk; www.enviroweb.org/enviroissues/enough - Campaigns against consumerism
Forest Action Network UK / Reforest the Earth, 42-46 Bethel Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1NR; 01603 611 953; fanuk@envirolink.org; www.fanweb.org/uk
Freedom to Care, PO Box 125, West Molesey, Surrey KT8 1YE; 020 8224 1022; info@freedomtocare.org; www.freedomtocare.org - Support for whistleblowers
Friends of the Earth, 26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ; 020 7490 1555; info@foe.co.uk; www.foe.co.uk
Gaia Foundation, 18 Well Walk, London NW3 1LD; 020 7435 5000 – Campaigning against biopiracy and patents on life
Genetic Engineering Network, PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY; 020 7690 0626; genetics@gn.apc.org; www.genetics-action.org
Genetics Forum, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF; 020 7837 9229; geneticsforum@gn.apc.org; www.geneticsforum.org.uk - policy development, campaigns and publications on genetic engineering
Green Party, 1a Waterlow Road, London, N19 5NJ. 020 7272 4474 www.greenparty.org.uk – office@greenparty.org.uk;
Greenpeace UK, Canonbury Villas, Islington, London N1 2PN; 020 7865 8100; www.greenpeace.org
Green World, 49 York Road, Aldershot, Hants, GU11 3JQ; 01252 830506 Greenworld@binternet.com Magazine of the Green Party.
Human Rights Watch, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, 020 7713 1995
International Rivers Network, 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA; 001 510 848 1155; irn@irn.org; www.irn.org – Halting destructive river development projects,eg, dams
The Land is Ours, 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford OX4 1BG; 01865 722 016; office@tlio.demon.co.uk; www.oneworld.org/tlio/ - Land rights campaign network
Liverpool Catholic Worker, I Horne St, Liverpool L6 5EH; 0151 264 8741; lcw@rapid.co.uk - Against BAe Warton
Low Level Radiation Campaign, Ammondale, Spa Road, Llandrinod Wells, Powys, LD1 5EY; 01597 824 771; bramhall@llrc.org; www.llrc.org – campaigns and publishes Radioactive Times
Marine Conservation Society, 9 Gloucester Road, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5BU, 01989 566 017, www.mcsuk.org –includes work on the ecological impact of the UK offshore industry
McLibel Support Campaign, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX; 020 7713 1269; dbriars@world.std.com; www.mcspotlight.org
Minewatch, Methodist Clubland, 54 Camberwell Road, London SE5 0EN; 020 7277 4852; minewatch@gn.apc.org – Supporting communities in the South impacted by large-scale mining
National Pure Water Association, 12 Dennigton Lane, Crigglestone, Wakefield, WF4 3ET
No Opencast, c/o Miners’ Office, 2 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2LS; 020 7603 1831
Oilwatch Europe, PO Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands; 00 31 20 668 22 36; oilwatch@aseed.antenna.nl; http://antenna.nl/aseed/oilwatch.index.htm
OTDOGS - Opposition to Destruction of Green Spaces, c/o John Beasley, 6 Everthorpe Road, London SE15 4DA; 020 8693 9412 - Especially against supermarket developments
PARTiZANS, 41a Thornhill Square, London N1 1BE; 020 7700 6189; partizans@gn.apc.org - Against Rio Tinto
People & Planet, 51 Union St, Oxford OX4 1JP; 01865 245 678; people@peopleandplanet.org; www.peopleandplanet.org - students campaigning for development, environment and human rights
Platform, 7 Horselydown Lane, London; 020 7403 3738; platform@gn.apc.org Redefining art as a campaign tool, especially against oil industry
Project Underground, 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA; project_underground@moles.org www.moles.org – against mining and oil abuses in the South
Public Concern at Work, Suite 306, 16 Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ; 020 7404 6609; whistle@pcaw.demon.co.uk; www.pcaw.demon.co.uk - Whistleblowers' support hotline and network
Rainforest Action Network, 221 Pine Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94104; 00 1 415 398 4404; rags@ran.org, www.ran.org
Reclaim The Streets, PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY; 020 7281 4621; rts@gn.apc.org; www.gn.apc.org/rts
Survival International - For tribal peoples. 11-15 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QL; 020 7242 1441; info@survival-international.org; www.survival-international.org.
Sustain (formerly SAFE Alliance), 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF; 020 7837 1228; sustain@sustainweb.org; www.sustainweb.org- Sustainable agriculture, food & environment
Uncaged Campaigns, 14 Ridgeway Road, Sheffield, S12 2SS; 0114 253 0020; uncaged. anti-viv@dial.pipex.com; www.uncaged.co.uk -
URGENT, Box HN, 16b Cherwell St, Oxford, OX4 1BG; 01865 794 800; info@urgent.org.uk www.urgent.org.uk – Network of campaigns against unwanted housing developments
War On Want, Fenner Brockway House, 37-39 Great Guildford St., London SE1 0ES; 020 7620 1111; www.waronwant.org – Anti-poverty campaign
WaterWatch, c/o Pete Bowler, 259 South St, Rotherham S61 2NW; 01709 558 561; www.waterwatch.org.uk - watching water regulators
Working Group on Landmines, 601 Holloway Rd, London N19 4DJ; 020 7281 8005
Women’s Environmental Network, 87 Worship Street, London EC2A 2BE; 020 7481 9004; e-mail: wenuk@gn.apc.org; www.gn.apc.org/wen
World Development Movement, 25 Beehive Place, London SW9 7QR; 020 7737 6215; wdm@wdm.org.uk; www.wdm.org
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 ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
RECOMMENDED:

Adbusters, The Media Foundation, 1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7, Canada; 001 604 736 9401; adbusters@adbusters.org; www.adbusters.org
Corner House, PO Box 3137, Station Rd, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1YJ; 01258 473 795; cornerhouse@gn.apc.org
Do or Die, c/o Prior House, 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton BN2 2GY
The Ecologist, Subscriptions UK – c/o Cissbury House, Furze View, Five Oaks Road, Slinfold, West Sussex RH13 7RH; 01403 786 726; sgc@mag-subs.demon.co.uk. Editorial – Unit 18, Chelsea Wharf, 15 Lots Rd, London SW10 0QJ; 020 7351 3578; ecologist@gn.apc.org
Ethical Consumer, Unit 21, Old Birley St, Manchester M15 5RF; 0161 226 2929; ethicon@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
GreenLine, PO Box 5, Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 0YT; 0870 733 4970; greenline@clara.net
New Internationalist, Subscriptions UK – c/o Cissbury House, Furze View, Five Oaks Road, Slinfold, West Sussex RH13 7RH; 01403 786 726; Tower House, Lathkill St, Market Harborough LE16 9EF; 01858 439 616. Editorial – 55 Rectory Road, Oxford OX4 1BW; 01865 728 181; ni@newint.org; www.oneworld.org/ni/
Peace News, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY; 020 7278 3344; peacenews@gn.apc.org
Red Pepper, 1b Waterloo Rd, London N19 5NJ; 020 7281 7024; redpepper@online.rednet.co.uk; www.redpepper.org.uk
SchNEWS, c/o On the Fiddle, PO Box 2600, Brighton BN2 2DX; 01273 685 913; www.schnews.org.uk schnews@brighton.co.uk;
Subvertise! C/O Box E, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford OX41RQ. www.subvertise.org
Undercurrents, 16b Cherwell St, Oxford OX4 1BG; 01865 203 611; underc@gn.apc.org; www.undercurrents.org
West Country Activist, c/o PO Box 478, Taunton TA2 7YR; WCA@conk.com
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 SOLUTIONS?
At Corporate Watch, we’ve never pushed one particular vision of how the world should be. But we’ve 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 to contribute to the debate:

Catalyst Collective, PO Box 5, Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 0YT; 0870 733 4970; greenline@clara.net – help and advice in setting up cooperatives
Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Powys SY20 9AZ; 01654 702 400; help@catinfo.demon.co.uk; www.cat.org.uk
Citizen Organising Foundation, 3 Merchant Street, London E3 4LY; 020 8981 6200 – political empowerment of community, religious and other grassroots groups
Ecological Design Association, The British School, Slad Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1QW; 01453 765 575; galesnow@ecodesign.co.uk; www.ecodesign.co.uk

Eco-Village Network, CREATE Centre, Smeaton Rd, Bristol BS1 6XN; evnuk@gaia.org; www.ecovillages.org/uk/network/index.html
Ethical Junction www.ethical-junction.org - an ethical gateway to internet shopping
Intermediate Technology Development Group, The Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development, Bourton Hall, Bourton on Dunsmore, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 9Q7; 01788 661 100; itdg@itdg.org.uk; www.oneworld.org/itdg
LetsLink UK, 2 Kent St, Portsmouth, Hants PO1 3BS; 01705 730 639; www.letslinkuk.demon.co.uk – support for local currencies
New Economics Foundation, Vine Court, 112-116 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1JE; 020 7377 5696; neweconomics@gn.apc.org; www.sosig.ac.uk/neweconomics - Think-tank
Participatory Economics, Dr Daniele Turi, LFCS, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, The King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ; 0131 650 5151; dt@dcs.ed.ac.uk, www.parecon.org - type of economy proposed as a desirable alternative to contemporary capitalism.
Permaculture Association, PO Box 1, Buckfastleigh, Devon TQ11 0LH; 01654 711 655; pcbritain@gn.apc.org; www.sysmag.com/permaweb/
groups/pcbritain/index.html
Primal Seeds www.primalseeds.org
Radical Routes, c/o Cornerstone Resource Centre, 16 Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds LS7 3HB; 0113 262 9365; radical@globalnet.co.uk; http://home.clara.net/carrot/
radical/rrwelcome.htm – network of cooperatives
Soil Association, 86 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB; 0117 929 0661; soilassoc@gn.apc.org; www.earthfoods.co.uk - organic farming and horticulture