Corporate Watch

Tara Wesely
DIG Contributor

In our consumer-driven culture, we vote with our dollars. Do you want to know that your purchase doesn’t perpetuate sweatshop labor? Do you wish you could buy a vehicle that better utilized available technology? Every purchase we make sends a message to Corporate America. Lets send the message that there is indeed a market demand for cleaner, greener, socially-sound products. The almighty consumer dollar just might be the voice that will get through to Corporate America. (Something has to.) Be an informed consumer. The following resources can help. www.responsibleshopper.org For individuals wishing to shop with or research responsible companies, Responsible Shopper from Co-op America offers in-depth social profiles on countless companies. A report on IBM, for example, looks at everything from Superfund sites, toxic emissions, and worker benefits to laudatory activities. www.corpwatch.org For activists, “Watchdog on the Web” may be the best site of all. CorpWatch offers news you may not find elsewhere on human rights abuses abroad, public policy, and environmental news-plus on-site reporting of protests. CorpWatch puts out the bimonthly Greenwash Awards, and runs a Climate Justice Initiative, as well as the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN. To subscribe to their e-letter, send a blank message to corp-watchers-subscribe@igc.topica.com www.corporatepredators.org Corporate Predators offers a valuable, quirky voice in corporate responsibility. Taking on topics not covered elsewhere, the columns have looked at how the chemical industry responded to Bill Moyers TV program on industry coverup, how little academic research focuses on corporate crime, and why it’s inappropriate to legally view corporations was “persons.” Subscribe free to the column by sending an e-mail message to corp-focus-request@lists.essential.org with the text “subscribe.” http://oracle02.ilo.org/vpi/welcome Sponsored by the International Labor Organization, this web site offers a new Business and Social Initiatives Database, compiling Internet sources on employment and labor issues. A search feature allows visitors to retrieve information on specific companies, regions, and business sectors. This is one of the most comprehensive labor sites out there.

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