CorporateWatch.org.uk
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Description
Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. We are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. Corporate Watch is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world.
Why watch corporations?
In the conventional economic view corporations are simply neutral providers of the goods and services that people want. They exist to serve society's needs (and make a tidy profit in the process). This view dismisses corporate crimes as mere accidents, at worst errors of judgement, which will ultimately be corrected, since market forces have everyone's best interests at heart. Don't they?
There is another view – increasingly developed by alternative media, the more courageous radical thinkers and grassroots groups around the world. In this view, corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose; the servant and useful goods-providing machine has become the master and the only true citizen. The rights of corporations – disguised as 'encouraging foreign investment', 'promoting free trade', 'protecting the national interest' now take precedence over human rights, community interests, and the interests of the planet itself. Corporate Watch is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world. We are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successfully forcing corporations to back down from environmentally destructive or socially divisive projects and dragging the corrupt links between business and power, economics and politics into the spotlight, against the resistance of the complacent, corporate-led mainstream media.
Languages
English
Address
- 16B Cherwell St, Oxford
- Oxfordshire OX4 1BG UNITED KINGDOM
Contact
- The Corporate Watch Co-operative Ltd
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- Alexa: CorporateWatch.org.uk
