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	Center for Corporate Policy: Corporate Crime and Abuse
		But a recognition that corporations are able to compensate their victims and are more readily identified as a source of harm than the individuals within them has gradually led to the general consideration that corporations can be convicted for acts that violate the law.
		American courts first placed corporations into a criminal law context in a 1909 New York Central Railroad case (212 U.S. Standards for criminal sanctions for both corporations and their top executives should be strengthened, especially for occupational, consumer and environmental crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
		Richard Breeden, a corporate monitor and former SEC commissioner was appointed by the district court.
	www.corporatepolicy.org /issues/crime.htm (2762 words)

	How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility
		Corporate law thus casts ethical and social concerns as irrelevant, or as stumbling blocks to the corporation's fundamental mandate.
		Even when corporations are defeated in particular battles, they go on the next day, in other ways and other places, to pursue their own private interests at the expense of the public.
		Corporations abuse the public interest because the law tells them their only legal duty is to maximize profits for shareholders.
	www.medialens.org /articles/the_articles/articles_2002/rh_corporate_responsibility.html (1859 words)

	Corporate-Alien Frequently Asked Questions
		Many corporate employees try to do their jobs, but because of the unceasing push by upper management to make more money, the labor force is being psychologically frustrated.
		Corporate Aliens treat their workers as listings on some computer database that can be edited or even deleted at will.
		Corporate managers are usually college graduates with degrees in such fields as business, education, or political science.
	www.corporate-aliens.com /faq.php (2430 words)

	Corporate Abuse and Misconduct - Wilkes&McHugh, P.A. Practice Area
		But many of today’s con artists run corporations with the resources and know-how to defraud millions of American families.
		Because many corporations will often pay top dollar for their legal defense, the power of a big firm can help get you the best results possible.
		If you or someone you love has been the victim of corporate abuse or misconduct, contact our office at 800-255-5070 or click here to have an attorney contact you.
	www.wilkesmchugh.com /pa_corp_misconduct.html (279 words)

	The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle, Edward Herman
		We are at the peak of the latest corporate abuse-reform cycle in which business abuses have been so severe, and their effects so conspicuous, that their low-key treatment and normalization by the mainstream media has been unsustainable.
		But corporate proposals at stockholder meetings normally don't generate much publicity, and the options usually only get out of hand in times of prosperity and euphoria when they are hidden beneath the trappings of success.
		More basic would be decentralization of the overconcentrated corporate system, including the media conglomerates, and a strengthening of the labor movement, which would tip the scales toward a more democratic capitalism and away from "corporate democracy" and plutocratic capitalism.
	www.theconversation.org /abuse-reform.html (1670 words)

	Campaigns - Corporate Accountability International - Challenging Abuse, Protecting People - Think Outside the Bottle - ...
		Our campaigns expose how abusive corporations are devastating communities around the world, and we call for strong, enforceable standards and policies that will rein in these abuses and put people first.
		Corporations like Coca-Cola and Suez are contributing to water scarcity and attempting to turn water from a basic human right into an unaffordable luxury.
		Corporate giants such as Cargill, Monsanto, and Dow Chemical control the world food supply, promote and use dangerous pesticides that poison people and the earth, and increase dependence on biotechnology and genetic engineering that pose unknown risks to people and the environment.
	www.stopcorporateabuse.org /cms/page1095.cfm (393 words)

	"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange 12 December 2005
		Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account.
		Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders.
		Center for Corporate Policy notes, it is no coincidence that Lockheed VP Bruce Jackson – who helped draft the Republican foreign policy platform in 2000 – is a key player at the Project for a New American Century, the intellectual incubator of the Iraq war.
	www.doublestandards.org /exchange1.html (2977 words)

	Corporate Reform After Enron
		In order to cure the disease of corporate abuse of the public interest, its cause must be understood and either changed or eliminated.
		Corporations only exist because state legislatures, the elected representatives of the people, have passed laws allowing corporations to be formed and be recognized.
		In addition, because it is imposed as part of the corporate law, it governs the corporation (and its subsidiaries) worldwide, not just on a case-by-case basis in local jurisdictions where the company has its various operations.
	multinationalmonitor.org /mm2002/02july-aug/july-aug02corp4.html (2394 words)

	Prevent Corporate Brand Abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abuse of your logos, trademarks and copyrights can undermine your company’s business model.
		Domain name abuse – domain registrations that include trademarked terms and misspellings of brands to confuse customers, extort money from the trademark holder or for use in a phishing attack (commonly called cybersquatting).
		Paid placement advertising abuse – competitors or predators bidding on trademarks in the pay-per-click advertising systems used by all major search engines in order to divert customers.
	www.cyveillance.com /web/online_risks/brand_abuse.htm (210 words)

	Let the Sun Shine In by Ralph Estes - corporate abuse and accountability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today, the purpose of corporations is taken to be maximizing the wealth of executives and stockholders at whatever cost to other stakeholders, the public interest, and the commonwealth.
		But the first step is to force corporations to be accountable to all who are affected by what they do, or who contribute to their success—the stakeholders.
		Corporations are required to provide frequent and detailed financial reports—which, with legislation currently in the mix, may once again become reasonably dependable.
	www.yesmagazine.org /article.asp?ID=528 (1100 words)

	Corporate Accountability International - Challenging Abuse, Protecting People - Think Outside the Bottle - challenging ...
		Corporate Accountability and its allies are calling for Dasani (made by Coke) to label the source of its bottled water.
		In the coming weeks Corporate Accountability will be hosting and supporting events in communities across the U.S. during Blue October – an international month of action to challenge the corporate control of water.
		Corporate control of water, including the bottled water industry, is contributing to the growing global water crisis.
	www.stopcorporateabuse.org (587 words)

	Common Cause Urges an End to Corporate Welfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Corporate welfare programs have been detailed and analyzed by a number organizations, including the Congressional Budget Office, CATO Institute, the Progressive Policy Institute and a coalition of groups who authored the "Green Scissors" reports.
		Corporate welfare remains an intractable part of the federal budget in large part because campaign contributions flow to Members of Congress from those special interests that benefit from corporate welfare programs.
		An independent commission on corporate welfare and an expedited process for implementing that commission's recommendations that would be established by S. 1376 is one way to ensure that these powerfully backed programs are subject to the same scrutiny as other budget items.
	www.ccsi.com /~comcause/news/corwel.html (2143 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In House Bid, Democrats Target Corporate Abuse
		Democrats, needing to pick up six seats to win control of the House for the first time since 1994, see the "corporate responsibility" theme as their best chance of knocking off GOP incumbents in what is shaping up as a fight over a very small number of competitive districts.
		Democrats concede their challenge is to convince the public that Republicans are to blame for the loose government regulations that permitted corporate scandals to go undetected, as well as for the plummeting stock prices that followed.
		Johnson said she was aiming to strike a balance between curbing corporate flight while giving firms an incentive to stay in the United States.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2002Jun25?language=printer (1157 words)

	Senior Management Leadership, Corporate Abuse, and the Project Manager in Turnarounds
		Individuals who are on the receiving end of corporate abuse are struggling to survive in a workplace that has become uncivilized.
		These, then, are sources of abuse: the persistence of outdated systems that take precedence over human needs, which we call systematic abuse; the wrenching changes in industrial and economic structures that put an entire company under pressure, which we call structural abuse; and the dysfunctional behavior of individuals, which we call deliberate abuse.
		Abuse is the prevailing norm in a corporate culture.
	members.aol.com /AllenWeb/culture.html (8604 words)

	From Public Use To Corporate Abuse
		City officials say they simply are using the constitutional power of eminent domain to take land from private owners, with "just compensation," when it is needed for a public use -- and that clearing land for commercial development is necessary to gain badly needed tax revenue.
		City of New London, seven homeowners and small business owners are challenging New London, Connecticut 's attempt to seize their property to make way for a shopping mall and other unspecified "redevelopment." The plaintiffs say eminent domain should be invoked only for truly public uses such as roads, fire stations or parks.
		The "butcher, the brewer, or the baker" who Smith believed would further the general welfare by pursuing their own self-interest (the "invisible hand" theory) overwhelmingly were small enterprises.
	reclaimdemocracy.org /civil_rights/public_use_corporate_abuse.php (1034 words)

	Campaign Unavailable
		The corporation is buying up and drying up sources of fresh water all over the world to turn it into soda or bottled water.
		In India, the corporation denied farmers the right to produce, modify, and sell the seeds they had relied on for centuries.
		With your help we can publicize their abuses, their influence peddling and their callousness to public health and safety.
	www.stopcorporateabusenow.org /campaign/hallofshame (512 words)

	CORPORATE ABUSE CONSPIRACY \| MAJOR PROBLEMS CORPORATE CORRUPTION POLITICAL CORRUPTION RELIGIOUS ABUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Corporations have become active in reducing fringe benefits along with wages, and the jobs themselves, one of the more recent of which is Microsoft.
		Democrat John Kerry who promised to act against the corporate outsourcing of jobs and facilities was defeated, and fact, corporate apologists, led by the White House, continues to advance a defense of these social and economic outrages against the middle and lower classes.
		Corporate ownership of the government is progressing under an indefensible smoke screen which proclaims that "privatization" is good for the public.
	www.newthought-apps.net /0intro/choice2_majorproblems.html (13781 words)

	Corporate Accountability Committee Main - Sierra Club
		CAC takes action through shareholder resolutions, opposing corporate water privatization, and education regarding the fundamentals of corporate power.
		The Corporate Accountability Committee facilitates the Club's response to the corporate abuse of power and its advocacy of enforceable measures to ensure corporate accountability in relation to the environment, communities and public health.
		Environmental protection requires addressing the privileged position and power of corporations which assert their presumed rights as persons and their right to operate through corporate charters without community accountability.
	www.sierraclub.org /cac (298 words)

	Co-op America's Responsible Shopper: Global Research & Action to Stop Corporate Abuse
		Responsible Shopper alerts the public about the social and environmental impact of major corporations, and provides opportunities for consumers and investors to vote with their dollars for change.
		We focus our research on companies that are subjects of consumer and shareholder action campaigns, and that have significant influence in their industry.
		Take action on campaigns to end corporate abuse.
	www.coopamerica.org /programs/responsibleshopper (540 words)

	Sirotablog: On Lies, Airport Floors & Corporate Abuse
		Yet, when we got off plane, the corporate manager of Northwest at Minneapolis airport changed the code to say our flight was cancelled because of weather - a deliberate move to make sure Northwest doesn't have to foot the bill for a hotel...no problem anyway - all hotels are booked.
		I'm not really sure what the answer to all of this is, though it is especially insulting that this kind of thing regularly occurs in an industry subsidized by our hard-earned tax dollars.
		To be sure, this kind of corporate abuse is miniscule compared to things like Enron, etc. - but it is still corporate abuse.
	www.davidsirota.com /2005/06/on-lies-airport-floors-corporate-abuse.html (1082 words)

	AlterNet: Ignoring the Real Corporate Abuse
		In July, for example, Democratic house leader Dick Gephardt, who publicly is outraged by corporate America's greed, privately charged $5,000 per ticket to corporate lobbyists for a fundraising reception in his honor.
		Likewise, a half-dozen republican Senators, who are part of George W. Bush's born-again moralistic crusade against corporate evildoers, played courtesans to corporate lobbyists who paid $15,000 each to spend private time with the senators at a posh resort.
		Practically every corporation coming to these fundraisers is guilty of contaminating our air and water, mugging workers, dodging their fair share of taxes, stiffing farmers and small business, lying to consumers, buying special favors from politicians, and generally running roughshod over all of us.
	www.alternet.org /columnists/story/13694 (530 words)

	Amazon.com: Corporate Corruption: The Abuse of Power: Books: Marshall B. Clinard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Giant corporations and executives are in the spotlight in this critical examination of ethical and unethical behavior.
		Not only are cases of corporate abuse detailed, but the dynamics which play a role in corruption development are detailed.
		Although the existence of these large corporations has contributed to the high standard of living in the U.S., he charges that many corporations have abused the public trust, the users of their products, their employees and stockholders, and the environment.
	www.amazon.com /Corporate-Corruption-Marshall-B-Clinard/dp/0275934853 (1410 words)

	Comment is free: Corporate abuse
		Corporations often loot countries' resources through the vanguard de-regulations of the IMF (Argentina etc.) and through colluding with and bribing corrupt national elites.
		Corporations have a legal substance but only human beings can kill, torture, maim, be negligent, etc. Blaming 'the corporation' for human rights abuses merely lets a load of human beings off the hook.
		Within the corporate framework it is easy for people to forget basic givens about the consequences of their actions as they are encouraged to respond to profits and only profits.
	commentisfree.guardian.co.uk /john_hilary/2007/03/power_without_responsibilities.html (5327 words)

	Coerced Confessions - A Corporate Abuse
		Many large corporations take a "loss prevention" approach that utilizes training manuals modeled after the leading police manuals -- using the very techniques that cause false confessions.
		A civil jury struck a blow for corporate accountability, socking AutoZone with a verdict of $7.5 million in punitive damages.
		The case stemmed from events several years ago, when a store manager became convinced that one of his employees (a loyal worker with a sterling reputation) had stolen $800.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/0522-32.htm (991 words)

	CNN.com - President to take Wall Street to task - July 9, 2002
		Also Tuesday, the Senate is to begin debate on a bill that would provide a framework to help ensure corporate responsibility, address conflicts of interest among stock analysts and create an independent board to oversee the auditing of public companies.
		In his speech Tuesday, Bush is expected to highlight proposals he already has unveiled, including giving the SEC the authority, without going to court, to ban corporate officers who abuse their power from serving on corporate boards, a senior Bush administration official said.
		Bush is expected to say that the excesses of the 1990s -- during the Clinton administration -- contributed to corporate abuses, a point his economic team has made in recent weeks, a senior administration official said.
	www.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/bush.corporate.abuse (717 words)

	Corporate Accountability International
		Corporate Accountability International's new campaigns challenge irresponsible corporate actions in industries like water, tobacco, oil, and food and agribusiness.
		We are taking on some of the most powerful corporate giants in the world, and we know we can win with your help.
		Corporate Accountability International is challenging Coke to stop stealing water from local communities.
	www.stopcorporateabusenow.org /stopcorporateabuse/home.html (340 words)

	The 2003 Dumb-Ass Corporate Lawsuit Awards
		In two infamous cases, the RIAA strong-armed a 12-year-old-girl and her mom into paying $2,000 under threat of a Federal lawsuit, and RIIA was forced to drop their suit against a 66-year-old-grandmother who didn't even own a computer capable of file swapping.
		(Note to cereal corporations: these animals exist outside your advertising campaigns.) Luckily, the U.S. Federal Courts were on the job and informed the animated character and its corporate backers that real toucans existed first and golf courses have little to do with selling sugary children's cereal.
		Wieck, of Sioux City, was a corporate crusader on a mission: to limit citizens' access to the courts, grabbing his pen and passing a law that severely limited the jury trial rights of ordinary families.
	www.corporatemofo.com /stories/031019lawsuits.htm (1474 words)

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