Background
| Corporate Restructuring to Protect Nukes from Liability by Karl Grossman, Special to CorpWatch October 23rd, 2002 Not only have manufacturers of nuclear plants undergone globalization, but utilities in the U.S. have been engaged in consolidation and mergers in the last several years along with the increased use of limited liability and multi-tiered holding companies to own nuclear plants. |
| Soweto Stories by Brian Ashe, EarthLife Africa eThekwini August 16th, 2002 Some residents of Soweto, a township outside Johannesburg, have expressed anger at being sent bills by Eskom even though they either do not have electricity or their supply has long been cut off. Here's what they say. |
| Eskom's African Privatisation Footprint 2000-2002 by Brian Ashe, EarthLife Africa eThekwini August 16th, 2002 Eskom, through Eskom Enterprises, currently has a presence in almost 30 countries on the continent. |
| Student Achievment in Edison Schools: Mixed Results in an Ongoing Enterprise American Federation of Teachers October 1st, 2000 The Preface and Executive Summary of a report by the American Federation of Teachers which looks at student achievment in 13 schools run by the Edison Project. |
| US: America's Private Gulag by Ken Silverstein, Prison Legal News June 1st, 2000 What is the most profitable industry in America? Weapons, oil and computer technology all offer high rates of return, but there is probably no sector of the economy so abloom with money as the privately run prison industry. |
| US: Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery by Gregory Palast, The Observer (London) September 26th, 1999 New Mexico's privately operated prisons are filled with America's impoverished, violent outcasts -- and those are the guards. That's the warning I took away from confidential documents and from guards themselves who nervously spoke on condition that their names never see the light of day. |
| US: Virginia Prisons Open for Business by Dan Pens, Prison Legal News November 1st, 1998 In a warehouse near the Baltimore airport in 1997, California businessman Trek Kelly observed a supplier peeling tags off crates of merchandise. Later he found a tag that had been overlooked. A tag with the words ''Virginia State Prisons'' printed on it. |
| The Education Industry Facts: An Overview CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 Here is the information for our ''click-able'' schoolhouse. The data comes from Consumer Reports' ''Captive Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids at School.'' |
| What's on Channel 1? Center for Commercial Free Public Education July 8th, 1998 Eight Million U.S. students are required to watch Channel One -- a commercial filled current events program every day. Schools get satellite dishes, VCRs and TVs in exchange for providing a captive audience to advertisers. Check out this report from the Center for Commercial Free Public Education. |
| The CCPA Education Project by Erika Shaker, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives July 8th, 1998 Erika Shaker, an analyst with the Center for Policy Alternatives looks at the education industry's inroads in Canada. |
| For-Profit Management of Public Schools National Education Association July 8th, 1998 A policy statement by the National Education Association, an organization of 2.4 million educators and public school and university employees throughout the United States. The NEA has compiled extensive research on corporate school management. |
| Teens Claim Abuse at Prison by John Allard, The State July 2nd, 1998 Eight boys formerly jailed at a privately run juvenile prison are claiming that employees assaulted them when they were hogtied. |
| Prisons for Profit, cont. by Eric Bates, The Nation May 4th, 1998 Alex Friedmann doesn't look like the kind of guy who would incite a prison riot. Slight and bespectacled, Friedmann measures his words carefully and is quick to point out his own biases. So it came as a bit of a surprise a few weeks ago when Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in the world, abruptly transferred Friedmann from its medium-security lockup in Clifton, Tennessee. |
| US: Juvenile Crime Pays by Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News February 1st, 1998 The juvenile justice system has become enormously profitable as youths are channeled from the schoolhouse to the jailhouse in ever-increasing numbers. From 1991 to 1995 the population of youthful offenders held in privately operated facilities grew 10% to an estimated 35,600, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. |
| Captive Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressures on Kids at School Consumer Reports January 1st, 1998 Excerpts from Consumer Reports' ground breaking study on commercialism in the schools. |
| US: Private Transportation Firms Take Prisoners for a Ride by Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News November 1st, 1997 On April 3, 1997, six prisoners were roasted alive when the privately-operated van that was transporting them to Florida caught fire on I-40 near Dickson, Tennessee. Both of the guards in the van escaped serious injury. |
| US: Strange Bedfellows by Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News June 1st, 1997 Corrections Corporation of America's (CCA) connection with local politics began when the Nashville-based company was formed during Governor Lamar Alexander's administration. |
| Schools for Globalized Business: The APEC Agenda for Education by Larry Kuehn, British Columbia Teachers' Federation May 1st, 1997 Larry Keuhn, the former head of British Columbia Teachers' Federation, looks at the reshaping of education to fit the needs of global corporations by critiquing a paper prepared by South Korea's Ministry of Labor and the economic integration of the Asia-Pacific region. |
| US: Out-Celling the Competition by Dan Pens, North Coast Xpress May 1st, 1996 Was your Microsoft Windows 95 packed and shrink-wrapped by a Washington State prisoner? According to one prisoner who works for Exmark, a company specializing in product packaging, approximately 90 prisoners at the Twin Rivers Correctional Center (TRCC) in Monroe shrink-wrapped 50,000 units of Windows 95. |
| Lessons of Chile's Voucher Reform Movement by Martin Carnoy, Rethinking Schools January 1st, 1996 Stanford University Professor Martin Carnoy, explains that while Chile's voucher experiment did little for poor schoolchildren, it was part of a broad trend towards privatizing social services. Originally published in Selling Out our Schools by Rethinking Schools. |
| The Commercialized Classroom by Holley Knaus, Multinational Monitor March 1st, 1992 Underfunded schools, desperate for resources, are increasingly receptive to corporate-sponsored educational materials and programs, and are ever more accepting of the associated commercialism and product promotion. ''We are paying for educational deficits by selling kids to advertisers,'' says Peggy Charren, president of the advocacy group Action for Children's Television |