Corporate Crime

Keystone XL Pipeline This is a fight for survival

"Money can pass through your hands like water but the land is forever" "What are we going to leave for our children if we don't stand up and fight? This is a fight for survival!"

Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President

This is from Greg Palasts listserve. -Rick

The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs—and why they need to buy the White House

by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash

Greg Palast's investigative reports are broadcast by BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book, Vultures' Picnic: a Tale of Oil, Sex, Radiation and Investigative Reporting will be released by Penguin USA on November 14.

[October 5, 2011] Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new table mates: Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David.

Sen. Schumer Calls for Investigation into “brazen” OnStar Privacy Violation

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into OnStar's announcement that it would track the location of its customers' vehicles even after the customers canceled their service. OnStar also reserved the right to sell such locational information to advertisers. In an interview with FOX News last week, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg warned that the company would make data of former customers available to third parties.

HONDURAS: 11 MORE PEOPLE KILLED IN THE AGUAN REGION

This is from an e-mail posted by Rights Action -Rick

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Campesinos Pitted Against Military, Police, Mercenaries and Drug Traffickers in Palm Oil Region as Canada and US Strengthen Trade Interests

WHAT TO DO = NO MORE 'BUSINESS AND POLITICS AS USUAL' WITH REPRESSIVE UNDEMOCRATIC REGIMES

Demand that the US and Canada end military and police assistance relations with Honduras;

Demand that the US and Canada suspend the implementation of the "free trade" agreement, and other trade agreements, and prioritize respect for human rights, for justice and the rule of law, and the re-founding of the Honduras State and society

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London's Burning!!! Anarchy in the UK!

The 2011 London Riots

The riots continue in London and surrounding areas for a third night.

"Fires, riots and looting spread across London." -- BBC

Large Sony distribution center burning out of control
Large Sony distribution center burning out of control

Source: London indymedia "Tumbles"

Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaining Traction

Published on Friday, July 1, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

In the year and a half since the Citizens United decision, Americans from all walks of life have become concerned about corporate dominance of our government and our society as a whole. In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous “judicial activism) gutted existing campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations, wealthy individuals, and other entities can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

Throughout the country people have responded by organizing against “corporate personhood,” a court-created precedent that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.

Murder in El Salvador Calls Canadian Mining Interests Into Question

Yet another anti-mining activist has been murdered in El Salvador.
Canadian civil society organizations are calling for a full investigation
into the murder of Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, the fourth such death in
two years that local organizations believe are linked to the presence of
Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in the department of Cabañas.

On June 2nd, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a thirty-year old linguistics
student at the Technological University in San Salvador, was hanging
posters in the city of Ilobasco, in the department of Cabañas as part of a
campaign against mining and Pacific Rim. The Cabañas Environmental
Committee reported that the local mayor ordered municipal police to remove
the banners and intimidate the activists hanging them. The next day, Juan

Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists

Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011

Protesters at Ratcliffe-on Soar power station, operated by E.ON, which says it has hired security firms to gather information on climate activists. Photograph: Tom Pilston
Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal.

The energy giant E.ON, Britain's second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK's largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists.

Beehive Collective: The True Cost of Coal @ TESC LH#3 4-6pm

10 Nov 2010 4:00 pm
Etc/GMT-8

Join the Beehive Collective for a visual workshop on "The True Cost of Coal"

When: Wednesday, November 10th from 4-6pm
Where: The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 3

Using a gigantic, portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and
animals
, the Bees will walk participants through the connections between

45,000 Ready to Shop!

"45,000 Troops Ready to Shop!"
Recession Schmecession!
"45,000 Troops Ready to Shop!"

Does this make you feel better about society and the economy, or not?

 

Boycott! A strategy for winning...

This year the Democrats are going to lose but dissident voices can win. We have a new and powerful excuse to boycott the elections, fighting corporate
power, but it has to be organized and an empowered boycott. This is a call against apathy, against the corporate political parties and for an empowered non-voter.

Constitution Day! Backbone Campaign brings Benjamin Franklin to Seattle.

September 17th the Backbone Campaign took back our nation's history from the far right. Benjamin Franklin showed up with a few words to share. backbonecampaign.org

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