Truthout
Corporations
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Global Harms Need a Global Remedy: Small but Meaningful Victory against Hudbay Minerals
After human rights violations were perpetrated by a Canadian mining company against a Guatemalan village, the village fought back in court.
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Employers on the Public’s Dime: The Judicial Amendment that Put Money in the Company’s Pocket
One NLRA amendment cuts back pay by requiring that remedies not be punitive to the law violator.
NAFTA on Steroids: The TransPacific Partnership and Global Neoliberalism
Can democracy save capitalism, as it did in the 1930s, when it provided popular pressure to force the elite to accept changes otherwise resisted by capital, Cliff DuRand asks.
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Distorted Supply Chain Caused by MNCs Manufacturing Abroad and How to Restore Its Legitimacy
Corporations that manufacture offshore and import their own goods duty-free distort the supply chain.
Life and Death at Work: Labor and Occupational Health After Rana Plaza
While consumer activism and trade pressure are important for workplace safety, the rules are made to be broken in places like Bangladesh.
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Is Divesting Activism?
There is a right and a responsibility inherent in holding corporate shares.
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Colombian Connection: Canadian Neocolonialism in the Global South
Canada's involvement in social and ecological injustices in Colombia often goes unremarked.
Ladydrawers: Fast Fashion
Fast fashion means cheap, cute, disposable threads on which we spend about $1,700 per year.
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The Three Biggest Lies About Why Corporate Taxes Should Be Lowered
Robert Reich: Corporations want corporate tax reduction to be the centerpiece of 'tax reform' come the fall.
The Chemical Industry Divides an Environmental Coalition into Disarray
The bill presently before Congress to modernize the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act would provide virtual carte blanche to the chemical industry. And thanks to some classic