SLAPPs are "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Truly "frivolous" lawsuits that corporations file against people who are brave enough to criticize them. Another version of CASP is here.
Related Sites:
- Letter from American Academy of Emergency Medicine on SLAPPs
- Scientology and the Courts: one of the bigger abusers of SLAPPs under the guise of religious freedom.
- Libel and Scientists: The Penalties for Speaking Out.
- SLAPPs: Article from Current Affairs Bulletin
It's only corporate greed that keeps the H. B. Fuller Company from doing something to make their product safer. Thousands of Latin American children have become addicted to the noxious fumes of the company's glue. Also see the Special on Latin American Glue Abuse from the Star Tribune.
You'll never see Minnie the same way again. Great collection of links from disinformation.
Boycott Disney and Nike!For their ruthless exploitation of third world child labor. If Mickey Mouse is for children then why does Disney continue to hire 13-year-olds in Thailand for pennies?
Boycott Hewlett Packard!Until they refuse to go along with Big Brother Clinton's surveillance-disguised-as-encryption scheme.
Also see "Fighting McDonald's Grease" from Adbusters, and the McLibel Links from Disinformation.
A two-minute peek at the changing shape of the international division of labor in the age of high-tech pornography. Hear how one company, Atlantic Tele-Network, bought the phone company of the Republic of Guyana in order to run a million-dollar phone-sex scam. Ironically, while the sex lines are staffed with Guyanese women, residents of Guyana are blocked from calling the company's phone sex numbers.
Great site exposing some of the lies and abuses of copyright law in the U.S., focusing on truly frivolous lawsuits by corporations against web sites. In 1934 legislation was passed that represented a wholesale giveaway of the public consciousness and national imagination to the corporate elite. It is high time for the public to take it back!
Hear how one community is resisting Wal-Mart. Also read about the Bulldozer Blockade.
Motorola chips (like the one in my Mac) are most often the ones found in the American- and Chinese- made land mines which are responsible for death and maiming on an international scale. While Motorola's decision will do little besides improve their PR until truly significant public pressure is put on the governments and commercial interests responsible for mining worldwide, it is at least a brief gesture in the direction of corporate responsibility.
Related Links:
- Landmines: Basic Facts and Congressional Concerns. Report from the Congressional Research Service.
- Land Mine Arms Control: from the Institute for Defense Analysis.
- Anti-Personnel Mines: An Overview, prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- U.S. Policy Now an Obstacle to banning landmines worldwide. Report from Stephen D. Goose for the Arms Control Association.
- Humanitarian Demining Website: Help clear the mines! Sponsored by the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, Countermine Division.