The Furious Spinner

The Global Exchange has listed the companies which are the worst human rights violators.

They are (drum roll please):

1. Caterpillar
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "contracting with known violators of human rights, enabling house demolition, supplying equipment that kills Palestinian civilians and American peace activists."

2. Chevron
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "environmental destruction, health violations, and violent killings."

3. Coca Cola
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "violent killings, kidnap and torture, water privatization, health violations, and discriminatory practices."

Here's an old favorite:

4. Dow Chemical Company
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "creation of chemical weapons, marketing poisonous chemicals, illegal dumping of toxins into populated areas, environmental destruction, health problems, death."

5. DynCorp (Haven't heard of them? Think mercenaries)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "causing health problems, environmental devastation and death; endangering lives; physically abusing individuals; sex trafficking."

This is sad:

6. Ford Motor Company (The CEO's lips say, "we're so good," while in reality they're so bad.)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "environmental degradation, climate change, fueling wars for oil."

7. KBR (part of Halliburton)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "Overcharging and providing unnecessary services on taxpayer's dollar, bribery, exploiting third country nationals."

8. Lockheed Martin (what Eisenhower warned us against: the military industrial complex)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "War profiteering, warmongering."

9. Monsanto (think monoculture; think monster with a spray bottle misting our planet in pesticides)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "displacement, health violations, and child labor," chemical warfare via pesticides.

10. Nestle USA
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "abusive child labor, repression of worker rights, aggressive marketing of harmful products, violation of national health and environmental laws."

11. Philip Morris (ain't it a drag, Phil)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "aggressively marketing lethal products."

12. Pfizer (think of Africa and HIV and all the people not getting the drugs they need)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "killer price-gouging."

13. Suez-Lyonnaise Des Eaux (finally one of the companies is not American owned)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "water privatization."

14. Wal-Mart (What would a list like this be without the largest corporation in the world?)
Their Human Rights Abuses are: "worker rights violations, labor discrimination, union busting.?

Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart? So anytime you need to hire a mercenary, buy a warplane, get your water cleaned, or buy something cheap for the holidays, you'll know where not to go.

Except for my snide remarks, all information about the human rights abuses comes from The Global Exchange. 0 comments

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