>================================================ >From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Robert Cohen, 70412,3303 >Date: Tue, Dec 2, 1997, 19:42 >RE: What's new! > >WHAT'S NEW ON CORPORATE WATCH <http://www.corpwatch.org> December 1, 1997 > >*****FEATURE #7: THE CORPORATE PLANET <http://www.corpwatch.org/home.html> > >Throughout the feature you will find cutting edge information and >commentary by leading analysts and advocacy organizations on various >pressing issues. > >Including: > >*THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT > >*CORPORATIONS AND THE KYOTO CLIMATE SUMMIT > >*THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CASINO AND ECONOMIC TURMOIL IN EAST ASIA. > >*LEAKED BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STRATEGY DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY PR WIZARDS >BURSON-MARSTELLER. > >This feature also contains various excerpts from Corporate Watch editorial >coordinator Joshua Karliner's brand new book, "THE CORPORATE PLANET: >ECOLOGY AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Sierra Club Books, 1997). > >There are also a series of fact sheets, and profiles of both the Europe's >Corporate Union and Japan Inc.. > >All of this comes together to begin to paint a picture of the current state >of the Corporate Planet. > >***ACTION ALERT!!! > >There are many actions to take to resist the corporate encroachment on the >earth. Perhaps the most important at this moment is to halt the OECD's >Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). We urge you to learn more about >this most disturbing accord through the "overview" section of the feature, >and to visit our >action page <http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/planet/mai.html> and join the >international campaign against the MAI. > >****CORPORATE WATCH'S 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Yes, we made it through our >first year, and we're celebrating. > >****CORPORATE WATCH'S NIKE SCOOP. The leaked Ernst & Young report we >released to the media, along with Corporate Watch partner organization >TRAC's own report "Smoke from a Hired Gun" and our exclusive photos from >inside a Nike plant in Vietnam received ample coverage in the news media >including: > > *The front page of The New York Times > > *Newsweek, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Business >Week, various sports sections, AP, Reuters, AFP, IPS, and many, many more. > >If you haven't seen them yet, check them out at ><http://www.corpwatch.org/nike/>. > >*****NEWS & ALERTS > >NEWS - UPDATES <http://www.corpwatch.org/corner/hotnews.html> > > KYOTO, JAPAN: Environmentalists Fear That The Final Treaty Could Be >Worse Than No Agreement At All > > USA: As Levi's Announces Layoffs Of Over 6000, Fuerza Unida Demands >Justice for San Antonio Workers > > GLOBAL ALERT: Peoples' Movements vs. "Free" Trade and the WTO - >Worldwide Conference- February 1998
