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Corporate Watch Web Site Online
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/* Written 9:18 PM Dec 11, 1996 by trac in igc:women.news / ---------- "New Corporate Watchdog Web Site!!!" -- / From: trac@igc.apc.org (Corporate Watch)
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12/10/96
CORPORATE WATCH WEB SITE ONLINE http://www.corpwatch.org
A new watchdog website dedicated to monitoring the activities of transnational corporations went online today.
Corporate Watch is designed to provide journalists, activists and policy makers around the world with up to date information and analysis on social, ecological and economic impacts of transnational corporations.
"We intend to be an online clearinghouse for information on these companies," explained Corporate Watch editorial board member Antonio Diaz.
The site will also serve as a mini-online magazine that runs features on related issues.
"One of the reasons we've created Corporate Watch is to keep an eye on all those Fortune 500 companies that are jumping on the World Wide Web bandwagon," remarked the site's editorial coordinator, Joshua Karliner. "That's why our first Feature focuses on the corporatization of the Internet itself."
Entitled "The Battle for the Future of the Internet," the Feature includes commentary from Hot Wired executive producer Gary Wolf, media and technology critic Jerry Mander, NetAction director Audrie Krause, and Brazilian Internet activist Carlos Afonso.
The Corporate Watch site also includes:
*An eight part nuts and bolts manual on how to research transnational corporations.
*Monthly "greenwash" awards given out by Corporate Watch and the environmental group Greenpeace to the most outrageous corporate "environmental" advertisements.
*An Image Gallery, with a permanent environmental art collection and rotating monthly exhibits. This month's exhibit features images from Bhopal, India, commemorating the 12th Anniversary of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster.
*In-depth analysis on corporate globalization, including reports from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and the New Delhi, India-based Public Interest Research Group.
*News from various sources, including Multinational Monitor, the Malaysia-based Third World Network, Ecuador-based Oil Watch.
*Direct Links to the Corporate Watch Affiliate Group--a collection of organizations which provide in depth research services.
*Links to hundreds of other websites with analysis of or information produced by transnational corporations.
Corporate Watch is a joint project of TRAC--the Transnational Resource and Action Center and IGC--the Institute for global communications.
contact: Joshua Karliner tel: 415-561-6567 fax: 415-561-6493 email: trac@igc.org web: http://www.corpwatch.org
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