10-01-2010, 11:40 AM
Plenty of good links some dead but use The Way Back Machine for those. From who is getting corporate subsidies, to who owns what brand, weapons production databases, government statistics, lobby watch and directories, Freedom of Information help, online encyclopedia for legal researchers, free Lexis Nexis search. Plenty more in this treasure trove of links. From Derrick Jensen via Ed Jewett. Thanks Ed.:ciao:
Topics A to Z:
ACTIVIST RESEARCH -- GUIDES & GROUPS THAT DO ACTIVIST RESEARCH
Activist Research Manualsfrom Public Information Network.
Association for Independent Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility Research (Europe)
Center for Corporate Policy
Citizen Muckrakingfrom the Center for Public Intergrity.
Corp Watch (US)
Corporate Watch (UK) includes DIY Guide: How to Research Companies
Crocdyl Wiki database of corporate profiles
DataCenter
Dirt Diggers Digest from Philip Mattera
eActivist many social issues and a worldwide directory of politicians.
Endgame.org you're already there!
Environmental Background Information Center
How to Do Corporate Research Online from the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First
Internet Guide to Power Structure Research: Corporations
Jay's Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources Directory
Multinationals Resource Center
Probe International
Public Information Network you're already there!
Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
Raising Hell from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Researching Corporations from Corporate Watch.
Sourcewatch Center for Media and Democracy project documenting public relations and propaganda
ADVERTISING and COMMERCIALISM
100 Leading National Advertisers [PDF Adobe software]
Adbusters
Commercial Alert mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
Consumer Trap blog from Michael Dawson exposing capitalism, marketing & market totalitarianism
Obligation, Inc "reminding businesses and governments of their responsibility to children."
Center for Commercial Free Public Education
Center for Media & Democracy publishers of PR Watch.
Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education
Citizens Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools
Telemarketing Do Not Call List 1-888-382-1222. Firms that call numbers on the list face fines of up to $11,000 for each violation.
AGRIBUSINESS see also FOOD, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, etc
Agribusiness Accountability Initiative of the Center of Concern and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
Agribusiness Centerof the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is a clearinghouse for information on agribusiness corporations, news, and activist campaigns.
Agriculture of the Middle
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project Al Krebs, the master of agribusiness muckraking, monitors the economic, social and environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities, ecosystems and consumers.
Farm Subsidy Database from Environmental Working Group.
GM Watch monitors genetically modified foods.
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Ram's Horn information and analysis of the whole food system, including food security, biotechnology & genetic engineering, corporate ownership, agriculture and farmers, international trade, organic standards & pesticides, government regulation, and consumer's rights.
USDA PACA database of fruit and vegetable growers
ALTERNATIVES
Most of the Endgame website is focused on exposing the dysfunctions in industrial culture.
Here are some organizations which focus on practical alternatives and postitive action.
Earth Charter Community Summits website has a large Resource Directory.
Breakthrough Institute
Community-Wealth from The Democracy Collaborative
Earth Share
E.F. Schumacher Society and SmallIsBeautiful.org
Green Challenge
Institute for Local Self-Reliance and New Rules Project
Local Harvest
New Road Map Foundation
OneWorld
Simple Living Network
Sustainability Institute
Sustainable Communities Network
YES! Magazine
DECENTRALISTS
Lao Tzu
Aristotle
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Jefferson
M.K. Gandhi
G.K. Chesterton
E.F. Schumacher
Leopold Kohr
Wendell Berry
Ralph Borsodi
Jane Jacobs
Kirkpatrick Sale
David Morris
The Diggers
ANTITRUST see MONOPOLY
AUTOMOBILES
Sprawl-Busters
Culture Change / Sustainable Energy Institute and the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium.
BANKS
BankTrack network of civil society organisations tracking the operations of the private financial sector and its effect on people and the planet.
Bank Information Center
Berne Declaration monitors the role of Swiss corporations, banks, and government agencies.
IFIwatchnet monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks.
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Rainforest Action Network Global Finance Campaign
Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
Endgame bank links
BIOTECH
Campaign for Food Safety
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
Human Genome Project
Organic Consumers Association
Primal Seeds untangling ourselves from the monocult.
ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration)formerly RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International).
Union of Concerned Scientists
BOYCOTTS see also CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
Boycott Board
Boycott Action News from Co-Op America.
Envirolink Boycotts
Karma Banque
National Boycott List from AFL-CIO.
BRAND NAMES
FindOwnerSearch Brand name owner search by Uchisearch
CAMPAIGN FINANCE see POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS & LOBBYING
CHILDREN & CORPORATIONS see ADVERTISING
CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen explores the spiritual, psychological, cultural, economic, and environmental underpinnings of our culture's unbiquitous destructiveness and asks for sane, effective, and appropriate responses.
Primitivism: Index of Articles
Social Criticism Review1,000 online readings on modern society and its ills, with a focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific-technical complex.
COMMERCIALISM see ADVERTISING
COMPUTERS see TECHNOLOGY
CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
see also ADVERTISING and BOYCOTTS and CORPORATIONS RANKED BY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Commodity Fetish Times
Consumers Digest
Ethical Consumer looks behind the brand names and helps you to vote with your wallet.
Council on Economic PrioritiesFrom the folks who brought you "Shopping for a Better World." CEP ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach. It's all relative, so Chevron and Citicorp have been on their Honor Roll.
Recalls.gov database of recalled consumer products from the Consumer Products Safety Commission, Food and Drug Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard, and Agriculture Department.
CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS
Association Transnationale citizen portal on corporations (English, French and Spanish versions).
Aurora Institute
Business Ethics Network is a project of the Corporate Ethics International which builds the capacity of its members in their corporate campaign work, by providing education, facilitating collaboration, and increasing recognition of their campaign successes.
Campaignstrategy.org from Chris Rose.
Center for Corporate Policy working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Corporate Power Information Center
Corporate Responsibility Coalition in the UK.
Corporate Watch (UK) monitors social and environmental impacts of large corporations.
CorpWatch (US)
Global Exchange
Global Response
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CORPORATE CHARTERS & THE CORPORATION AS AN INSTITUTION
State-level corporation records summary and liks from LLRX
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund includes a Manual For Revoking Corporate Charters and other information for individuals wishing to pursue charter revocation activities.
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CounterCorp sponsors of the annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) Richard Grossman, Ward Morehouse and others urging us to redefine corporations rather than regulate them.
CORPORATE CRIMEsee also CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and MONOPOLY
Alien Tort Claims Act cases from the corporate lobby group USA Engage. Organizations using ATCA to fight corporate abuse include EarthRights International and Center for Constitutional Rights and International Labor Rights Fund
Corporate Crime Reporter includes a report on The Top 100 False Claims Act Settlements.
Corporate fraud database compiled by Law.com
CrimeZyland
The Corporate Libraryinvestment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Endgame database of corporate fines & settlements
Settlements, Verdicts and Rulings (Lawyersandsettlements website)
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Linefrom the US EPA.
Government Accountability Project monitors governmental wrongdoing and protects whistleblowers.
New Internationalist reports on world poverty and inequality; their July 2003 issue featured the Corporate Crime Wave.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RECOL database
Anti-scofflaw proposal to keep corporate criminals from getting government contracts.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on federal government enforcement activities
US Federal Trade Commission decisions
Ten Worst Corporations as ranked by Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter) and Robert Weissman (Multinational Monitor)
Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
Ten Worst Corporations of 2004
Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
Ten Worst Corporations of 2002
Ten Worst Corporations of 2001
Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
Ten Worst Corporations of 1999
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
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Global Exchange's "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005
Global Exchange's "14 Worst Corporate Evildoers"
CORPORATE DOCUMENTS, GOVERNANCE, and SHAREHOLDERS
Corporate documents:
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) gives instant access to the annual, quarterly, proxy, and other reports filed by corporations.
EDGAR database for searching a particular corporation's documents.
SEC Form 10K annual report
SEC Form 13D shareholders with 5% or more of a company's stock
SEC Form 13F institutional shareholders
SEC Form DEF14 proxy statement (board of directors, shareholder resolutions)
EDGAR Online and 10K Wizard and Free EDGAR and EdgarScan provide access to SEC documents including insider trading and other information.
Energy utility documents Form 1 annual report submitted by major electric utilities.
Corporate docs available from U.S. states by Kathy Biehl at LLRX.com
Non-U.S. corporations:
The Scannery searches the websites of more than 10,000 publicly traded companies around the world.
Corporate governance standards from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [PDF Adobe software]
CANADIAN corporationsfile their disclosure documents with SEDAR and SEDI is Canada's System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders.
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
Identifying shareholders of particular corporations:
Compact Disclosure (a commercial database available in some libraries)
Lionshares
SecForm4.Com insider trading
CNN Money company profiles and shareholder lists
Google Finance company profiles
MFFAIS
MSN Money Central - shareholder lists
MSN Money Central - insider trading
Yahoo Finance company profiles and shareholder lists
Reverse listing directory (EDGAR Online People) - find a person’s stockholdings.
Corporate directors:
Corporate directors are named in public companies' annual shareholder proxy form (Form DEF14) which can be found by searching the SEC's EDGAR database.
They Rule can be used to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the US in 2001.
Corporate governance: see CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONIBILITY
CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS LOOKING AT ACTIVISTS
ActivistCash.com, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, "provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding."
Capital Research Center studies non-profit organizations, which it defines as "organizations that promote the growth of the welfare state." CRC principals include people from Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, etc. CRC's projects include Green Watch.
Corporate Social Responsibility Watch (CSRwatch and SRIwatch) from the Free Enterprise Education Institute.
NGO Watch from the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society.
ACTIVISTS LOOKING AT CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS
Center for Media & Democracy includes PR Watch, Disinfopedia, and other projects.
CLEAR Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research from the Environmental Working Group. Tracks industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement.
Disinfopedia directory of public relations firms, think tanks, and organizations that influence public opinion and public policy.
Full Frontal Scrutiny exposes front groups that hide or obscure their identity, membership or sponsorship. A project of Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy.
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
Non-Profit Organizations With Ties to Industry database from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
PR Watch monitors the public relations industry.
Western States Center has a Wise Use Public Exposure Project.
CORPORATE LOBBYING ORGANIZATIONS (these are the corporate websites. For critical profiles see The Corporate Consensus).
Business Roundtable
Conference Board
Council on Foreign Relations
Industry Functional Advisory Committees (IFAC)
Industry Sector Advisory Committees (ISAC)
Transatlantic Business Dialogue
Trilateral Commission
U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Economic Forum (Davos)
World Trade Organization
CORPORATE NEWS
Local/regional business news from American City Business Journals
News by industry from Yahoo.
Business.com
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
CORPORATE PROFILESsee also CORPORATIONS RANKED and SHAREHOLDERS
Some of these websites are designed by and for corporations, so they do not provide much history or perspective, much less any critical thinking. But they are places to find descriptions of corporations' operations, analyze corporate documents, and gather basic facts. A more critical and broad perspective can be found under other headings such as CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS and CORPORATE CRIME and in Endgame's Directory of Transnational Corporations.
Gorporate governance rankings from Institutional Shareholder Services, covering board of directors, audit, charter and bylaw provisions, anti-takeover provisions, executive and director compensation, progressive practices, ownership, director education. Go to Yahoo Finance, enter the company' stock symbol, click on Profile, then look at Corporate Governance.
Corporate Information covers public and private corporations in the U.S. and in other countries.
The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness. Their website includes Corporate and Director Interlocks in the USA.
Crocdyl is a Wiki database of corporate profiles by using a global network of researchers, journalists and nonprofit organization members, including the Center for Corporate Policy, CorpWatch, and Good Jobs First.
EuroPages the European Business Directory
FundingUniverse company histories.
Hoover's corporate profiles, rankings, links to corporate websites.
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
Yahoo Finance corporate profiles, news, shareholder lists, links to corporate websites.
US SEC EDGAR database of annual reports, proxy forms, etc. To search a particular corporation click here.
Sourcewatch Center for Media and Democracy project documenting public relations and propaganda
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
Students for Informed Career Decisions
Taiwancorpwatch
US Business Reporter The Digital Research Tool of Business.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Big Insiders tracks corporate governance, insider trading, and political influence.
BCSD and Corporate Governance Principles
Business Ethics magazinelists the "100 best corporate citizens" each year.
Business Ethics Network
Business for Social Responsibility - Issue Briefs
Caux Roundtable
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
Code For Corporate Responsibility (C4CR) Minnesota-based effort to enact Robert Hinkley's 28 Words to Redefine Corporate Duties: "but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, the public health or safety, the communities in which the corporation operates, or the dignity of its employees."
Confronting Companies Using Shareholder Power: A Handbook on Socially-Oriented Shareholder Activism from Friends of the Earth
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Governance aims to enhance the return on capital through increased accountability. Good links page.
Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
Corporate Responsibility Code Book by Deborah Leipziger has a list of codes summarized [PDF Adobe software]
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
Corporate Watchdog Media
Council on Economic Priorities ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach.
Council of Institutional Investors has a membership roster.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Ethical Consumer
Ethical Corporation
EthVest Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility database of shareholder resolutions.
FTSE4Good Index Series
Global Citizenship 360 (GC360) software data-gathering and reporting tool developed by Future 500 that tracks shareholder, workplace, community, marketplace and environment.
Global corporate governance index Institutional Shareholder Services and FTSE Group of Britain.
Global Reporting Initiative is a set of sustainability reporting guidelines.
Global Sullivan Principles
Goldman Sachs Corporate Governance Guidelines
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) coordinates shareholder resolutions co-filed by different investors. While ICCR's members are faith-based organizations, its broader constituency includes non-religious groups who look to it for guidance on social issues. ICCR's website includes a database of social-issue shareholder resolutions currently being filed
Investor Environmental Health Network
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) provides research, software products, and consulting services to clients representing institutional investors, corporations, law firms and other organizations.
Journal of Corporate Citizenship
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
New York Stock Exchange Section 303A governance standards
NGO Guidelines from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Northwest Corporate Accountability Project's David E. Ortman gives step-by-step information on the shareholder resolution process and guides you through the maze of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations.
OECD corporate governance standards [PDF Adobe software]
ONEREPORT SRI World Group data requests from 20 research and rating organizations.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Principles of Corporate Governance
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
Responsible Shopper
ResponsibleInvesting.org Natural Capital Institute analysis of the holdings and screening categories of SRI (socially responsible investment) mutual funds.
Smart Growth Network
Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000)
Social Investment Forum
SocialFunds.com
Stakeholder Alliance
Students for Informed Career Decisions
Trucost Plc emissions and natural resource usage in financial as well as quantity terms.
United Nations Global Compact
United Nations Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment
CORPORATE SUBSIDIES
Center for Public Integrity
Citizens for Tax Justice
Corporate Welfare Information Center
Corporate Welfare Shame Page
Earmark Watch database of "pork barrel" spending measures
Export Credit Agencies (ECA-Watch)
Federal Procurement Data Center
FedSpending searchable database of US government spending by OMB Watch
Green Scissors annual reports from Friends of the Earth et al. 2002 report and 2003 report [PDF Adobe software]
Illinois Corporate Accountability
Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy from Citizens for Tax Justice.
No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies, from Good Jobs First.
Stakeholder Alliance directed by former corporate accountant Ralph Estes, author of Tyranny of the Bottom Line.
State subsidies databases and State procurement contract databases linked at the Good Jobs First website
Tax Justice Network
Taxpayer Assets Project
Taxpayers for Common Sense
True Cost Clearinghouse economic, health, and social costs of pollution, worker exposures, and resource exploitation.
USASpending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes
CORPORATIONS RANKED BY NUMBERS (SALES, PROFITS, ASSETS, ETC)
Forbes magazine provides lists of the largest 500 U.S. public and 500 U.S. private corporations, the richest people, the highest executive pay, and an annual report on U.S. industry.
Fortune magazine ranks the largest 1000 U.S. corporations, the top 500 global corporations, the corporations most admired (by corporate executives!), 500 Asian corporations.
Forbes Global 2000
Hoover'sIncludes corporate profiles, rankings, and links to corporate websites.
Institute for Policy Studies Top 200 [PDF Adobe software]
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
CORRUPTION see POLITICS & MONEY
DRUGS
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies.
Drugs@FDA regulatory history of pharmaceuticals.
ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES
E.F. Schumacher Society
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
National Center for Employee Ownership
National Cooperative Bank
Natural Capitalism (based on book by Paul Hawken & Amory & Hunter Lovins)
New Rules Projectof the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
People-Centered Development Forum
Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology (Vandana Shiva)
ENERGY
Endgame Oil Industry Information
CleanEdge clean-tech markets, trends, and opportunities.
Climate Action Network working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Climate Solutions accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
Oil Change International exposes the true costs of oil and facilitates the coming transition to clean energy.
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network from Institute for Policy Studies & Transnational Institute; includes global map of energy infrastructure projects.
ENVIRONMENT see also TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory
Chemical Scorecard
Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research tracks the industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement.
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Line) from the US EPA.
Eco-Portal full text searches of reviewed environmental internet content.
EnviroLinkThe Online Environmental Community.
Environmental Background Information Centertools and strategies people need to confront corporate power. Strategy Guide, Court Research Guide, Proxies for People shareholder activism, Operation SLAPP Back.
Environmental justice principles
Environmental justice resourcesNYU Environmental and Land Use Law Center.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Environmental Media Services expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues.
Environmental reports on corporationsof them, gathered together by Hitochi Suzuki.
Environmental Working Group
European Pollutant Emission Register of industrial facilities by facility name, location, industry or pollutant.
Global Directory for Environmental Technology
Global Footprint Network tracks how much individuals, organizations, cities, regions, nations or humanity as a whole consumes.
GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) includes factory farm, nuclear, public health, and corporate accountability issues.
International Corporate Environmental Reporting Sitepublishes expensive reports.
League of Conservation Voters Environmental Scorecard
MapCruzin
Millennium Institute: State of the World Indicators
Money and Environmental Politics from Environmental Working Group.
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Todd's Atomic Homepage
Waterjustice campaigns against water privatisation initiated by the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATIONsee WEALTH
FOOD see also AGRIBUSINESS, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, etc
Agribusiness Center
Campaign to Label Geneticallly Engineered Foods
Center for Food Safety
Consumers Unionhas a food safety section.
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies
Organic Consumers Association
Ram's Horn
USDA PACA database of fruit and vegetable growers
FREE TRADEsee GLOBALIZATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RECORDS
FOIA Contacts at Federal Agencies
FIO.net resources for research
on freedom of information law.
Freedominfo.org
online network of advocates.
Freedominfo.org global survey
of information disclosure in various countries. [PDF Adobe software]
Government Accountability Project
has a National Whistleblower Center
How to Use the Federal FOI Act
from Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press.
LOUIS Library Of Unified Information Sources (US federal documents)
Memory Hole
OpenTheGovernment.org
National Freedom of Information Coalition list of State and National FOI Resources
National Security Archive
Project on Government Secrecy
Project On Government Oversight
Truth-Telling Project of Daniel Ellsberg
WikiLeaks
Search Systems Free Public Records Directory
Public records links from BRB
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
Investigators Anywhere Inc
Merlin Information Services links page
Getting Public Records
DataCenter's overview of FOIA and public records.
GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Bank Information Center
Bretton Woods Project
BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest
Challenging the FTAA, NAFTA & WTO: Community Research Toolkit from the DataCenter.
Council of Canadians
Export Credit Agencies ECA-Watch
Focus on the Global South
Foreign Policy in Focus project of Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies.
GATSwatch
International Business Forum
International Business Research (Rutgers Univ) trade treaties, commissions, etc.
International Forum on Globalization
Federation of International Trade Associations
People Centered Development Forum founded by David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Third World Network
Transnational Insitute (TNI) is a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists working on democratisation, the global economy, peace and security, and shadow economies.
U.S. Trade Representative
USTR's Industry Trade Advisory Committees
World Trade Organization
WTO Watch from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
GOVERNMENT see U.S. GOVERNMENT
HEALTH see TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
HUMAN RIGHTS
Aboriginal Resources
Amnesty International website includes Human Rights Links and country reports.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Cultural Survival
Global Witness exposes the link between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Native Americans and the Environment
Native Web
Survival International
INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
NameTraq gathers news articles containing specific last names.
Copernic has free software which will save and update Internet searches.
Highbeam tracks mulitple news sources.
NewsTrove tracks mulitple news sources.
Wayback machine from Internet Archive stores earlier versions of websites.
Who is? identifies who is behind a website.
LABOR (separate webpage)
LAND
The Land Lords
This Land is Ours
OneWorld's Big Issues Land Rights
Earth Liberation
LAW & LEGAL RESEARCH see also CORPORATE CRIME
Capitol Reports guide to federal and state agencies and laws.
All LawInternet legal gateway.
FindLaw gateway to state, federal, and international law.
FindLaw Documents Archive A-Z
LexisONE free online version of LexisNexis.
Nolo self-help law center.
PACER (ublic Access to Court Electronic Records) U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records
Zimmerman's Research Guide online encyclopedia for legal researchers.
LOBBYISTS see also POLITICS & MONEY
Hired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry.
Center for Responsive PoliticsStart here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else.
Lobby Filing Disclosure Program from the US Senate Office of Public Records
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
National Lobbyist Directory
State lobbying disclosure databases linked at Good Jobs First website
Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc.
Where Are They Now? tracks Congressional staffers through the revolving door.
MAPS & PHOTOS
GoogleMaps
TerraFly
Virtual Earth (Microsoft)
YahooMaps
MAQUILADORAS
Border Information and Outreach Service
MEDIA
Search Tools
MediaQ PR tool that integrates media contacts and content
NewsTrove searches multiple news and websites simultaneously.
Highbeam eLibrary searches multiple news and websites simultaneously. Free and subscription versions.
Links to News Media
ABYZ News Links
NewsLink
Common Dreams homepage has good links to mainstream and alternative news sources.
Drudge Report major U.S. media and syndicated columnists.
WebActive progressive streaming media.
Yahoo News & Media Directory
Media Monopoly
Media: Who Owns What from Columbia Journalism Review.
Well-Connected includes a media ownership tracker by city/state/zipcode.
Big Ten Media Conglomerates from The Nation magazine.
CJR magazine database
CJR newspaper database
Medialens monitoring the media for corporate and government distortion.
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Mergerstat
MILITARY see WAR
MINING
Earthworks (formerly Mineral Policy Center) protecting communities and environment from the impacts of mining and oil and gas.
Project Underground monitors oil and mining impacts worldwide.
Mines and Communities worldwide database from the muckraker Roger Moody.
Mountain Justice Summer fights mountaontop removal, steep slope strip mining, and other forms of surface mining for coal.
Who Owns The West? Environmental Working Group report on companies with mining rights on US public land.
MONOPOLY & ANTI-TRUST
Endgame list of corporate mergers
American Antitrust Institute
Antitrust Case Browserfrom St Olaf College
Antitrust Case Summary Browser
Competition Online maintains a list of Competition, Anti-trust and Regulatory websites
European Commission competition website lists mergers and anti-trust cases
Market Share Reports
Mergerstat
NameBase http://www.namebase.org/ index of individuals, corporations, and groups compiled from 600 investigative books published since 1962.
NEWS see MEDIA
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy from the Center for Science in the Public Interest report on corporate funding of non-profits.
Guidestar database of nonprofit organizations.
IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosure
NUCLEAR
Nuclear Information & Resource Serviceincludes background information on nuclear-related issues, including economics, decommissioning, radiation, reactor safety, radioactive waste, and more.
NucNewscompendium of news about nuclear, plutonium, uranium, radioactivity, arms sales, and wars.
Downwinders "Welcome America, We're All Downwinders Now!"
WISE Uranium Project
PETROCHEMICALS see Oil Industry Information Resources
POLITICS & MONEY
American Voter HotlistCongressional Quarterly's links to political websites, with emphasis on the federal.
Buying of the President from the Center for Public Integrity
Center for Public Integrity investigative journalism to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.
Center for Responsive PoliticsStart here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else.
Campaign Finance Information Center from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Includes database of federal contracts granted to corporations, state campaign finance databases, tip sheets for doing investigations, etc.
Common Cause Holding Power Accountable
Congressional Votes database from Washington Post lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991.
Electionworld
Federal Election Commission
FundRace searches donors by zipcode.
Guidestar database for tracking non-profit organizations.
Hired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry.
IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosuredatabase of non-profit political organizations that contribute money to candidates.
Members of Congress and the people who pay themfrom Open Secrets.
Mother Jones 400 profiles the 400 biggest individual contributors to political campaigns.
National Institute on Money in State PoliticsFollow the Money.
National Lobbyist Directory
Open Secrets
Personal Financial Disclosure forms filed by members of US Congress and Executive branch from Open Secrets.
Political Money Line
Project Vote Smart Tracking the performance of over 13,000 political leaders: President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators.
Public Campaign Advocacy group for "Clean Money, Clean Elections."
Soft Money Laundromat from Common Cause.
Sunlight Foundation promotes transparency and accountability by US Congress.
Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc.
Transparency International global coalition against corruption.
US Senate lobbyist registrations
POLLS
PollingReport summarizes many current poll results.
Gallup Organization
Louis Harris and Associates
[url=http://survey.rgs.uky...
Topics A to Z:
ACTIVIST RESEARCH -- GUIDES & GROUPS THAT DO ACTIVIST RESEARCH
Activist Research Manualsfrom Public Information Network.
Association for Independent Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility Research (Europe)
Center for Corporate Policy
Citizen Muckrakingfrom the Center for Public Intergrity.
Corp Watch (US)
Corporate Watch (UK) includes DIY Guide: How to Research Companies
Crocdyl Wiki database of corporate profiles
DataCenter
Dirt Diggers Digest from Philip Mattera
eActivist many social issues and a worldwide directory of politicians.
Endgame.org you're already there!
Environmental Background Information Center
How to Do Corporate Research Online from the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First
Internet Guide to Power Structure Research: Corporations
Jay's Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources Directory
Multinationals Resource Center
Probe International
Public Information Network you're already there!
Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
Raising Hell from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Researching Corporations from Corporate Watch.
Sourcewatch Center for Media and Democracy project documenting public relations and propaganda
ADVERTISING and COMMERCIALISM
100 Leading National Advertisers [PDF Adobe software]
Adbusters
Commercial Alert mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
Consumer Trap blog from Michael Dawson exposing capitalism, marketing & market totalitarianism
Obligation, Inc "reminding businesses and governments of their responsibility to children."
Center for Commercial Free Public Education
Center for Media & Democracy publishers of PR Watch.
Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education
Citizens Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools
Telemarketing Do Not Call List 1-888-382-1222. Firms that call numbers on the list face fines of up to $11,000 for each violation.
AGRIBUSINESS see also FOOD, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, etc
Agribusiness Accountability Initiative of the Center of Concern and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
Agribusiness Centerof the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is a clearinghouse for information on agribusiness corporations, news, and activist campaigns.
Agriculture of the Middle
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project Al Krebs, the master of agribusiness muckraking, monitors the economic, social and environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities, ecosystems and consumers.
Farm Subsidy Database from Environmental Working Group.
GM Watch monitors genetically modified foods.
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Ram's Horn information and analysis of the whole food system, including food security, biotechnology & genetic engineering, corporate ownership, agriculture and farmers, international trade, organic standards & pesticides, government regulation, and consumer's rights.
USDA PACA database of fruit and vegetable growers
ALTERNATIVES
Most of the Endgame website is focused on exposing the dysfunctions in industrial culture.
Here are some organizations which focus on practical alternatives and postitive action.
Earth Charter Community Summits website has a large Resource Directory.
Breakthrough Institute
Community-Wealth from The Democracy Collaborative
Earth Share
E.F. Schumacher Society and SmallIsBeautiful.org
Green Challenge
Institute for Local Self-Reliance and New Rules Project
Local Harvest
New Road Map Foundation
OneWorld
Simple Living Network
Sustainability Institute
Sustainable Communities Network
YES! Magazine
DECENTRALISTS
Lao Tzu
Aristotle
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Jefferson
M.K. Gandhi
G.K. Chesterton
E.F. Schumacher
Leopold Kohr
Wendell Berry
Ralph Borsodi
Jane Jacobs
Kirkpatrick Sale
David Morris
The Diggers
ANTITRUST see MONOPOLY
AUTOMOBILES
Sprawl-Busters
Culture Change / Sustainable Energy Institute and the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium.
BANKS
BankTrack network of civil society organisations tracking the operations of the private financial sector and its effect on people and the planet.
Bank Information Center
Berne Declaration monitors the role of Swiss corporations, banks, and government agencies.
IFIwatchnet monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks.
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Rainforest Action Network Global Finance Campaign
Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
Endgame bank links
BIOTECH
Campaign for Food Safety
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
Human Genome Project
Organic Consumers Association
Primal Seeds untangling ourselves from the monocult.
ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration)formerly RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International).
Union of Concerned Scientists
BOYCOTTS see also CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
Boycott Board
Boycott Action News from Co-Op America.
Envirolink Boycotts
Karma Banque
National Boycott List from AFL-CIO.
BRAND NAMES
FindOwnerSearch Brand name owner search by Uchisearch
CAMPAIGN FINANCE see POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS & LOBBYING
CHILDREN & CORPORATIONS see ADVERTISING
CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen explores the spiritual, psychological, cultural, economic, and environmental underpinnings of our culture's unbiquitous destructiveness and asks for sane, effective, and appropriate responses.
Primitivism: Index of Articles
Social Criticism Review1,000 online readings on modern society and its ills, with a focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific-technical complex.
COMMERCIALISM see ADVERTISING
COMPUTERS see TECHNOLOGY
CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
see also ADVERTISING and BOYCOTTS and CORPORATIONS RANKED BY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Commodity Fetish Times
Consumers Digest
Ethical Consumer looks behind the brand names and helps you to vote with your wallet.
Council on Economic PrioritiesFrom the folks who brought you "Shopping for a Better World." CEP ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach. It's all relative, so Chevron and Citicorp have been on their Honor Roll.
Recalls.gov database of recalled consumer products from the Consumer Products Safety Commission, Food and Drug Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard, and Agriculture Department.
CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS
Association Transnationale citizen portal on corporations (English, French and Spanish versions).
Aurora Institute
Business Ethics Network is a project of the Corporate Ethics International which builds the capacity of its members in their corporate campaign work, by providing education, facilitating collaboration, and increasing recognition of their campaign successes.
Campaignstrategy.org from Chris Rose.
Center for Corporate Policy working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Corporate Power Information Center
Corporate Responsibility Coalition in the UK.
Corporate Watch (UK) monitors social and environmental impacts of large corporations.
CorpWatch (US)
Global Exchange
Global Response
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CORPORATE CHARTERS & THE CORPORATION AS AN INSTITUTION
State-level corporation records summary and liks from LLRX
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund includes a Manual For Revoking Corporate Charters and other information for individuals wishing to pursue charter revocation activities.
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CounterCorp sponsors of the annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) Richard Grossman, Ward Morehouse and others urging us to redefine corporations rather than regulate them.
CORPORATE CRIMEsee also CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and MONOPOLY
Alien Tort Claims Act cases from the corporate lobby group USA Engage. Organizations using ATCA to fight corporate abuse include EarthRights International and Center for Constitutional Rights and International Labor Rights Fund
Corporate Crime Reporter includes a report on The Top 100 False Claims Act Settlements.
Corporate fraud database compiled by Law.com
CrimeZyland
The Corporate Libraryinvestment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Endgame database of corporate fines & settlements
Settlements, Verdicts and Rulings (Lawyersandsettlements website)
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Linefrom the US EPA.
Government Accountability Project monitors governmental wrongdoing and protects whistleblowers.
New Internationalist reports on world poverty and inequality; their July 2003 issue featured the Corporate Crime Wave.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RECOL database
Anti-scofflaw proposal to keep corporate criminals from getting government contracts.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on federal government enforcement activities
US Federal Trade Commission decisions
Ten Worst Corporations as ranked by Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter) and Robert Weissman (Multinational Monitor)
Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
Ten Worst Corporations of 2004
Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
Ten Worst Corporations of 2002
Ten Worst Corporations of 2001
Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
Ten Worst Corporations of 1999
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
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Global Exchange's "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005
Global Exchange's "14 Worst Corporate Evildoers"
CORPORATE DOCUMENTS, GOVERNANCE, and SHAREHOLDERS
Corporate documents:
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) gives instant access to the annual, quarterly, proxy, and other reports filed by corporations.
EDGAR database for searching a particular corporation's documents.
SEC Form 10K annual report
SEC Form 13D shareholders with 5% or more of a company's stock
SEC Form 13F institutional shareholders
SEC Form DEF14 proxy statement (board of directors, shareholder resolutions)
EDGAR Online and 10K Wizard and Free EDGAR and EdgarScan provide access to SEC documents including insider trading and other information.
Energy utility documents Form 1 annual report submitted by major electric utilities.
Corporate docs available from U.S. states by Kathy Biehl at LLRX.com
Non-U.S. corporations:
The Scannery searches the websites of more than 10,000 publicly traded companies around the world.
Corporate governance standards from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [PDF Adobe software]
CANADIAN corporationsfile their disclosure documents with SEDAR and SEDI is Canada's System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders.
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
Identifying shareholders of particular corporations:
Compact Disclosure (a commercial database available in some libraries)
Lionshares
SecForm4.Com insider trading
CNN Money company profiles and shareholder lists
Google Finance company profiles
MFFAIS
MSN Money Central - shareholder lists
MSN Money Central - insider trading
Yahoo Finance company profiles and shareholder lists
Reverse listing directory (EDGAR Online People) - find a person’s stockholdings.
Corporate directors:
Corporate directors are named in public companies' annual shareholder proxy form (Form DEF14) which can be found by searching the SEC's EDGAR database.
They Rule can be used to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the US in 2001.
Corporate governance: see CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONIBILITY
CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS LOOKING AT ACTIVISTS
ActivistCash.com, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, "provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding."
Capital Research Center studies non-profit organizations, which it defines as "organizations that promote the growth of the welfare state." CRC principals include people from Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, etc. CRC's projects include Green Watch.
Corporate Social Responsibility Watch (CSRwatch and SRIwatch) from the Free Enterprise Education Institute.
NGO Watch from the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society.
ACTIVISTS LOOKING AT CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS
Center for Media & Democracy includes PR Watch, Disinfopedia, and other projects.
CLEAR Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research from the Environmental Working Group. Tracks industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement.
Disinfopedia directory of public relations firms, think tanks, and organizations that influence public opinion and public policy.
Full Frontal Scrutiny exposes front groups that hide or obscure their identity, membership or sponsorship. A project of Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy.
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
Non-Profit Organizations With Ties to Industry database from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
PR Watch monitors the public relations industry.
Western States Center has a Wise Use Public Exposure Project.
CORPORATE LOBBYING ORGANIZATIONS (these are the corporate websites. For critical profiles see The Corporate Consensus).
Business Roundtable
Conference Board
Council on Foreign Relations
Industry Functional Advisory Committees (IFAC)
Industry Sector Advisory Committees (ISAC)
Transatlantic Business Dialogue
Trilateral Commission
U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Economic Forum (Davos)
World Trade Organization
CORPORATE NEWS
Local/regional business news from American City Business Journals
News by industry from Yahoo.
Business.com
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
CORPORATE PROFILESsee also CORPORATIONS RANKED and SHAREHOLDERS
Some of these websites are designed by and for corporations, so they do not provide much history or perspective, much less any critical thinking. But they are places to find descriptions of corporations' operations, analyze corporate documents, and gather basic facts. A more critical and broad perspective can be found under other headings such as CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS and CORPORATE CRIME and in Endgame's Directory of Transnational Corporations.
Gorporate governance rankings from Institutional Shareholder Services, covering board of directors, audit, charter and bylaw provisions, anti-takeover provisions, executive and director compensation, progressive practices, ownership, director education. Go to Yahoo Finance, enter the company' stock symbol, click on Profile, then look at Corporate Governance.
Corporate Information covers public and private corporations in the U.S. and in other countries.
The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness. Their website includes Corporate and Director Interlocks in the USA.
Crocdyl is a Wiki database of corporate profiles by using a global network of researchers, journalists and nonprofit organization members, including the Center for Corporate Policy, CorpWatch, and Good Jobs First.
EuroPages the European Business Directory
FundingUniverse company histories.
Hoover's corporate profiles, rankings, links to corporate websites.
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
Yahoo Finance corporate profiles, news, shareholder lists, links to corporate websites.
US SEC EDGAR database of annual reports, proxy forms, etc. To search a particular corporation click here.
Sourcewatch Center for Media and Democracy project documenting public relations and propaganda
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
Students for Informed Career Decisions
Taiwancorpwatch
US Business Reporter The Digital Research Tool of Business.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Big Insiders tracks corporate governance, insider trading, and political influence.
BCSD and Corporate Governance Principles
Business Ethics magazinelists the "100 best corporate citizens" each year.
Business Ethics Network
Business for Social Responsibility - Issue Briefs
Caux Roundtable
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
Code For Corporate Responsibility (C4CR) Minnesota-based effort to enact Robert Hinkley's 28 Words to Redefine Corporate Duties: "but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, the public health or safety, the communities in which the corporation operates, or the dignity of its employees."
Confronting Companies Using Shareholder Power: A Handbook on Socially-Oriented Shareholder Activism from Friends of the Earth
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Governance aims to enhance the return on capital through increased accountability. Good links page.
Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
Corporate Responsibility Code Book by Deborah Leipziger has a list of codes summarized [PDF Adobe software]
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
Corporate Watchdog Media
Council on Economic Priorities ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach.
Council of Institutional Investors has a membership roster.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Ethical Consumer
Ethical Corporation
EthVest Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility database of shareholder resolutions.
FTSE4Good Index Series
Global Citizenship 360 (GC360) software data-gathering and reporting tool developed by Future 500 that tracks shareholder, workplace, community, marketplace and environment.
Global corporate governance index Institutional Shareholder Services and FTSE Group of Britain.
Global Reporting Initiative is a set of sustainability reporting guidelines.
Global Sullivan Principles
Goldman Sachs Corporate Governance Guidelines
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) coordinates shareholder resolutions co-filed by different investors. While ICCR's members are faith-based organizations, its broader constituency includes non-religious groups who look to it for guidance on social issues. ICCR's website includes a database of social-issue shareholder resolutions currently being filed
Investor Environmental Health Network
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) provides research, software products, and consulting services to clients representing institutional investors, corporations, law firms and other organizations.
Journal of Corporate Citizenship
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
New York Stock Exchange Section 303A governance standards
NGO Guidelines from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Northwest Corporate Accountability Project's David E. Ortman gives step-by-step information on the shareholder resolution process and guides you through the maze of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations.
OECD corporate governance standards [PDF Adobe software]
ONEREPORT SRI World Group data requests from 20 research and rating organizations.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Principles of Corporate Governance
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
Responsible Shopper
ResponsibleInvesting.org Natural Capital Institute analysis of the holdings and screening categories of SRI (socially responsible investment) mutual funds.
Smart Growth Network
Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000)
Social Investment Forum
SocialFunds.com
Stakeholder Alliance
Students for Informed Career Decisions
Trucost Plc emissions and natural resource usage in financial as well as quantity terms.
United Nations Global Compact
United Nations Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment
CORPORATE SUBSIDIES
Center for Public Integrity
Citizens for Tax Justice
Corporate Welfare Information Center
Corporate Welfare Shame Page
Earmark Watch database of "pork barrel" spending measures
Export Credit Agencies (ECA-Watch)
Federal Procurement Data Center
FedSpending searchable database of US government spending by OMB Watch
Green Scissors annual reports from Friends of the Earth et al. 2002 report and 2003 report [PDF Adobe software]
Illinois Corporate Accountability
Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy from Citizens for Tax Justice.
No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies, from Good Jobs First.
Stakeholder Alliance directed by former corporate accountant Ralph Estes, author of Tyranny of the Bottom Line.
State subsidies databases and State procurement contract databases linked at the Good Jobs First website
Tax Justice Network
Taxpayer Assets Project
Taxpayers for Common Sense
True Cost Clearinghouse economic, health, and social costs of pollution, worker exposures, and resource exploitation.
USASpending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes
CORPORATIONS RANKED BY NUMBERS (SALES, PROFITS, ASSETS, ETC)
Forbes magazine provides lists of the largest 500 U.S. public and 500 U.S. private corporations, the richest people, the highest executive pay, and an annual report on U.S. industry.
Fortune magazine ranks the largest 1000 U.S. corporations, the top 500 global corporations, the corporations most admired (by corporate executives!), 500 Asian corporations.
Forbes Global 2000
Hoover'sIncludes corporate profiles, rankings, and links to corporate websites.
Institute for Policy Studies Top 200 [PDF Adobe software]
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
CORRUPTION see POLITICS & MONEY
DRUGS
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies.
Drugs@FDA regulatory history of pharmaceuticals.
ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES
E.F. Schumacher Society
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
National Center for Employee Ownership
National Cooperative Bank
Natural Capitalism (based on book by Paul Hawken & Amory & Hunter Lovins)
New Rules Projectof the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
People-Centered Development Forum
Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology (Vandana Shiva)
ENERGY
Endgame Oil Industry Information
CleanEdge clean-tech markets, trends, and opportunities.
Climate Action Network working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Climate Solutions accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
Oil Change International exposes the true costs of oil and facilitates the coming transition to clean energy.
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network from Institute for Policy Studies & Transnational Institute; includes global map of energy infrastructure projects.
ENVIRONMENT see also TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory
Chemical Scorecard
Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research tracks the industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement.
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Line) from the US EPA.
Eco-Portal full text searches of reviewed environmental internet content.
EnviroLinkThe Online Environmental Community.
Environmental Background Information Centertools and strategies people need to confront corporate power. Strategy Guide, Court Research Guide, Proxies for People shareholder activism, Operation SLAPP Back.
Environmental justice principles
Environmental justice resourcesNYU Environmental and Land Use Law Center.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Environmental Media Services expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues.
Environmental reports on corporationsof them, gathered together by Hitochi Suzuki.
Environmental Working Group
European Pollutant Emission Register of industrial facilities by facility name, location, industry or pollutant.
Global Directory for Environmental Technology
Global Footprint Network tracks how much individuals, organizations, cities, regions, nations or humanity as a whole consumes.
GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) includes factory farm, nuclear, public health, and corporate accountability issues.
International Corporate Environmental Reporting Sitepublishes expensive reports.
League of Conservation Voters Environmental Scorecard
MapCruzin
Millennium Institute: State of the World Indicators
Money and Environmental Politics from Environmental Working Group.
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly
Todd's Atomic Homepage
Waterjustice campaigns against water privatisation initiated by the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATIONsee WEALTH
FOOD see also AGRIBUSINESS, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, etc
Agribusiness Center
Campaign to Label Geneticallly Engineered Foods
Center for Food Safety
Consumers Unionhas a food safety section.
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies
Organic Consumers Association
Ram's Horn
USDA PACA database of fruit and vegetable growers
FREE TRADEsee GLOBALIZATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RECORDS
FOIA Contacts at Federal Agencies
FIO.net resources for research
on freedom of information law.
Freedominfo.org
online network of advocates.
Freedominfo.org global survey
of information disclosure in various countries. [PDF Adobe software]
Government Accountability Project
has a National Whistleblower Center
How to Use the Federal FOI Act
from Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press.
LOUIS Library Of Unified Information Sources (US federal documents)
Memory Hole
OpenTheGovernment.org
National Freedom of Information Coalition list of State and National FOI Resources
National Security Archive
Project on Government Secrecy
Project On Government Oversight
Truth-Telling Project of Daniel Ellsberg
WikiLeaks
Search Systems Free Public Records Directory
Public records links from BRB
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
Investigators Anywhere Inc
Merlin Information Services links page
Getting Public Records
DataCenter's overview of FOIA and public records.
GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Bank Information Center
Bretton Woods Project
BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest
Challenging the FTAA, NAFTA & WTO: Community Research Toolkit from the DataCenter.
Council of Canadians
Export Credit Agencies ECA-Watch
Focus on the Global South
Foreign Policy in Focus project of Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies.
GATSwatch
International Business Forum
International Business Research (Rutgers Univ) trade treaties, commissions, etc.
International Forum on Globalization
Federation of International Trade Associations
People Centered Development Forum founded by David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Third World Network
Transnational Insitute (TNI) is a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists working on democratisation, the global economy, peace and security, and shadow economies.
U.S. Trade Representative
USTR's Industry Trade Advisory Committees
World Trade Organization
WTO Watch from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
GOVERNMENT see U.S. GOVERNMENT
HEALTH see TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
HUMAN RIGHTS
Aboriginal Resources
Amnesty International website includes Human Rights Links and country reports.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Cultural Survival
Global Witness exposes the link between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Native Americans and the Environment
Native Web
Survival International
INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
NameTraq gathers news articles containing specific last names.
Copernic has free software which will save and update Internet searches.
Highbeam tracks mulitple news sources.
NewsTrove tracks mulitple news sources.
Wayback machine from Internet Archive stores earlier versions of websites.
Who is? identifies who is behind a website.
LABOR (separate webpage)
LAND
The Land Lords
This Land is Ours
OneWorld's Big Issues Land Rights
Earth Liberation
LAW & LEGAL RESEARCH see also CORPORATE CRIME
Capitol Reports guide to federal and state agencies and laws.
All LawInternet legal gateway.
FindLaw gateway to state, federal, and international law.
FindLaw Documents Archive A-Z
LexisONE free online version of LexisNexis.
Nolo self-help law center.
PACER (ublic Access to Court Electronic Records) U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records
Zimmerman's Research Guide online encyclopedia for legal researchers.
LOBBYISTS see also POLITICS & MONEY
Hired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry.
Center for Responsive PoliticsStart here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else.
Lobby Filing Disclosure Program from the US Senate Office of Public Records
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
National Lobbyist Directory
State lobbying disclosure databases linked at Good Jobs First website
Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc.
Where Are They Now? tracks Congressional staffers through the revolving door.
MAPS & PHOTOS
GoogleMaps
TerraFly
Virtual Earth (Microsoft)
YahooMaps
MAQUILADORAS
Border Information and Outreach Service
MEDIA
Search Tools
MediaQ PR tool that integrates media contacts and content
NewsTrove searches multiple news and websites simultaneously.
Highbeam eLibrary searches multiple news and websites simultaneously. Free and subscription versions.
Links to News Media
ABYZ News Links
NewsLink
Common Dreams homepage has good links to mainstream and alternative news sources.
Drudge Report major U.S. media and syndicated columnists.
WebActive progressive streaming media.
Yahoo News & Media Directory
Media Monopoly
Media: Who Owns What from Columbia Journalism Review.
Well-Connected includes a media ownership tracker by city/state/zipcode.
Big Ten Media Conglomerates from The Nation magazine.
CJR magazine database
CJR newspaper database
Medialens monitoring the media for corporate and government distortion.
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Mergerstat
MILITARY see WAR
MINING
Earthworks (formerly Mineral Policy Center) protecting communities and environment from the impacts of mining and oil and gas.
Project Underground monitors oil and mining impacts worldwide.
Mines and Communities worldwide database from the muckraker Roger Moody.
Mountain Justice Summer fights mountaontop removal, steep slope strip mining, and other forms of surface mining for coal.
Who Owns The West? Environmental Working Group report on companies with mining rights on US public land.
MONOPOLY & ANTI-TRUST
Endgame list of corporate mergers
American Antitrust Institute
Antitrust Case Browserfrom St Olaf College
Antitrust Case Summary Browser
Competition Online maintains a list of Competition, Anti-trust and Regulatory websites
European Commission competition website lists mergers and anti-trust cases
Market Share Reports
Mergerstat
NameBase http://www.namebase.org/ index of individuals, corporations, and groups compiled from 600 investigative books published since 1962.
NEWS see MEDIA
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy from the Center for Science in the Public Interest report on corporate funding of non-profits.
Guidestar database of nonprofit organizations.
IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosure
NUCLEAR
Nuclear Information & Resource Serviceincludes background information on nuclear-related issues, including economics, decommissioning, radiation, reactor safety, radioactive waste, and more.
NucNewscompendium of news about nuclear, plutonium, uranium, radioactivity, arms sales, and wars.
Downwinders "Welcome America, We're All Downwinders Now!"
WISE Uranium Project
PETROCHEMICALS see Oil Industry Information Resources
POLITICS & MONEY
American Voter HotlistCongressional Quarterly's links to political websites, with emphasis on the federal.
Buying of the President from the Center for Public Integrity
Center for Public Integrity investigative journalism to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.
Center for Responsive PoliticsStart here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else.
Campaign Finance Information Center from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Includes database of federal contracts granted to corporations, state campaign finance databases, tip sheets for doing investigations, etc.
Common Cause Holding Power Accountable
Congressional Votes database from Washington Post lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991.
Electionworld
Federal Election Commission
FundRace searches donors by zipcode.
Guidestar database for tracking non-profit organizations.
Hired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry.
IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosuredatabase of non-profit political organizations that contribute money to candidates.
Members of Congress and the people who pay themfrom Open Secrets.
Mother Jones 400 profiles the 400 biggest individual contributors to political campaigns.
National Institute on Money in State PoliticsFollow the Money.
National Lobbyist Directory
Open Secrets
Personal Financial Disclosure forms filed by members of US Congress and Executive branch from Open Secrets.
Political Money Line
Project Vote Smart Tracking the performance of over 13,000 political leaders: President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators.
Public Campaign Advocacy group for "Clean Money, Clean Elections."
Soft Money Laundromat from Common Cause.
Sunlight Foundation promotes transparency and accountability by US Congress.
Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc.
Transparency International global coalition against corruption.
US Senate lobbyist registrations
POLLS
PollingReport summarizes many current poll results.
Gallup Organization
Louis Harris and Associates
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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