#public_campaign

Anya Schiffrin: “The link between advocacy and journalism is older than many of us think.”
►http://multinationales.org/Anya-Schiffrin-The-link-between-advocacy-and-journalism-is-older-th

A number of international tax avoidance scandals have come out over recent years, highlighting the important role played by investigative journalists in denouncing the corrupt practices of governments and corporations. Investigative journalism has been playing this role for decades, as the American journalist and teacher Anya Schiffrin explains. Schiffrin is the author of a collection of investigative articles on different issues across the globe. This interview was first published in our (...)

#Investigations

/ #freedom_of_expression_and_of_the_press, #public_campaign, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, human (...)

#human_rights
“►https://multinationales.org/Democratic-Information-in-an-Age-of-Corporate-Power”
“►https://www.icij.org”
“►https://www.occrp.org/en”
“▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Morel”
“▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker”
“►http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175886/tomgram%3A_anya_schiffrin,_who_knew_we_were_living_in_the_golden_age_of”
“►http://gijn.org/2016/06/20/a-golden-age-of-global-muckraking”

Naomi Klein: “If you can marry an economic justice agenda with climate action, people will fight for that future”
▻http://multinationales.org/Naomi-Klein-If-you-can-marry-an-economic-justice-agenda-with-climat

Given the massive inequalities generated by capitalism and the ecological urgency of #climate_change, “everything can change”, Naomi Klein claims in a new book. Provided we do not “give in to despair”, because “too many lives are at stake”, and “fight for a more just economic system”. The Canadian anti-globalization activist and essayist is famous for her inspired criticism of capitalism: No Logo denounced the tyranny of global brands, and The Shock Doctrine the brutality of neoliberal (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, #Fossil_fuels, #trade_and_investment_agreements, #public_campaign, climate change, #greenhouse_gas, #social_impact, environmental (...)

#environmental_impact
“►https://vimeo.com/124380476

#Areva's Jaitapur Nuclear Project: Another Catastrophe in the Offing?
▻http://multinationales.org/Areva-s-Jaitapur-Nuclear-Project

The Indian Government is planning to build the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, in the Western state of Maharasthra. The plant is to be based on Areva’s EPR technology. The site is a biodiversity hotspot and is also known to have high seismic activity. According to critics, the project is an untested, expensive and dangerous gamble with health and land, which is being vehemently opposed. Areva and the Indian government are currently negotiating to finalise their agreement. (...)

#Investigations

/ #zoom, #Energy, #India, Areva, #Nuclear_Energy, Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL), #public_campaign, #local_communities, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, nuclear (...)

#Nuclear_Power_Corporation_of_India_NPCIL_ #nuclear_energy
“►http://www.ritimo.org”
“►http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ne120311COVERSTORY.asp”
“►http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/one-killed-as-jaitapur-protest-turns-violent/article1706916.ece”
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Ilana Solomon: “In terms of climate and #Energy policy, TTIP takes us exactly in the wrong direction”
▻http://multinationales.org/Ilana-Solomon-In-terms-of-climate

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the risks of the transatlantic #Trade_and_Investment partnership (TTIP) project for #Europe and its regulations. But the consequences on the other side of the Atlantic could be just as dramatic, particularly in the boost it could give to further large-scale shale oil and gas developments. Interview with Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club’s “responsible trade” programme. How did the Sierra Club, one of the most long-standing environmental (...)

#Investigations

/ #Lobbying, #Fossil_fuels, Trade and Investment, Europe, #United_States, #energy, #trade_and_investment_agreements, #public_campaign, #shale_gas, #greenhouse_gas, #environmental_impact, energy, #climate_change, #regulations_and_norms, #influence, european (...)

#european_union
“▻http://www.bastamag.net/Transatlantic-trade-a-bust-for”

Forced Privatizations in #Greece : Suez Eyes Taking Over the #Water Services of Athens and Thessaloniki
▻http://multinationales.org/Forced-Privatizations-in-Greece

As a condition for the Troika’s financial assistance, Greece has been forced to implement a set of drastic austerity measures, including the privatization of several state-owned companies. The public #water utilities of Athens and Thessaloniki are among the targets. Both are profitable companies, which no one there wishes to see pass into private hands. But the Greek government and its creditors seem bent on imposing policy whose economic merits and democratic legitimacy seem rather dubious. (...)

#Investigations

/ #A_la_une, #Water_and_Sanitation, Greece, #Suez_environnement, Water, water, #public_campaign, #financialisation, #influence, #european_union, collective (...)

#collective_services
« ►http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-277_fr.htm »
« ►http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/suez-environnement-raises-stake-in-rome-utility-to-12-5-.html »
« ▻http://www.savegreekwater.org/?lang=en »
« ►http://www.bastamag.net/Quand-Francois-Hollande-encourage »
« ►http://europeanwater.org/images/pdf/Letter%20to%20EYATH%20Bidders.pdf »
« ►http://www.epsu.org/a/10132 »
« ►http://www.epsu.org/a/10284 »
« ►http://www.epsu.org/a/10088 »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/27/greece-trade-battleground-foreign-investors-swoop »
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#Atos Healthcare: failing UK’s most vulnerable
▻http://www.multinationales.org/Atos-Healthcare-failing-UK-s-most

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members,” Gandhi said. And the UK is not measuring well. The government is failing society’s disabled, ill, and most vulnerable. The Work Capacity Assessment (WCA), which is being carried out by the French firm Atos Healthcare on behalf of the British government, is proving to be an ineffective, costly process which is pushing many to the verge of despair. This article was initially published by OpenDemocracy (...)

#Investigations

/ #United_Kingdom, #Information_Technology_Consulting, Atos, #public_campaign, #human_rights, #ethics, #privatisation, #social_impact, #social_security, collective (...)

#collective_services
►http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/jennifer-kennedy/department-of-work-and-pensions-and-atos-healthcare-still-failing-uk'
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/atos-contract-does-not-offer-value-for-money-says-national-audit-offi
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wq21j
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Remembering French Investments in Apartheid #South_Africa
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article228.html

With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the “global” tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in #France for the South African leader and the struggle against apartheid he embodied. However, when Mandela was still laying in jail for life, things were very different. France and its major corporations were among the most loyal supporters of Pretoria’s racist regime, to which they sold arms, nuclear and industrial technologies, in #Total (...)

#Investigations

/ #Defence_and_Security, #A_la_une, #Energy, South Africa, France, #Alcatel-Lucent, #Alstom, #ArcelorMittal, #Areva, #EADS, #EDF, #Groupe_Dassault, #Lagardère, #PSA_Peugeot_Citroën, #Renault, #Safran, Total, #Wendel, #armament, #public_campaign, #international_law, human (...)

#human_rights #ethics #international_solidarity
►http://www.lacimade.org
►http://www.ritimo.org
►http://www.peuples-solidaires.org
►http://www.reseau-ipam.org/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=47
►http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20120615182920
►http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/Rene-Felber-fustige-les-banques-suisses-sur-l-apartheid-/story/16707094
►http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/tiers_0040-7356_1979_num_20_77_2853
▻http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1964/64B09_117_engl.pdf
►http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-13/local/me-4509_1_shell-oil
►http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/tiers_0040-7356_1979_num_20_77_2859
►http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Lawlawsuits/Lawsuitsregulatoryaction/LawsuitsSelectedcases/ApartheidreparationslawsuitsreSoAfrica

#Water management: Berlin no longer wants Veolia
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article186.html

Veolia has left Berlin. The French #water giant publically announced this week that it had come to an agreement with authorities in Berlin with regards to selling back its stake in Berlinwasser, the German capital’s water service. Veolia has presented this stepping down as an effect of its “cost-cutting plan”, necessary to pay off its debt. The French press uncritically disseminated this version of events. Behind the PR veil, it’s a completely different story. Veolia actually left the German (...)

#News

/ #Germany, Water, #Veolia_environnement, #Water_and_Sanitation, water, #collective_services, #public-private_partnership, public (...)

#public_campaign
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