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crossrail
SPITALFIELDS: DUMPED ON BY CITY OF LONDON RAIL LINK
Following on from Corporate Watch's coverage of how Channel Tunnel Rail Link contractor Skanska is ignoring the concerns of local Stratford residents about dust pollution (see
August 24th news update, News in Brief: Channel Tunnel Vision
), we have been contacted by local residents who report of similarly damaging proposals in the East End of London.
newspaper
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWS IN BRIEF
babylonian times
ICELAND HYDRO-DAM: POLISH WORKERS 'THREATENED WITH BEATINGS'
Gudmundur Gunnarsson, the father of pop star Bjork, has described 2B, an employment agency that recruits Polish workers for the Kárahnjúkar hydro-dam, as engaged in 'organised crime'.
This comes in response to reports by workers that a representative from 2B advised a site foreman to use beatings to punish any Poles who showed any resistance.
childline
CHILDLINE CLOSURE
Children's charity ChildLine is facing the closure of its Newton Abbot centre within the next few months, and major cuts at a second centre in Leeds.
wal-mart
ASDA WAL-MART: CUTTING COSTS AT ANY COST
Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retail company and is more familiar in the UK as the supermarket chain Asda. Wal-Mart has built a global empire of supermarket stores on an image of ‘always low prices’. This obsession with prices has led to poverty wages, ever-worsening sweatshop conditions and the destruction of local businesses and communities.
africa
"EVIDENCE-BASED" RESEARCH? ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND THE CORPORATIONS THAT FUND THEM
There are a large number of organisations, think tanks and research bodies promoting a heavily pro-corporate and anti-regulation agenda. These bodies, on the whole, receive corporate sponsorship and in the cases of some, can be seen to be front groups for industry lobbyists. Despite the blatant corporate agenda displayed by the sources of their funding, these groups base sometimes bitter attacks on environmental groups on claims that they use biased research to promote regulation and disrupt neo-liberalism.
cw report
SCHOOL MEALS REPORT
Read the Corporate Watch report on School Meals.
Jamie Oliver's TV series of early 2005 drew people's attention to theimportance of school meals. Even though, Jamie, as 'the face of Sainsbury,' is no enemy of corporate influence in food production and health, it is true that low spending on ingredients and labour by the private companies that run school dinners has a major impact on children's health.
cw report
under improvement
DIY Guide
banterminator.org
manchester anarchists bookfair
raised voices
remember saro wiwa
libcom.org
CORPORATE WATCH'S DIY GUIDE: HOW TO RESEARCH COMPANIES
This basic guide on how to research a company is an attempt to break down the mystique surrounding research. Anyone can find out about a company, with just a little time and imagination. And it's extremely satisfying to feel you've stitched up a company just by getting to know it better.
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