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From Johnson & Johnson's offer to pay $6.5 billion for 54,000 U.S. plaintiffs to drop lawsuits over baby powder to an investigation that shows that the World Bank funded Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia was involved inland grabbing and forced evictions, here is some of the latest news of corporate wrongdoing! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit #WorldBank #LandGrabbing #IndigenousRights #WorkerSafety #BigPharma #homeless #EnvironmentalJustice #babyfood

✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 Anita Roddock was the founder of The Body Shop and a leading pioneer of ethical consumerism and fair trade. She was also an environmental campaigner and human rights activist. #CorpWatch #CorporateCrime #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit

Spills from Petroperú’s oil drilling have devastated the Marañón river in Peru for some 50 years. In order to tackle the pollution, a group of Kukama Indigenous women sued the government and Petroperú asserting that the river is a living entity with rights that should be protected. In March 2024, a court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered the company to clean up the river. Images in this post were kindly provided by Asociación Quisca. For more information, see karuara.com 📲 Read the full story - link in bio!

🔎 From a German court finding that Mercedes-Benz knowingly installed devices in its diesel cars to cheat emissions tests to whistleblowers speaking out against shoddy manufacturing processes in Boeing factories, here is some of the latest news of corporate wrongdoing! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit #737Max #Dieselgate #FreePalestine #LandRights #WaterPollution #BigFood #NoDirtyGold

An explosion at Aricell’s lithium metal battery factory in Hwaseong city in South Korea killed 23 workers in late June 2024. Most of the dead were low paid and undocumented female migrant workers from China who had not received properly training in industrial safety, according to their family members. 📲 Check out the full story - link in bio! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetOverProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit #ProtectAllWorkers

✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 The poem “Green Memory” was written as a critique of World War II by Langston Hughes, an African-American social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. #corpwatch #warprofiteers #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit

A KLM ad campaign that claimed customers could “fly sustainably” was declared illegal by a Dutch court in historic win against greenwashing, after the company was sued by Fossielvrij NL (Fossil-Free Netherlands) and Reclame Fossielvrij. 📲 Read the full story - link in bio! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #PeopleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit

🔎 From a Belgian farmer who has sued TotalEnergies over the impact of climate change to abusive working conditions of Zhejiang Ocean Family's tuna fishing vessels in Asia, here's what happened in the past week! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #Pe opleBeforeProfit #PlanetBeforeProfit #overfishing #PrivatePrisons #WorkerRights #climatecrisis #BigOil #SLAPP

Rio Tinto Zinc is quietly trying to restart a $2.4 billion plan to dig for lithium in the Jadar region of Serbia two years after the original mining permit was canceled in response to a massive popular uprising in 2022. 📲 Check out the full story - link in bio! #riotinto #greentransition #criticalminerals #corpwatch #environment

Tourist visits to the ruins of Machu Picchu, a historic Inca city in the Andes, are a major source of income for Peru. After the government turned over sales of entrance tickets to the site to Joinnus, a private company, an indefinite general strike was declared by local business owners, residents and travel unions. After a week long blockade, the government canceled the privatization. 📲 Read the full story - link in bio! #CorpWatch #CorporateGreed #CorporateAccountability #PeopleOverProfit #Privatization