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Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh ACTION
Business  (tags: Walmart, Bangladesh, corruption, Penney's, corporate, factory conditions, H&M, Gap, fire, death )

Nancy
- 22 days ago - org.credoaction.com
The disaster at Rana Plaza is now the deadliest incident in the garment industry in known history. Two of the brands identified in documents found in the rubble are sold at JC Penney. Photo by ILRF
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Bangladesh Garment-Factory Collapse Kills Nearly 100 People
Business  (tags: garment factory, Bangladesh, death, injured, business, ethics, humanrights, corruption )

Nancy
- 28 days ago - ecouterre.com
An eight-story facility that housed several garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 96 people, injuring more than 800, and trapping a yet-unknown number under the mass of concrete rubble, according to officials.
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Don't Sell Out to the Koch Brothers ACTION
Business  (tags: Koch Brothers, Tribune, media, news, finance, investments, money, corruption, corporate )

Nancy
- 19 days ago - democracyforamerica.com
DFA and Sen. Bernie Sanders are joining forces today. We're calling on the Tribune Company to not sell out to the Koch Brothers.
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Walmart, H&M and Gap: Do Your Part to Stop the Murders of Garment Workers in Bangladesh ACTION LINK
Business  (tags: Walmart, Bangladesh, corruption, corporate, factory conditions, H&M, Gap, fire, death )

Nancy
- 24 days ago - care2.com
Join us in calling on Walmart, H&M and Gap, the largest buyers of clothing made in Bangladesh, to make immediate safety improvements in their supplier factories by joining the legally-binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement.
22 comments
Pharmaceutical Extortion: Pay Up, or Die
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, drugs, economy, finance, government, lies, marketing, money, Pharmaceutical companies, politics, society )

Kit
- 23 days ago - commondreams.org
Group of global cancer experts criticizes exorbitant drug costs that prevent access to life-saving treatments
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh
Business  (tags: SAFETY CONDITIONS, safety conditions, labor, Bengladesh factory collapse, world, corporate, corruption, ethics, business, politics, news )

Cal
- 21 days ago - org.credoaction.com
Take immediate steps to deploy safety improvements in your supplier factories by joining the legally binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement and pay the compensation owed to injured workers and the families of workers killed while sewing yo
23 comments
How One Tweet Almost Broke US Financial Markets
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, debt, dishonesty, economy, finance, lies, marketing, money, politics, society, technology )

Kit
- 27 days ago - motherjones.com
When a phony Associated Press tweet reported explosions in the White House, Wall Street's computers reacted as if it were real.
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'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, farming, finance, government, investments, money, politics, society, sustainabledevelopment )

Kit
- 27 days ago - commondreams.org
The freedom-busting terrorists in this fight are not those who reveal the abuse, but the soulless factory-farm profiteers in the corporate suites and the cynical lawmakers who serve them.
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OP-ED: The Biggest "Takers" and Societal Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor
Business  (tags: rights, ethics, class warfare, economy, americans, corruption, society, news, politics, usa, ethics, dishonesty, abuse, world, society, dishonesty, corporate, corruption, business, corruption, society, politics, usa, world )

Cal
- 8 days ago - truth-out.org
In the past twenty years, corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percent has dropped by half. The payroll tax, paid by workers, has doubled.In effect, corporations have decided to let middle-class workers pay for national investments th
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TAKE ACTION NOW! THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE U.S. TOMATO INDUSTRY
Business  (tags: corporate, dishonesty, business, abuse, politics, exploitation, minimum wage workers, corporate corporate election spending, labor, usa, ethics, corruption, usa, news )

Cal
- 13 days ago - e-activist.com
Florida's tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America's 'ground zero for slavery.' Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day for
24 comments
5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society
Business  (tags: corruption, money, society, capitalism, lies, dishonesty )

Beverly
- 16 days ago - alternet.org
The predators on our society will scream about threats to "freedom" as soon as we start going after them, but it's just about trying to protect profits.
24 comments
TAKE ACTION: TELL THE TRIBUNE COMPANY: STAY KOCH-FREE
Business  (tags: corruption, ethics, politics )

Beverly
- 29 days ago - current.com
Tell Tribune Company CEO Peter Liguori: Do not sell the Tribune Company media properties to David and Charles Koch, or any other climate-denying propagandists.
36 comments
Mozilla to Take Legal Action Against Spy Tech Firm Over
Business  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, humanrights, government, ethics, society, politics, world, technology, business, consumers, dishonesty, corruption, marketing, society )

JL
- 17 days ago - slate.com
Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, is well-known for battling online tracking.Now it's set to launch a fresh privacy-protecting offensive: taking on a controversial surveillance company that has been accused of selling spyware to authoritarian re
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New Details on JPMorgan's Electricity Manipulation Prompt Renewed Call for Key Executive's Termination
Business  (tags: lies, law, money, society, usa, corruption, corporate, abuse, business, americans, consumers, cover-up, dishonesty, ethics, finance, government, crime, dishonesty, government )

JL
- 6 days ago - citizenvox.org
staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) claim that Ms. Masters was aware of the company's manipulation strategies, helped to conceal the schemes and lied to state & federal officials when confronted about the company's manipulation stra
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