America's top 10 Corporations
(US $ millions)
Has been heavily criticised by workers rights groups for using 'Maquila' sweatshops to manufacture it's products. www.walmartwatch.com
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth &
People & Planet launched a boycott of Exxon (Esso in the UK) in 2001
- despite legal threats from Exxon, the boycott is still going strong:
US oil dependency is playing a large part in fuelling conflict in the Middle East. The company that has done more than any other to keep the US hooked on oil is Esso (known as ExxonMobil in the USA). It’s the world’s largest oil company and the closest to George Bush.
Esso has spent the last decade sabotaging international action on climate change and directing US climate and energy policy. Esso paid the Republicans $1.2 million up to the 2000 elections - and sure enough Bush pulled out of the international global warming treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.
Esso has consistently questioned the accepted scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels like oil is causing global warming. It is still misleading the US public and policymakers over the economic implications of tackling the problem. It has funded ‘climate sceptic’ scientists and industry front groups to lobby on its behalf.
If Bush was acting on climate change, he’d be curbing the US addiction to oil. And US oil companies are only likely to benefit from a war in Iraq if Bush secures a regime change
www.stopesso.com
Michael Moore's first feature film, 'Roger & Me' depicts the extreme poverty inflicted on his hometown: Flint, Michigan, when General Motors relocated their headquarters. www.michaelmoore.com
The Ford 'Explorer', a gas-guzzling Sports-Utility Vehicle won Ford the Sierra Clubs 'Exxon-Valdez Award for the Environment'. They are pressuring Ford to produce a popular low-emissions car
There are very few politicians in Washington that hadn’t been on the receiving end of campaign donations from Enron, before it's spectacular collapse last year. Open Secrets Enron
General Electric is responsible for dumping highly toxic PCBs into the Hudson River and has resisted a long-running campaign to clean the river up. www.hudsonwatch.org
According to Rainforest Action Network: The number one funder of fossil-fuel destruction around the world, The top funder of logging projects in the world's endangered ecosystems, The top contributor to both political parties in the last US election www.thisiscitigroup.or
Philip Morris are leading the tobacco industry's campaign against public health. That's why Infact are campaigning to give the Marlboro Man the boot.www.infact.org