First, a request. We'd like to build the electronic circulation of Focus on the Corporation. If members of the list could pass the notice below to friends, colleagues and relevant lists, we'd appreciate it.
Also, we are working with Z magazine's ZNet to establish a forum where readers of the column can post comments and where Russell and I will respond. We've received many interesting e-mail notes over the past few months; this will give people a way to share their comments with a broader audience, if they choose. We'll post information on this in the next few weeks.
Robert Weissman Essential Information | Internet: rob at essential.org
LISTSERVE ANNOUNCEMENT: FOCUS ON THE CORPORATION
Corp-Focus is a moderated listserve which distributes the weekly column "Focus on the Corporation," co-authored by Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, and Robert Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine.
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Focus on the Corporation scrutinizes the multinational corporation -- the most powerful institution of our time. Once a week, it reports and comments critically on corporate actions, plans, abuses and trends. Written with a sharp edge and occasional irreverency, Focus on the Corporation covers:
* The double standards which excuse corporations for behavior (e.g., causing injury, accepting welfare) widely considered criminal or shameful when done by individuals; * Globalization and corporate power; * Trends in corporate economic blackmail, political influence and workplace organization; * Industry-wide efforts to escape regulation, silence critics, employ new technologies or consolidate business among a few companies; * Specific, extreme examples of corporate abuses: destruction of communities, trampling of democracy, poisoning of air and water; * Issues, such as tort reform, of across-the-board interest to business; and * The corporatization of our culture.
Please post this notice on relevant lists, and accept our apologies for cross-posting.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)