| Soweto Resists ANC Privatization Moves by Walter Turner: Interview with Trevor Ngwane, Africa Today August 18th, 2004 From illegal reconnection to the electrical grid, "Operation Khanyisa" to refusal of pre-pair water meters, South Africa's largest black township fights back. |
| Argentina Water Privatization Scheme Runs Dry by Sebastian Hacher, Special to CorpWatch February 26th, 2004 Rio de la Plata is one of the few rivers of the world whose pollution can be seen from space. Making matters worse is the privatized water company Aguas Argentinas, which dumps sewage into the river a few kilometers from where it treats water for drinking. |
| AES Backs Out of Bujagali Dam Project by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch August 28th, 2003 The future of a World Bank-sponsored dam scheme at Bujagali Falls on the Victoria Nile in eastern Uganda has been thrown into question with the withdrawal of energy giant AES Corporation from the project. |
| Busting the Water Cartel by Holly Wren Spaulding, Special to CorpWatch March 27th, 2003 A report from inside the World Water Forum on the showdown between water privatizers and human rights activists. |
| World Contrasts by Eduardo Galeano, www.portoalegre2003.org January 16th, 2003 Next week, thousands will descend on Porto Alegre, Brazil for the World Social Forum, under the slogan "Another World is Possible." We thought these reflections by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano on the world as it is today were a good place to start. |
| Will Congress Investigate US Agencies' Enron Ties? by Jim Vallette, Special to CorpWatch August 1st, 2002 The Senate is investigating the role of private investment banks in the Enron scandal. Could public institutions, like the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank be next? |
| A Tale of Two Coups: Venezuela and Argentina by Greg Palast, New Internationalist Magazine July 3rd, 2002 April's big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international finance's coup in Argentina in recent months has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the inside track on two very different power-grabs. |
| Afghan Pipe Dreams by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch June 28th, 2002 Is the US War on Terrorism in Afghanistan really a war for a natural gas pipeline? Fossil fuel corporations and the World Bank are expressing cautious interest. Activists are concerned. |
| Enron's Empire by Daphne Wysham and Jim Vallette, Special to CorpWatch April 11th, 2002 U.S. taxpayers' money, $7 billion worth, laid the foundation for Enron's global operations. Wysham and Vallette expose the company's dirty deals that brought turmoil to communities the world over. |
| Globalizing Hope by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 The only way to really describe the World Social Forum that just ended in Brazil is a global political ''carnaval.'' |
| The Whole World Was Watching by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 The first week of February posed a test to the anti-corporate globalization movement and its targets. Local NY organizers got an A for attitude. The police passed. The WEF -- they flunked as usual. |
| World Economic Forum Protests Pose New Challenges for Anti-Globalization Movements by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch January 29th, 2002 Will demonstrators show that anti-corporate sentiment is alive and well? We look at the issues raised by the World Economic Forum in New York and the World Social Forum in Brazil. |
| After Carlo Giuliani, Peaceful Protests Must Continue by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch July 25th, 2001 The highly publicized killing of Carlo Giuliani during the protests in Genoa on Friday, July 19th may mark a milestone for the anti-corporate globalization movement as significant as the Battle in Seattle. |
| This Is What Democracy Looks Like by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch January 28th, 2001 Thousands gather in Porto Alegre, Brazil to look towards a future in which corporations no longer rule. |
| Is Bush Bad News for the World Bank? by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South January 18th, 2001 Scholar Walden Bello says a Bush presidency is bad news for the Bank and the Fund. |
| Prague Police Brutalize Activist Prisoner by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch September 29th, 2000 PRAGUE -- Yehoshua Tzarfati has a chilling story to tell. He came to Prague to help as a medic during this week's World Bank/IMF demonstrations. |
| Protestors Parade Through Prague by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch September 26th, 2000 PRAGUE -- In a day of protests that were more colorful than violent, 9,000 demonstrators surrounded Prague's Congress Center where the World Bank and IMF are holding their annual meeting. |
| Activists from the Developing World See D.C. Events as a Watershed in Global Solidarity by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch April 17th, 2000 If you ask a Mexican farmer, Indian civil servant, Filipina garment worker, Bolivian miner or South African student what structural adjustment is, chances are they would be able to explain IMF and World Bank mandated belt tightening because their lives have been touched by it. |
| Beyond Street Tactics by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch April 17th, 2000 The final day of the World Bank/IMF protests ranged from stand offs between protestors and police, an obsession with violence on the part of the media, and excitement and hopefulness from organizers and activists. |
| The World Bank Takes More Than it Gives by Julie Light, CorpWatch April 14th, 2000 Dr. Vineeta Gupta is a physician and human rights activist based in Punjab, India. She has focused her efforts on World Bank efforts to privatize healthcare in Punjab. According to Dr. Gupta, the result of World Bank policies has not been greater access to healthcare. |