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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anti-corporate activists (see activism) believe that the rise of large business corporations is posing a threat to the legitimate authority of the public good.
		These corporations, they believe, are invading people's privacy, manipulating politics and governments, and creating false needs in consumers.
		The defenders of corporations would argue that governments do legislate in ways that restrict the actions of corporations (see Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and that lawbreaking companies and executives are routinely caught and punished.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Anti-corporate_activism (462 words)

	Anti-corporate activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anti-corporate activists (see activism) believe that the rise of large business corporations is posing a threat to the legitimate authority of the public good.
		The defenders of corporations would argue that governments do legislate in ways that restrict the actions of corporations (see Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and that lawbreaking companies and executives are routinely caught and punished.
		Nonetheless, the structures of bureaucracy and the financial imperatives of capitalism seem to result in forms of behaviour which are often damaging for local communities, employees and the environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-corporate_activism (454 words)

	WTO \| World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT The New World Order page
		In approaching the problem of opposing corporate power, we immediately had to acknowledge that corporate power is different, essentially and perceptually, from the government power against which there is such a long and varied tradition of resistance.
		Corporate power is alien and faceless, a disembodied, unlocalized, inhuman force that constantly thrusts itself upon us, but has only a multitude of seemingly dissociated aims and no position we can count on, or against which we can fight.
		It is easy, given the discouraging mutability of corporate power, the impossibility of determining a single characteristic or creed that defines it, to fall into the trap of choosing to believe that it is relatively benign.
	www.gatt.org /arse.html (2271 words)

	Garrett Bucks
		Corporations are not simply interested in the values and aesthetic preoccupations of those individuals viewed as being on the “cutting edge” of society; to the contrary, an intense knowledge of this sector of society is absolutely necessary for the survival of the flexible accumulation regime.
		As has already been established, corporate culture at the time of these particular identity politics campaigns was not simply interested, but fully reliant on the cultural/political images being created on the margins of society.
		For some activists, the shift towards anti-corporate activism was a natural progression, as was the case with feminists protesting the cosmetics industry.
	www.earlham.edu /~pags/senior_thesis/garrett_bucks.htm (12733 words)

	Center for Corporate Citizenship - April 2004 Conference Report
		The IRI of the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College held its second conference to discuss the evolution, current practice, and future of multiple bottom line disclosure both internationally and in the United States.
		At the same time, stated commitment to corporate responsibility has become popular in France since the law took effect in CEO statements, a market for corporate responsibility services (e.g., consulting, rating, auditing, academic programs, conferences) has emerged in France, and the media has become highly interested.
		If the idea is to shift norms with the corporation about the way decisions are made, then measurement and reporting externally may be important levers for getting managers to pay attention to relevant stakeholder and ecological issues.
	www.bcccc.net /index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=1172&nodeID=3&parentID=1170&grandparentID=885 (2847 words)

	NAOMI KLEIN - FEBRUARY 2001 \| Thunderbird Magazine
		THE RECENT RISE in youth-driven, anti-corporate activism can be traced to the growing commercialization of youth and exploitation of youth as workers — which is occurring even in our schools.
		What is new, said Klein, is the dovetailing of youth marketing with two more recent developments — the ideology of corporate branding and the retreat of government from the public sphere, particularly with regard to the full funding of education.
		The idea was for corporations to promote not a product, but an idea or image that would foster a deeper connection with consumers and create a tribe of brand faithfuls, with lifetime consumer loyalty.
	www.journalism.ubc.ca /thunderbird/archives/2001.02/klein.html (987 words)

	Anti-corporate activism - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		These corporations, they believe, are invading people's privacy, manipulating politics and governments, and psychologically influencing the public at large to their own benefit.
		These corporations, anti-corporate philosophy states, no longer serve their home countries and need to be exposed and shamed for their illegal and immoral activities.
		Corporation leaders, the critics say, are not inherently more evil than anyone else and so are no more likely to attempt atrocities or large-scale criminal activity than the general population, nor are they immune to prosecution.
	www.music.us /education/A/Anti-corporate-activism.htm (483 words)

	Just Stop It, Sojourners Magazine/March-April 2001
		Klein is as careful to note the excesses and co-option of some anti-corporate activism as she is to detail the dire conditions of a sweatshop or deflate corporate image-mongering.
		To me the common thread that runs through all the anti-corporate activism that I've covered for the past five years is this idea of reclaiming the public from the privatized.
		In the mid '90s there was this sense that activism was dying from lack of imagination and failing to even keep the people who were most committed to the causes interested.
	www.sojo.net /index.cfm?action=magazine.article&mode=printer_friendly&issue=soj0103&article=010321 (1596 words)

	The Witness
		I wanted to write about anti-corporate activism, and I knew that a lot of the young people who were getting involved felt they were over-marketed-to, but also that they had the freedom to go after these corporations, because they in no sense expected job security, or basically anything, from them.
		They felt that corporations' messages were everywhere, but on an employment level, maybe you'd get a barista job at Starbucks [the people who serve the coffee], but it's not like they're the anchor of your community and you have to be loyal to them because they employed dad for 50 years.
		Then, once a few corporations are successfully targeted, they often turn to the politicians and say, "This isn't fair -- you have to level the playing field and develop some sort of across-the-board legislative response," for instance, that genetically-engineered or modified foods have to be labeled.
	thewitness.org /archive/nov2000/interview.html (2167 words)

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		Such activism can include company-specific websites and campaigns, which feature news, boycott or protest tactics, and relay information that can damage companies’ reputation and brand image, Such websites sometimes also feature chat rooms where complaints and comments are lodged that can raise questions about the company’s overall level of responsibility.
		The corporate scandals in the US of the early 2000s also created numerous calls for reform of corporate governance, mostly in the interest of serving shareholder better, but also creating a context in which transparency and accountability have come to the forefront of thinking about corporate governance.
		These management systems are already being supported by a growing array of corporate citizenship/responsibility consultancies, as well as trade, industry, and business association initiatives that provide information and education, and voluntary multi-stakeholder alliances that provide guidance and input into internal corporate management systems from a range of perspectives.
	www2.bc.edu /~waddock/TpgPtPpr.doc (6995 words)

	Corporate Integrity in a Post-Scandal World
		Executive greed, corporate malfeasance, and accounting misrepresentations seem to be the norm in an era where CEO compensation averages, depending on your source, somewhere between 411 and 475 times that of the average worker.
		Corporate responses to public outrage about these unethical practices range from the do-nothing-and-maybe-the-problem-will-go-away approach to the development of proactive responsibility management systems.
		Despite the prevalence of abuses, many corporate managers are well aware that company stakeholders have grown quite sophisticated in their demands for integrity.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v11/my23/waddock.html (748 words)

	Anti-capitalism with a smiley face?
		We are continuously offered sound bite rebukes to corporate ideology, yet the generality of conditions that have given rise to these ideational social forms are never explored.
		With a similar emphasis of corporate abuse of power and the excessive gravity of the inequality it engenders, Hertz endeavours to utilise the same type of personable journalism of her Canadian counterpart.
		The battles fought out by a dying labour movement are not represented in this book, and the symbolic activisms that have taken their place are not at all understood in the context of defeat.
	www.generation-online.org /other/anti-capitalism.htm (3769 words)

	No Logo: A Conversation with Naomi Klein : LA IMC
		I had a hunch that there were little pockets of anti-corporate activism, there were little pockets of adbusting, little pockets of independent media, a lot of stuff going on on the web, but on a very, very small scale.
		I’m looking at this piece of corporate ideology which has gripped Wall Street for the past 15 years and has transformed the way corporations do business, which is if you want to be successful, you have to produce a brand not a product.
		Anyone who is trying to get an idea out there is competing with these multinational corporations who are in the ideas business as well, which is why I think the challenge for the left is so great at this point.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=3496 (2816 words)

	Tough Issues, Tough World - SourceWatch
		Some of the workshops failed to live up to the promise of their title, such as the provocatively-named session titled "Counteracting Anti-Corporate Activism on the Web, in the Streets, Against Individuals." Led by PR Newswire senior vice president David Armon, the session focused entirely on the internet.
		All the examples of "anti-corporate" activism discussed during the workshop were either specific consumer complaints, the work of disgruntled employees, or disguised attacks by corporate competitors.
		Very little was said about the kind of anti-corporate activism that has taken place in the last year in the streets of Seattle or Prague.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Tough_Issues,_Tough_World (999 words)

	Anti-Corporate Activism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anti-corporate activism is becoming a growing concern to companies and managing threats like just some of the above examples may well prove to become one of the dominant management and communications challenges in the future.
		Self-serving corporate statements of exoneration may only inflame the anger of activists.
		It is a new force of global social democracy and it is likely to become an increasing priority on the agenda at tomorrow‘s board meeting.
	www.globalprofile.co.uk /48 (1391 words)

	Corporations painted in red and blue / S.F. man politicizes purchasing power
		Having taken a beating at the ballot box, the left is redirecting its post-election energy at corporate boardrooms.
		In recent history, anti-corporate activism goes back to a 1980s consumer boycott of Nestle Corp., which was blamed for encouraging Third World women to become dependent on infant formula they couldn't afford.
		Some organizers say it is easier to focus their faithful on a corporate logo than to point them toward political lobbying.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/15/CORP.TMP&type=printable (1260 words)

	Student Movement: Protests Rock The Corporate University
		WRC members require their apparel licensees to comply with a strict code of conduct--guaranteeing workers a living wage and the right to organize unions- -and mandate full public disclosure of wages, factory locations and working conditions.
		In the recent history of student activism, the new emphasis on economics represents quite a shift.
		Ten years ago, there was plenty of student organizing, but it was fragmentary and sporadic, and most of it focused on what some, mostly its detractors, liked to call "identity politics," fighting the oppression of racial and sexual minorities, and of women.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Youth/NewStudentMovement.html (2943 words)

	Corporate Watch : Home : HOME
		We present a useful guide to some of the strange corporate creatures that have crawled into the UK public sector.
		Corporate Watch presents a handy guide to the swarm of acronyms that hide the corporate-crawlies that have infested the UK public sector.
		Corporate Watch is accepting poems for an upcoming booklet to celebrate Corporate Watch's tenth year.
	www.corporatewatch.org.uk (358 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Lou Dobbs & the Dead-End of White Anti-Corporate Populism
		The book is full of statistical information and analysis about the way in which huge corporations and the top one percent of the population are using their power and wealth to the detriment of the bottom 90 percent.
		Dobbs is often eloquent in his deep criticisms of corporate power in the USA, but he has trouble supporting anti-corporate movements that don't fit his rightist ideological approach.
		Here is what he has to say about Venezuela and Bolivia, two countries with democratically-elected leaders who are serious about ending the dominance of rich elites in their countries: "Communist China is asserting its influence in the Western Hemisphere, building relationships with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and of course, Cuba's Fidel Castro."
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11602§ionID=1 (1092 words)

	DaVinci: Society> Activism> Anti-Corporation
		- News on the politics of brand hegemony and corporate power, and of acts of organized and disorganized resistance from all over the world.
		- The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria.
		- Regular updates on campaign for justice in Bhopal, the class action suit against Union Carbide Corporation, and activities of organizations for survivors of the Union Carbide disaster.
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Society/Activism/Anti-Corporation (360 words)

	Corporate Issues
		Trust me, corporations don't have a corner on all the "bad guys." Lefties and the poor have their own share of "bad guys." That's one reason revolutions don't work; they usually just loose one set of "bad guys" on their "opposite numbers." No, I didn't read Trotsky on why revolutions don't work.
		The worst nightmare of corporate public relations departments, the typical anti-corporate campaign throws it back in their faces, using some of the same mass-media techniques (the author calls it "strategic political communication").
		The Regulatory Power of the Corporate Reputation: Corporations Confront Anti-Corporate Activism in an Era of Globalisation Working Paper: Centre for Risk Research, Shiga University, Japan.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/corpissues01.htm (1019 words)

	Pulse of the Twin Cities - Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
		It’s a belief that the role of government is essentially to facilitate investment for multinational corporations and create new investment opportunities—which is where privatization comes in—but also deregulation and downsizing of the state.
		Certainly the opposition to the Bush administration and the war in Iraq and the sort of corporate takeover of politics was very, very clear; but in terms of the opposition, the way it was expressed was very timid and controlled.
		There’s also an interesting wave of activism going on now on university campuses and in high schools against military recruiting, which I think does show that people are shaking off some of that fear, particularly young people.
	pulsetc.com /article.php?sid=1773 (4094 words)

	Vox Magazine ----Signs of the times: Get a glimpse at the new face of activism as generations come together for the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To them, activism is a natural reaction to seeing something in the community that bothers them; it is a way to achieve political and social change.
		Angie Vo, 21, has been instrumental in organizing the event, and she says one of its appeals is that it is a different sort of activism.
		“What is activism if not being involved in your community and believing you can help change it?” she asks with a broad smile.
	www.voxmagazine.com /story.php?ID=6373 (1426 words)

	Corporation Anti Activism Society
		- "Untangling ourselves from the monocult." Challenging the corporate domination of the seed supply, industrial biopiracy and irresponsible control of our food.
		- Group working on a campaign to eliminate the corosive political influence of corporations and restore democracy to the people.
		- Dedicated to opposing the corporate invasion of Woodstock NY by CVS Pharmacy and to preserve the site of the former Grand Union for a supermarket.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Activism/Anti-Corporation (360 words)

	YDS > Resources > Race and the Student Movement
		While the coverage of political activism tends to ignore the rich and inspiring work that goes on in communities of color, it is true that white students are on the march- and largely overlooking questions of domestic racism in favor of internationally flavored anti corporate activism.
		This is not to say that anti sweatshop organizing in Madison should end; but simply that we must take another step forward, connecting the work we are doing to oppose discrimination around the globe with that which is happening in our own communities for students and faculty of color.
		Let's work so that our anti sweatshop organizations are explicitly anti-racist, and build a committed and long standing relationship with the communities affected by oppressive labor standards; namely immigrants and women.
	www.ydsusa.org /interracial.html (1905 words)

	portland imc - 2004.03.18 - The Apparat
		this shill network is a focused post-1960s 'counter-coup' response of the wealthy elites who run corporations to 'protect' their dominance and thriving at the peak of the capitalist pyramid.
		Objective is to churn out narrow corporate and far-right ideology counter to the academia-, "welfare state"- and US government/career lawyer-generated American ideology which was predominant after WWII.
		When we finish, they will wimper about the unfairness of it all, as they whine today about the left-wing corporate media; and we will discover the propaganda will be still flowing like an overloaded sewer.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/03/283260.shtml (934 words)

	Elizabeth Crawford on Naomi Klein's Fences and Windows on NRO Financial
		The book vilified corporations and brands, and seemed to crystallize the discontent of the protesters, putting Klein at the center of nascent anti-corporate activism.
		It seems that her real problem is the conflict between the local voice of the community and the impersonal voice of corporate advertising.
		However, when corporations are functioning within the law, they help raise the standard of living.
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_comment/comment-crawford121302.asp (996 words)

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