Corporate Ethics International : Audio & Video

It's Labor Day. Over 100 years ago, workers risked life and limb to get things like a five day work week, an eight hour day, and the right to organize. Walmart, the country's #1 retailer, and one of the biggest corporations in the world, is doing its best to dismantle those gains one by one.

BENMedia: Corporations supporting the criminalization of immigrants in the U.S.

Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico and in the U.S., working with member organizations in battles for workers’ and human rights.

BREAKING NEWS: Independent testing commissioned by the Food Rights Network has found toxic contaminants in San Francisco's sewage sludge "compost".
Source Watch

Watch the CBS 5 KPIX August 10, 2010, report in the top of the left column below for a startling report on how San Francisco is violating its own precautionary principle law by dumping toxic sludge on city gardens.

RethinkAlberta, Michael Marx on Vancouver Co-op Radio
Vancouver Co-op Radio

An interview with Michael Marx about the RethinkAlberta Campaign

India's Poor Seek Wealth in E-Waste
SVTC

"New America Now" sat down with Sunita Sohrabji of India West Newspaper and Sheila Davis, the executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for a 2-part discussion on the e-waste issue in India and spotlight the SVTC documentary "Citizens at Risk". Below is part 2, featuring SVTC.

Tom Greco: The Geography of a Recession, Unemployment by County [video]
Chelsea Green

Tom shared this video on his informative blog Beyond Money, a great place on the web for learning about alternative currencies and the problems caused by business-as-usual economics.

Anti-Oilsands Campaign - Alberta Primetime
Alberta Primetime

A network of international citizen lobby groups has launched a gritty campaign against Alberta, telling tourists to "rethink" a trip to our province because it is home to, “the tar sands and the dirtiest oil on earth”.

BENMedia: Aaron Viles of The Gulf Restoration Network

Adrienne Maree Brown, Executive Director of Ruckus and Octavia Butler too!
by Democracy Now!, Raj Patel

Featured this week at the start of the US Social Forum

Industrial Fishing Like You've Never Seen it Before (Video)
by Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger

About 5 minutes into the video above, a film crew dives in the South Pacific waters and films for what is probably the first time ever (that's what they claim, anyway) the inside of a gigantic purse seine tuna net.