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11/21/07 Sweatshop Crosses, AP. Crosses being sold by St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity Church are linked to a Chinese factory with sweatshop conditions. An effective target for Charles Kernaghan, who gets credit for circumstantial links connecting a sweatshop with the product and the product to the churches. The churches were caught with no knowledge of their supply chain. No doubt this will change quickly.
11/15/07 EPA Staffers Form PEER Group to Oppose Testing Pesticides on Children and Others, Common Dreams.
11/12/07 In the tradition of John Banzhaf of GWU Law School or Bob Gnaizda of Public Advocates, NYU Law School’s Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is addressing the privacy issues involved in the Google-Doubleclick merger. Law School Professor Marc Rotenberg spoke on this issue to a packed hall at NYU's Stern School of Business on November 12.
11/1/07 Ethical blogging. Carnegie Council for International Affairs. Comments to this post get to do some blogrolling.
11/12/07 Primitive Impulses of War, James Carroll, Boston Globe.
10/26/07 Marketers Use Trickery to Evade No-Call Lists, WSJ. This is another aspect of the privacy issue.
09/28/07 President Clinton Concludes 3rd Annual Meeting of the CGI, Clinton Global Initiative. CGI members made 245 commitments to global health, education, poverty reduction, or energy and climate change. They were individuals, foundations, and these companies: Petra Group, YouTube, Fabindia, Geothermal Power Company of Iceland, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Heinz, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Swiss Re, Gap, Jacob Fruitfield Food, McKinsey, Starbucks, EnBW, Bank of America, Pacific Gas & Electric, FourWinds Capital Management, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Ameresco, Wal-Mart, Holcim, Condé Nast, Britannia Industries, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Liquidnet, JLF Corporation, Coca-Cola, Aisiks Capital, Infinity Bio-Energy, Hall Financial Group & Hall Wines, Verdeo Group, PepsiCo, MM Project Consultants, Eagle Capital, CoolerInc., Albright Group, Philips. |
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