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By Corporate Watch UK
Completed May 2005
5.1 Non-traditional innovation in 5.2 Marketing 5.3 Unions and labour - the shift to casualisation 5.4 Relations with suppliers 5.5 Diageo in Africa 5.6 Environmental damage 5.7 GM products 5.8 MAI 5.9 Colombia 5.10 Human rights 5.11 Squeezing out small businesses 5.12 The Thalidomide scandal 5.13 The Guinness Affair
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Wednesday, 15 October: 'Smash EDO, Shut ITT': mass demo against the arms trade. Meet opposite Falmer Station (next to the Sussex University sign), Brighton at midday. Contact: www.smashedo.org.uk/shut-itt.htm. See Campaign Against the Arms Trade for more anti-arms events: www.caat.org.uk/events/diary.php
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CSR, or Corporate Social Responsibility, is a phenomenon that free-market gurus like the late Milton Friedman railed against, and that concerned non-governmental organisations often rush to embrace. Yet, both of these seemingly paradoxical reactions to CSR are arguably misinformed: they falsely take the rhetoric of CSR at face value and believe that its proponents are actually concerned with improving corporate social responsibility to the broader population, not just to their shareholders.
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India is the biggest single recipient of British aid, with £1 billion spent between 2003 and 2008 through the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). This article, written for Corporate Watch by Richard Whittell, introduces a series of short films and interviews about the DfID in India to be published over the coming weeks, which were shot by Whittell and Indian activist Eshwarappa M during a trip to various parts of the country affected by British money. Their experience meeting people whose lives have been directly affected by DfID activities, as well as evidence and opinions provided by activists, academics, journalists, state employees and DfID staff, did not tally with the claims made for British aid by DFID's publicity.
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As E.On pulls out of building a coal-fired power station in Kingsnorth for the time-being, the multinational has expressed its support for the 10:10 campaign against climate change. It is important that our analysis of the relationship between corporations and climate change, and of what constitutes effective action against climate change, is as sharp as ever.
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DIAGEO PLC
A Corporate ProfileBy Corporate Watch UK
Completed May 2005
5 Corporate Crimes
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RESISTING THE CORPORATIONS
Modern Autoreduction? Financial protests continue
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside The Stock Exchange in the City of London on 10th October to protest against the government's bail-out of crumbling corporations and the likely impact that the looming recession will have on the British and global working classes. Under the motto "Capitalism isn't in crisis; capitalism IS crisis", the demo was organised by the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) but was attended by a wide variety of people, many of whom were students, who are likely to be personally affected by the 'credit crunch' in different ways, such as by rent increases, job losses and general price increases.
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July 1st 1999 marked the return of a Scottish parliament after almost 300 years. For most of its history, Scotland was an independent country, a separate European nation with its own economy, foreign policy, monarchy and armed forces. After the Act of Union in 1707, Scotland became part of Great Britain, but a demand for self-government has existed ever since, with the campaign for devolution gaining momentum in the 1980s across the political spectrum.
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Defining the key companies and sectors in the Scottish economy is a problematic enterprise. An influential 2004 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) report identified four sectors: banking, oil and gas, electricity and transport, as the biggest 'wealth creating' industries for Scotland. However, just because a company is registered or is head quartered in Scotland, it doesn't mean to say that it is actively contributing to the Scottish economy. In many cases, it is actually sucking wealth out to parent companies and shareholders elsewhere. As we will see, the only allegiance 'Scottish' companies have is to the international financial system.
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Investigations of for-profit corporations are proceeding well, but not-for-profit corporations, although part of the same problem, are mostly neglected. And these not only include foundations, but also charities, causes, non-governmental organisations and think-tanks.
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Hackney Unemployed Workers is an autonomous group supported by the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP). The group was formed in 2008, following direct action at a local job centre in support of two LCAP members whose benefit claims had not been processed for weeks. Harry McGill and Anne-Marie O’Reilly write about the campaign and the recent welfare system ‘reforms’.
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By Pippa Gallop - CEE Bankwatch Network and Anders Lustgarten - Bretton Woods Project
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The final part of the Dodgy Development: DFID in India series by Eshwarappa M and Richard Whittell, published by Corporate Watch over the past few months, focuses on the British government's Department for International Development's funding of civil society organisations. This part comprises a film and two interviews. The film, False Promises, looks at the 'Business Partners for Development' project, funded by the DFID, which convinced people to allow a coal company to mine their lands with devastating results. In the two interviews that conclude the series, two people's organisation activists discuss why groups like theirs should not take the DFID's money and argue for the importance and necessity of international, people to people solidarity. Preceding parts of the series can be found here.
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Edinburgh is the second largest financial services centre in the UK after London, and despite its geographical size is the sixth largest investment management centre in Europe and the 15th largest in the world. Scotland is also home to three of the UK's top five life assurance and pensions companies as well as Royal Bank of Scotland, which is the second largest bank in Europe and one of the world's top 20.1
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Friday, 21st May: Shut down the G4S Chambers
G4S has recently won a "British Safety Council International Award" in relation to Oakington Immigration centre. The company will be presented with the award on Friday 21 May during a black tie banquet at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London. "We urge workers to disrupt this spectacle. We will be there to help destroy it."
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/05/450410.html
G4S has recently won a "British Safety Council International Award" in relation to Oakington Immigration centre. The company will be presented with the award on Friday 21 May during a black tie banquet at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London. "We urge workers to disrupt this spectacle. We will be there to help destroy it."
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/05/450410.html
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