CorpWatch
CorpWatch is a research group based in San Francisco, California, USA. Its stated mission is to expose corporate malfeasance, and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency.
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Type | Environmental justice, human rights |
| Headquarters | California, United States |
| Leader | Pratap Chatterjee, Executive Director |
| Website | http://www.corpwatch.org/ |
Recent Projects
- Crocodyl: Pratap Chatterjee, author of Iraq Inc., Program Director and Managing Editor started a project called Crocodyl, with Phil Mattera of the Corporate Research Project, Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy and Tonya Hennessey of CorpWatch. The Project Manager of Crocodyl is Ian Elwood, and its Editors are Phil Mattera, Charlie Cray, Tonya Hennessey and Pratap Chatterjee.
- The Story Behind the Informant! As a part of Participant Media's continuing educational action campaign around corporate ethics and the movie "The Informant!," CorpWatch and Crocodyl.org have launched a case study of Archer Daniels Midland.[1]
gollark: A possible issue would be locking up your TCP connection or whatever with big downloads of images, but I guess you'd want a sensible way to offload those *anyway*.
gollark: I think it would probably make sense to make it so that your identity server serves your profile picture, but servers you chat in can cache it for clients and serve it over the chat connection on demand.
gollark: I was envisioning a somewhat more IRC-like thing where you commune directly with each server you want to join.
gollark: That would possibly expose your IP to it which might be bad.
gollark: How should profile pictures work? Presumably you'd want them globally set, so they'd be fetched from your identity server, but would each server you chat in have to proxy them or something?
See also
- Corporate Watch in the U.K.
References
- "The Story Behind The Informant!". Community.corpwatch.org. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
External links
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