corporate_crime – Citizen Reporter

bm148 General Motors and the Death of Public Transport

Around the 1930s, General Motors decided, together with other major corporations related to the auto industry, to form front companies which would buy up urban train and trolley lines in the United States (and attempted some Canada). From there trolleys were gradually killed off and disappeared. But who is responsible really?

Some Links:

The Trial: United States vs. National City Lines
Testimony from Bradford Snell
Criticism of the theory that General Motors was responsible
Some propaganda photos from that period

bm138 CocaCola and Human Rights Violations Worldwide

To call it a soda company would be an understatement. There is no corner of the world where the name isn’t known, and in the last decade, communities in places like Kerela, India, have shed new light on the business practices of the cocacola company. They site cases of human rights violations and environmental terrorism. Cocacola, meanwhile, says its quite the opposite.. so who’s opinion do the facts support?

Background Briefing from Australian Public Radio, Episode on Water in India

Common Dreams Article on Dasani Water
CorpWatch on CokeIndia, Uzbekistan