This Clear Spot from April 26th asks which dodgy company most deserves the Greenwash Gold medal in 2012? Who is covering up environmental destruction and devastating communities while pretending to be a good corporate citizen …
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Greenwash Gold on Resonance FM
The age of extreme oil: “This used to be a forest?”
Achuar Indigenous People from Peru inspect Canada’s tarsands.
BP, Dow Chemical Sponsoring the “Greenest Ever” Olympics, and UK Enviros Aren’t Having It
Ever since the fleet-footed runners and chariot races of ancient Greece, ethics have been at the root of the Olympic games. There’s an Olympic oath, creed, and hymn. And then there’s the torch, which has …
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London2012: an Olympian exercise in corporate greenwashing
Amidst its lofty rhetoric about excellence and sustainability the London Olympics have chosen some of the world’s most unethical companies as corporate sponsors. Phil England presents powerful first-hand testimonies from victims and campaigners dismayed and …
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UK Parliamentary motion supports Greenwash Gold campaign
If you live in the UK, please ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 2951:
Greenwash Gold 2012
‘That this House welcomes the launch by Bhopal Medical Appeal, London Mining Network and UK Tar …
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‘Greenest ever’ Olympics claims dismissed as corporate spin
Lord Coe’s claim that London 2012 will be the greenest ever Olympic Games is “corporate spin” say human rights groups, who yesterday launched a campaign to highlight the environmental record of three multinational sponsors.
BP, Rio …
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Launch of Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign
London Mining Network, UK Tar Sands Network and Bhopal Medical Appeal launch the ‘Greenwash Gold 2012′ Campaign today. See the campaign website at http://www.greenwashgold.org/.
See also http://londonminingnetwork.org/2012/03/launch-of-greenwash-gold-2012-campaign/ and media coverage below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/15/protest-groups-olympics-sponsors-campaign.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/an-unlikely-protest-pinup-for-the-summers-olympic-games-7646602.html…
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Protesters dragged out of BP AGM after board avoids uncomfortable questions
Gulf Coast residents were cut short by the Chair, and environmental questions were brushed aside before last Thursday’s BP Annual General Meeting was disrupted by a “die-in” protest.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/04/protesters-dragged-out-of-bp-agm-after-board-avoids-uncomfortable-questions/.…
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London 2012 Olympics: Anti-BP activists carry out sponsor sacking hoax as protests grow
The official London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked on Wednesday by protesters demanding that BP be dropped as one of the event’s official sponsors.
Next Monday a coalition of three significant protest groups – …
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Global justice under threat from Legal Aid plans
The UK government is proposing to change the system so that lawyers’ success fees and the insurance premiums would be paid out of the damages awarded to the victim instead of being paid by the …
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Launch of Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign
London Mining Network, UK Tar Sands Network and Bhopal Medical Appeal have launched our ‘Greenwash Gold 2012′ Campaign. See the campaign website at http://www.greenwashgold.org/ and vote for the company you think should win Greenwash Gold.