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Campaign launched to get British-American Tobacco (BAT) out of Burma
The Burma Campaign UK has launched a worldwide campaign to get BAT to close its factory in Burma, where it runs a joint venture with the Burmese military regime. Workers are paid as little as 23p a day. BAT’s deputy chair Kenneth Clarke, former Tory chancellor, has embarrassed the company by writing to a constituent that ‘I sometimes feel uncomfortable about investment in that country’. Though apparently not about working for a company peddling cancer.
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pressreleases.html

Protest over plan for nuclear dump in Snowdonia
There was something of a flourish about the way the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station was unveiled in Snowdonia 43 years ago. Yesterday, the full environmental legacy of its creation became clear at a public inquiry. It was told how, 10 years after the station became defunct, the Snowdonia National Park must house a nuclear dump the size of two football pitches to accommodate its radioactive remains.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=351587

PFI schools falling down
The schools minister has been called to intervene after a BBC File on Four investigation uncovered allegations of poor workmanship at 20 West Yorkshire schools being refurbished by contractor Jarvis under the government's Private Finance Initiative.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2448425.stm

African consumer groups discuss biotech and food security
Consumers International is organising a ocnference in Zambia next week to look at the implications of biotechnology for food security in the light of the ongoing controversy over Zambia’s refusal to accept GM food aid from the US.
http://www.consumersinternational.org/News/display.asp?id=169®ionid=135&tag=X&type=news&langid=1

The Plan Puebla Panama in a nutshell
The Plan Puebla Panama is a massive infrastructure project aimed at opening up Central America to further plunder by US corporations (sorry, ‘economic development’). This guide, by Mexican campaigners CIEPAC, gives a brief introduction to its backers and effects.
http://www.ciepac.org/bulletins/ingles/ing312.htm

COP 8 - another cop-out
Friends of the Earth report on the official summit outcomes
http://www.foei.org/media/2002/1021.html
CorpWatch India on the alternative Climate Justice Summit, and Indians views of the official event :
http://www.corpwatch.org/campaigns/PCD.jsp?articleid=4728

Greenwash award for General Motors ad
CorpWatch US has bestowed one of its (un)coveted ‘Greenwash Awards’ on car manufacturer General Motors (GM) following a horrendously stupid ad for its latest SUV - take a look.
http://www.corpwatch.org/campaigns/PCD.jsp?articleid=4768