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Corporate Watch Newsletter Issue 17: Jan/Feb 2004
Make
a date with the G8
The G8 (Group of Eight most industrialised nations)
Summit is coming to Britain in the Summer of 2005 and preparations
are starting early to build for, and beyond, this event.
DTI Buries
Congo Controversy
A follow up to our March 2003 story which examined the
appalling situation in the Congo and the business interests sustaining
the ongoing conflict which had already claimed over three million
lives.
Supermarket
Man
Welcome to the small sad life of the corporate UK town. Corporate
Watch hears the story of one man trying to stop the destruction.
Registered
Social Landlords
‘Housing associations, or Registered Social Landlords
as they are now known, are becoming a powerful oppressive force
within our communities.’
News
Acronyms un-united: WEF, WSF and the ESF, Buying a new computer?
Hutchison, Nine Ladies: Eviction Imminent
Corporate Coverage
- Israel, Palestine and the BBC. Why is the BBC so poor at covering
Israel/Palestine?
Genewatch
As the Guardian announces that British women now have a one in nine
chance of getting breast cancer, HELENA PAUL of EcoNexus reports
on attempts to monopolise gene testing worldwide.
Babylonian Times
Helpful advice for UK companies, the Year of the Monkey, Making Policy
is Fun.
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