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12/10/96
CORPORATE WATCH WEB SITE ONLINE
http://www.corpwatch.org

A new watchdog website dedicated to monitoring the activities of
transnational corporations went online today.

Corporate Watch is designed to provide journalists, activists and
policy makers around the world with up to date information and
analysis on social, ecological and economic impacts of
transnational corporations.

"We intend to be an online clearinghouse for information on these
companies," explained Corporate Watch editorial board member
Antonio Diaz.

The site will also serve as a mini-online magazine that runs
features on related issues.

"One of the reasons we've created Corporate Watch is to keep an eye
on all those Fortune 500 companies that are jumping on the World
Wide Web bandwagon," remarked the site's editorial coordinator,
Joshua Karliner.  "That's why our first Feature focuses on the
corporatization of the Internet itself."

Entitled "The Battle for the Future of the Internet," the Feature
includes commentary from Hot Wired executive producer Gary Wolf,
media and technology critic Jerry Mander, NetAction director Audrie
Krause, and Brazilian Internet activist Carlos Afonso.

The Corporate Watch site also includes:

     *An eight part nuts and bolts manual on how to research
transnational corporations.

     *Monthly "greenwash" awards given out by Corporate Watch and
the environmental group Greenpeace to the most outrageous corporate
"environmental" advertisements.

     *An Image Gallery, with a permanent environmental art
collection and rotating monthly exhibits.  This month's exhibit
features images from Bhopal, India, commemorating the 12th
Anniversary of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster.

     *In-depth analysis on corporate globalization, including
reports from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and
the New Delhi, India-based Public Interest Research Group.

     *News from various sources, including Multinational Monitor,
the Malaysia-based Third World Network, Ecuador-based Oil Watch.

     *Direct Links to the Corporate Watch Affiliate Group--a
collection of organizations which provide in depth research
services.

     *Links to hundreds of other websites with analysis of or
information produced by transnational corporations.


Corporate Watch is a joint project of TRAC--the Transnational
Resource and Action Center and IGC--the Institute for global
communications.


contact: Joshua Karliner
tel: 415-561-6567
fax: 415-561-6493
email: trac@igc.org
web:   http://www.corpwatch.org

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