corporations
Bad company
Submitted by Jess Worth on October 29, 2007 - 10:42am.
I’m just putting the finishing touches onto the next issue of the NI – ‘Corporate Responsibility Unmasked’. It investigates the current craze for multinationals to project images of themselves as caring, sharing, green and clean. Unsurprisingly, I’ve come to the conclusion that when you peel away the spray-on conscience, big business is just as power-hungry and profit-obsessed as ever. Read more »
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World Social Forum 2007: Warts and all
Submitted by Adam Ma'anit on January 21, 2007 - 11:56am.
NAIROBI. There are a few things about Kasarani stadium, the venue for the 2007 World Social Forum, that seem at odds with the spirit of this now institutionalised annual civil society gathering. The gates, razor wire and sentries stopping-and-searching at the main entrance certainly contradict the spirit of openness that the WSF purports to foster. So too do the regular patrols of red-beretted soldiers toting AK-47s. Read more »
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Why I joined a cult last weekend
Submitted by Jess Worth on November 28, 2006 - 2:45pm.
‘All hail McDonald’s! Marvel at its miraculous transformation of rainforests into obese children!’ thundered the ‘Rev E. Littlehelps’ as, watched by a crowd of amused and bemused shoppers, he dropped to his knees to worship the golden arches. ‘Oy mate, what are you doing?’ shouted an inquisitive teenager, trying to work out exactly how best to take the piss out of the Rev and his faithful followers, the iPostles.
And so I found myself last Saturday: with friends old and new, dressed in long white robes with meticulously-painted corporate logos and cheeky santa hats, prostrating myself in worship to the gleaming brands that dominate Oxford’s Cornmarket Street. It was international Buy Nothing Day www.adbusters.org/bnd and, given that I’ve just spent the last six months studying the terrifyingly wasteful whirlwind of global consumerism and its impacts for November’s issue of the NI (‘Ethical Shopping’), I felt the need to do something to mark the occasion. Read more »
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