SPECTACLE AND CORPORATE BEHAVIOR

SPECTACLE AND CORPORATE BEHAVIOR

The "Sweaties" are coming! Cast your Vote Today
Cast your vote on-line for in this year's Sweatshop Retailer Awards. Last year, retail giant Wal-Mart took the crown as "Sweatshop Retailer of the Year" for its worldwide labor rights abuses. This year, you can have a say by casting your vote on-line at: www.maquilasolidarity.org.

Global Exchange Web Site (press here). Resources for building an alternative global economy, from ACORN to Cooperative movements (press here).
Adbusters (press here) The "Culture Jammer Headquarters" takes aim at all things corporate and commercial. Adbusters also provides sobering information on environmental issues and offers alternativs for action.
ME- Millennium Series - (press here) - Six Parts - How did the Slef and the Age of Radical Selfishness and Individualism Evolve? "A thousand years ago, when the earth was reassuringly flat and the universe revolved around it, the ordinary person had no last name, let alone any claim to individualism. The self was subordinated to church and king. Then came the Renaissance explosion of scientific discovery and humanist insight and, as both cause and effect, the rise of individual self-consciousness."
Aug. 31, 2000 — With Ford and Firestone already under fire on several fronts, the federal government now says it knows of 88 deaths believed to be linked to faulty tires. ABC News.com (press here).
August 24, 2000 (press here) CBS Is Unexpected Winner in Ratings
Contest By BILL CARTER NY Times. "Survivor" had already
surpassed the ratings for other television events this year like the World Series, the N.B.A. finals, the N.C.A.A. men's basketball finals and the Grammy Awards.
January 24, 2000 (press here). The Mahatma's Message 'Think about tomorrow, but act for today,' Gandhi said. Not a bad millennial mantra. By Pranay Gupte Newsweek International, January 31, 2000 -- It's unlikely that business decision makers, society doyens and grass-roots activists bone up much on Mohandas K. Gandhi these days—but perhaps they should.
October 1, 1999- Rocket to Carry Pizza Hut Logo By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLAS -- Pizza Hut Inc. plans to put its new logo on a Russian rocket carrying a piece of the International Space Station (press here).

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