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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
- 21 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
- 27 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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Send a Message to Coke's CEO: Stop Interfering in National Park Policy! ACTION
Business  (tags: corporate, business, ethics, policy, money, Coke, national parks, consumers, dishonesty )

Nancy
- 28 days ago - act.stopcorporateabuse.org
Decisions about park policy should be made transparently by park employees and the public they serve, not by a global beverage corporation behind closed doors. I stand with more than 40,000 park goers and 150 groups across the country to support the Gold
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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
- 18 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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Supplements Powered By the Sun
Business  (tags: health, supplements, family, prevention, Andrew Lessman, ProCap Labs, solar power, treatment, environment, business, consumers )

Nancy
- 19 days ago - procapslabs.com
If you take supplements and prefer to support environmentally conscious businesses, have a look. I've been utilizing these superior products for years. Best deals are through HSN shopping network.
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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
- 23 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.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL H& M AND THE GAP-- Avoid Further Tragedies--Produce Guilt-Free Clothing in Bengladesh
Business  (tags: world, society, ethics, business, supply chain, work conditions, labor safety, Bengladesh, corporate repsonsibility )

Cal
- 14 days ago - avaaz.org
We've all seen the horrific images of hundreds of innocent women burned or crushed to death in factories while making our clothes. In the next few days we can get companies to stop it happening again.
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Tell Chevron's Board of Directors to FIRE CEO JOHN WATSON! ACTION LINK
Business  (tags: death, humanrights, business, Brazil, Keystone XL, Chevron, John Watson, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, world )

Nancy
- 4 days ago - care2.com
Imagine you were the head of Chevron. In the first couple years since you took over the company its reputation has been continually tarnished by your own actions as well as environmental and human rights crimes. Would you expect to keep your job?
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In Montana, Ranchers Line Up Against Coal
Business  (tags: economy, dishonesty, energy, politics, society, news, business, corporate, money, environment, usa )

Cal
- 25 days ago - latimes.com
A proposed mine -- and a railway extension to carry it out -- would put their land at risk for an energy plan that mainly benefits Asia, ranchers say. But they're in the minority.
19 comments
Nestle Patents the Fennel Flower? Corporate Trolls and Privatization
Business  (tags: nestle, patents, privatize, water, capitalism, eqialmoney, elf, equallife, environment, endangered, government, humans, nature, world, politics, ecosystems, globalwarming, corporate, dishonesty, economy, ethics, money )

Bernard
- 28 days ago - paintersjourneytolife.wordpress.com
and while ordinary people do ordinary things, corporations like Nestlé are are privatizing drinking water and trying to patent plants like the Fennel Flower. The human race will NOT stop this -- that is certain!
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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
- 22 days ago - commondreams.org
Group of global cancer experts criticizes exorbitant drug costs that prevent access to life-saving treatments
18 comments
Tell Facebook: Attacking The Environment Is Not Pro-Immigrant ACTION
Business  (tags: immigration, government, usa, zuckerberg, facebook, ecosystems, environment, destruction )

Nancy
- 12 days ago - act.presente.org
One of the first actions taken by the new political group founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been to spend over $1 million in advertisements attacking the environment.
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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
BAD BUSINESS: Samsung Admits to Using Tin Linked to Child Labor, Deforestation; Apple Mum on Sourcing
Business  (tags: world, politics, children, child labor, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, government, ethics, ethics, environment, dishonesty, corporate, abuse, law, politics, society, news, money )

Cal
- 26 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Mobile device giant Samsung has admitted to using tin sourced from a controversial mining operation on the Indonesian island of Bangka, where unregulated mining kills 150 miners a year
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Reduce, Reuse, Rebrand? Coca-Cola and Chicago Team Up to Greenwash - TAKE ACTION!
Business  (tags: Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel, Coca-Cola, Greenwashing, community advertising for Coca-Cola, children and advertising, sugary beverage, positive PR )

Judy
- 26 days ago - commondreams.org
What if you woke up one morning to learn that your community had become enlisted to advertise for Coca-Cola? You didn't have a choice. People in neighborhoods across your city were told the same thing. That's basically what happened in the city of Chicago
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