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Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting
CORE Press Release May 28, 2004 by Congress of Racial Equality Congress of Racial Equality May 2004 For Immediate Release Contact: Niger Innis May 28, 2004 212-598-4000 Shareholder activists violate human rights, CORE charges at ExxonMobil annual meeting “I am delighted that shareholder activists are making human rights and corporate social responsibility keynote topics at this meeting,” […]
Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies
The battle over wind energy subsidies in America is heating up. After suffering defeat in four straight efforts to extend the Production Tax Credit, Big “Wind lobbyists have greatly expanded their efforts to secure enough Democrat and Republican votes to transfer still more billions from US taxpayers and ratepayers to industrial wind companies that would not survive without more handouts.
What an Unnecessary Disaster
Last month in Jonizi, South Africa, I watched my friend Jocky Gumede happily bounce his grandchild on his knee. The recent malaria epidemic had subsided, and Jocky was relieved that the child had escaped death — for this year, anyway. Jocky can’t erase the memory of the toll the disease has taken on his family. […]
Power to the people?
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation.com April 2004 On January 22, Citigroup directors and executives fell all over each other, rushing to claim their Ethical Oscar from the radical activist group, Rainforest Action Network. Henceforth, promised Citi, it would dramatically scale back investment in developing country projects that some might perceive as being socially or ecologically […]
Eco-Imperialism: The greatest threat to Africa’s future
by Paul K. Driessen Congress of Racial Equality Press Release “What about the people?” asks Fifi Kobusingye, a designer and businesswoman in Kampala, Uganda. “The mosquitoes are everywhere. You think you’re safe, and you’re not. Europeans and Americans can afford to deceive themselves about malaria and pesticides. But we can’t.” “If we don’t use DDT,” adds David […]
Give the Gift of Life
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation & Knight Ridder Tribune December 29, 2003 During this holiday season, many of us were focused even more than usual on helping people and making the world a better place. Seemingly endless solicitations bid us to support causes that seem eminently worthy. Well-fed, safe in our modern homes, minutes away […]
United Nations Day of Shame
by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko TechCentralStation.com October 2003 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems […]
Seeing Greenpeace
The IRS may board the Rainbow Warrior by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online October 2003 NEW YORK, NY, October 2003 Greenpeace soon may find itself less green – in the pocketbook. Public Interest Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based charitable oversight group, filed a “tax challenge” with the commissioner of the Internal […]
Environmental Working Group: A scare a day
CHURCHVILLE, VA, October 2003 — Suppose your gracious new neighbor took you aside one day and quietly warned that serving non-organic fruits and vegetables to your family was endangering your kids’ health. Suppose she offered a professional-looking ‘index of danger’ showing your supermarket’s peaches, apples, spinach, celery, and potatoes were all too dangerous to eat. […]
Not so quiet on the Northern Front
by Deroy Murdock Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online September 2003 CANCUN, Mexico, September 2003 – “Look at how they’ve destroyed this place,” says Gustavo Herrera, a local cab driver. Herrera slowly shakes his head back and forth as he scans the barricade the federales, or Mexican federal police, erected at the northern […]