Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 09:34:51 GMT
From: itusc-AT-gn.apc.org (Keith Standring)
Subject: M-G: New website


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Dear Comrades and Friends,
The following announcement is re-distributed by us in the interests of the
workers' movement.
Keith Standring


CORPORATE WATCH WEB SITE ONLINE
http://www.corpwatch.org

A new watchdog website dedicated to monitoring the
activities of transnational corporations went online
today.

Corporate Watch is designed to provide journalists,
activists and policy makers around the world with up to
date information and analysis on social, ecological and
economic impacts of transnational corporations.

"We intend to be an online clearinghouse for
information on these companies," explained Corporate
Watch editorial board member Antonio Diaz.

The site will also serve as a mini-online magazine that
runs features on related issues.

"One of the reasons we've created Corporate Watch is to
keep an eye on all those Fortune 500 companies that are
jumping on the World Wide Web bandwagon," remarked the
site's editorial coordinator, Joshua Karliner.  "That's
why our first Feature focuses on the corporatization of
the Internet itself."

Entitled "The Battle for the Future of the Internet,"
the Feature includes commentary from Hot Wired
executive producer Gary Wolf, media and technology
critic Jerry Mander, NetAction director Audrie Krause,
and Brazilian Internet activist Carlos Afonso.

The Corporate Watch site also includes:

     *An eight part nuts and bolts manual on how to
research transnational corporations.

     *Monthly "greenwash" awards given out by Corporate
Watch and the environmental group Greenpeace to the
most outrageous corporate "environmental"
advertisements.

     *An Image Gallery, with a permanent environmental
art collection and rotating monthly exhibits.  This
month's exhibit features images from Bhopal, India,
commemorating the 12th Anniversary of the Union Carbide
Gas Disaster.

     *In-depth analysis on corporate globalization,
including reports from the Institute for Policy Studies
in Washington DC and the New Delhi, India-based Public
Interest Research Group.

     *News from various sources, including
Multinational Monitor, the Malaysia-based Third World
Network, Ecuador-based Oil Watch.

     *Direct Links to the Corporate Watch Affiliate
Group--a collection of organizations which provide in
depth research services.

     *Links to hundreds of other websites with analysis
of or information produced by transnational
corporations.


Corporate Watch is a joint project of TRAC--the
Transnational Resource and Action Center and IGC--the
Institute for global communications.


contact: Joshua Karliner
tel: 415-561-6567
fax: 415-561-6493
email: trac-AT-igc.org
web:   http://www.corpwatch.org

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Keith Standring    (itusc-AT-gn.apc.org)





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