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Training in research sources and methods enables you to make the most of many tools available. Visit these other webpages for further information on training and workshops. |
Don't hurry. The word research comes from the the French word recerche (to search closely), from the Latin circare (to wander about), from circus (circle)... "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" |
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Topics A to Z:
ACTIVIST RESEARCH -- GUIDES & GROUPS THAT DO ACTIVIST RESEARCH
ADVERTISING
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100 Leading National Advertisers [PDF Adobe software] Commercial Alert mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy. Obligation, Inc "reminding businesses and governments of their responsibility to children." |
Center for Commercial Free Public Education Center for Media & Democracy publishers of PR Watch. Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education Citizens Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools Telemarketing Do Not Call List 1-888-382-1222. Firms that call numbers on the list face fines of up to $11,000 for each violation. |
AGRIBUSINESS
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Agribusiness Accountability Initiative of the Center of Concern and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. Agribusiness Center of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is a clearinghouse for information on agribusiness corporations, news, and activist campaigns. Corporate Agribusiness Research Project Al Krebs, the master of agribusiness muckraking, monitors the economic, social and environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities, ecosystems and consumers. Farm Subsidy Database from Environmental Working Group. |
GM Watch monitors genetically modified foods. Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Ram's Horn information and analysis of the whole food system, including food security, biotechnology & genetic engineering, corporate ownership, agriculture and farmers, international trade, organic standards & pesticides, government regulation, and consumer's rights. |
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E.F. Schumacher Society and SmallIsBeautiful.org |
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ANTITRUST
see MONOPOLY
AUTOMOBILES
Culture Change / Sustainable Energy Institute and the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium.
BANKS
BankTrack network of civil society organisations tracking the operations of the private financial sector and its effect on people and the planet.
Berne Declaration monitors the role of Swiss corporations, banks, and government agencies.
IFIwatchnet monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks.
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Rainforest Action Network Global Finance Campaign
Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
BIOTECH
Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
Primal Seeds untangling ourselves from the monocult.
ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration) formerly RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International).
BOYCOTTS
see also CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNSBoycott Action News from Co-Op America.
National Boycott List from AFL-CIO.
BRAND NAMES
FindOwnerSearch Brand name owner search by Uchisearch
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
see POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS & LOBBYING
CHILDREN & CORPORATIONS
see ADVERTISING
CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen explores the spiritual, psychological, cultural, economic, and environmental underpinnings of our culture's unbiquitous destructiveness and asks for sane, effective, and appropriate responses.
Primitivism: Index of Articles
Social Criticism Review 1,000 online readings on modern society and its ills, with a focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific-technical complex.
COMMERCIALISM
see ADVERTISING
COMPUTERS
see TECHNOLOGY
CONSUMER ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
Ethical Consumer looks behind the brand names and helps you to vote with your wallet.
Council on Economic Priorities From the folks who brought you "Shopping for a Better World." CEP ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach. It's all relative, so Chevron and Citicorp have been on their Honor Roll.
Recalls.gov database of recalled consumer products from the Consumer Products Safety Commission, Food and Drug Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard, and Agriculture Department.
CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS
Association Transnationale citizen portal on corporations (English, French and Spanish versions).
Business Ethics Network is a project of the Corporate Ethics International which builds the capacity of its members in their corporate campaign work, by providing education, facilitating collaboration, and increasing recognition of their campaign successes.
Campaignstrategy.org from Chris Rose.
Center for Corporate Policy working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Corporate Accountability Project
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Corporate Power Information Center
Corporate Responsibility Coalition in the UK.
Corporate Watch (UK) monitors social and environmental impacts of large corporations.
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CORPORATE CHARTERS & THE CORPORATION AS AN INSTITUTION
State-level corporation records summary and liks from LLRX
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund includes a Manual For Revoking Corporate Charters and other information for individuals wishing to pursue charter revocation activities.
The Corporation documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
CounterCorp sponsors of the annual Anti-Corporate Film Festival
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) Richard Grossman, Ward Morehouse and others urging us to redefine corporations rather than regulate them.
CORPORATE CRIME
see also CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and MONOPOLYAlien Tort Claims Act cases from the corporate lobby group USA Engage. Organizations using ATCA to fight corporate abuse include EarthRights International and Center for Constitutional Rights and International Labor Rights Fund
Corporate Crime Reporter includes a report on The Top 100 False Claims Act Settlements.
Corporate fraud database compiled by Law.com
The Corporate Library investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness.
Endgame database of corporate fines & settlements
Settlements, Verdicts and Rulings (Lawyersandsettlements website)
ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Line from the US EPA.
Government Accountability Project monitors governmental wrongdoing and protects whistleblowers.
New Internationalist reports on world poverty and inequality; their July 2003 issue featured the Corporate Crime Wave.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RECOL database
Anti-scofflaw proposal to keep corporate criminals from getting government contracts.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on federal government enforcement activities
US Federal Trade Commission decisions
Ten Worst Corporations as ranked by Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter) and Robert Weissman (Multinational Monitor)
Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
Ten Worst Corporations of 2004
Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
Ten Worst Corporations of 2002
Ten Worst Corporations of 2001
Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
Ten Worst Corporations of 1999
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
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Global Exchange's "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005
Global Exchange's "14 Worst Corporate Evildoers"
CORPORATE DOCUMENTS, GOVERNANCE, and SHAREHOLDERS
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Corporate documents: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) gives instant access to the annual, quarterly, proxy, and other reports filed by corporations. EDGAR Online and 10K Wizard and Free EDGAR and EdgarScan provide access to SEC documents including insider trading and other information. Energy utility documents Form 1 annual report submitted by major electric utilities. Corporate docs available from U.S. states by Kathy Biehl at LLRX.com |
Non-U.S. corporations: The Scannery searches the websites of more than 10,000 publicly traded companies around the world. Corporate governance standards from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [PDF Adobe software] CANADIAN corporations file their disclosure documents with SEDAR and SEDI is Canada's System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders. Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles. |
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Identifying shareholders of particular corporations: Compact Disclosure (a commercial database available in some libraries) SecForm4.Com insider trading CNN Money company profiles and shareholder lists Google Finance company profiles MSN Money Central - shareholder lists MSN Money Central - insider trading Yahoo Finance company profiles and shareholder lists Reverse listing directory (EDGAR Online People) - find a person’s stockholdings. |
Corporate directors: Corporate directors are named in public companies' annual shareholder proxy form (Form DEF14) which can be found by searching the SEC's EDGAR database. They Rule can be used to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the US in 2001. |
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CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS LOOKING AT ACTIVISTS
ActivistCash.com, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, "provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding."
Capital Research Center studies non-profit organizations, which it defines as "organizations that promote the growth of the welfare state." CRC principals include people from Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, etc. CRC's projects include Green Watch.
Corporate Social Responsibility Watch (CSRwatch and SRIwatch) from the Free Enterprise Education Institute.
NGO Watch from the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society.
ACTIVISTS LOOKING AT CORPORATE FRONT GROUPS
Center for Media & Democracy includes PR Watch, Disinfopedia, and other projects.
CLEAR Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research from the Environmental Working Group. Tracks industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement.
Disinfopedia directory of public relations firms, think tanks, and organizations that influence public opinion and public policy.
Full Frontal Scrutiny exposes front groups that hide or obscure their identity, membership or sponsorship. A project of Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy.
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
Non-Profit Organizations With Ties to Industry database from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
PR Watch monitors the public relations industry.
Western States Center has a Wise Use Public Exposure Project.
CORPORATE LOBBYING ORGANIZATIONS
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Industry Functional Advisory Committees (IFAC) |
U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion |
CORPORATE NEWS
Local/regional business news from American City Business Journals
News by industry from Yahoo.
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
CORPORATE PROFILES
see also CORPORATIONS RANKED and SHAREHOLDERSSome of these websites are designed by and for corporations, so they do not provide much history or perspective, much less any critical thinking. But they are places to find descriptions of corporations' operations, analyze corporate documents, and gather basic facts. A more critical and broad perspective can be found under other headings such as CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS and CORPORATE CRIME and in Endgame's Directory of Transnational Corporations.
Gorporate governance rankings from Institutional Shareholder Services
, covering board of directors, audit, charter and bylaw provisions, anti-takeover provisions, executive and director compensation, progressive practices, ownership, director education. Go to Yahoo Finance, enter the company' stock symbol, click on Profile, then look at Corporate Governance.Corporate Information covers public and private corporations in the U.S. and in other countries.
The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness. Their website includes Corporate and Director Interlocks in the USA.
Crocdyl is a Wiki database of corporate profiles by using a global network of researchers, journalists and nonprofit organization members, including the Center for Corporate Policy, CorpWatch, and Good Jobs First.
EuroPages the European Business Directory
FundingUniverse company histories.
Hoover's corporate profiles, rankings, links to corporate websites.
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
Yahoo Finance corporate profiles, news, shareholder lists, links to corporate websites.
US SEC EDGAR database of annual reports, proxy forms, etc. To search a particular corporation click here.
Sourcewatch Center for Media and Democracy project documenting public relations and propaganda
Strategis business and consumer information from Industry Canada, including corporate profiles.
Students for Informed Career Decisions
US Business Reporter The Digital Research Tool of Business.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Big Insiders tracks corporate governance, insider trading, and political influence. BCSD and Corporate Governance Principles Business Ethics magazine lists the "100 best corporate citizens" each year. Business for Social Responsibility - Issue Briefs Caux Roundtable Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) Code For Corporate Responsibility (C4CR) Minnesota-based effort to enact Robert Hinkley's 28 Words to Redefine Corporate Duties: "but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, the public health or safety, the communities in which the corporation operates, or the dignity of its employees." Confronting Companies Using Shareholder Power: A Handbook on Socially-Oriented Shareholder Activism from Friends of the Earth Corporate Accountability Project Corporate Governance aims to enhance the return on capital through increased accountability. Good links page. Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm specializing in corporate governance and board effectiveness. Corporate Responsibility Code Book by Deborah Leipziger has a list of codes summarized [PDF Adobe software] Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Council on Economic Priorities ranks corporations on the environment, diversity, charitable giving, working conditions, family benefits, and community outreach. Council of Institutional Investors has a membership roster. Dow Jones Sustainability Index EthVest Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility database of shareholder resolutions. FTSE4Good Index Series Global Citizenship 360 (GC360) software data-gathering and reporting tool developed by Future 500 that tracks shareholder, workplace, community, marketplace and environment. Global corporate governance index Institutional Shareholder Services and FTSE Group of Britain. Global Reporting Initiative is a set of sustainability reporting guidelines. Global Sullivan Principles |
Goldman Sachs Corporate Governance Guidelines Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) coordinates shareholder resolutions co-filed by different investors. While ICCR's members are faith-based organizations, its broader constituency includes non-religious groups who look to it for guidance on social issues. ICCR's website includes a database of social-issue shareholder resolutions currently being filed Investor Environmental Health Network Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) provides research, software products, and consulting services to clients representing institutional investors, corporations, law firms and other organizations. Journal of Corporate Citizenship Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award New York Stock Exchange Section 303A governance standards NGO Guidelines from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Northwest Corporate Accountability Project's David E. Ortman gives step-by-step information on the shareholder resolution process and guides you through the maze of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. OECD corporate governance standards [PDF Adobe software] ONEREPORT SRI World Group data requests from 20 research and rating organizations. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Principles of Corporate Governance Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College ResponsibleInvesting.org Natural Capital Institute analysis of the holdings and screening categories of SRI (socially responsible investment) mutual funds. Smart Growth Network Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000) Students for Informed Career Decisions Trucost Plc emissions and natural resource usage in financial as well as quantity terms. United Nations Global Compact United Nations Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights |
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CORPORATE SUBSIDIES
Corporate Welfare Information Center
Earmark Watch database of "pork barrel" spending measures
Export Credit Agencies (ECA-Watch)
Federal Procurement Data Center
FedSpending searchable database of US government spending by OMB Watch
Green Scissors annual reports from Friends of the Earth et al. 2002 report and 2003 report [PDF Adobe software]
Illinois Corporate Accountability
Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy from Citizens for Tax Justice.
No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies, from Good Jobs First.
Stakeholder Alliance directed by former corporate accountant Ralph Estes, author of Tyranny of the Bottom Line.
State subsidies databases and State procurement contract databases linked at the Good Jobs First website
True Cost Clearinghouse economic, health, and social costs of pollution, worker exposures, and resource exploitation.
USASpending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes
CORPORATIONS RANKED BY NUMBERS (SALES, PROFITS, ASSETS, ETC)
Forbes magazine provides lists of the largest 500 U.S. public and 500 U.S. private corporations, the richest people, the highest executive pay, and an annual report on U.S. industry.
Fortune magazine ranks the largest 1000 U.S. corporations, the top 500 global corporations, the corporations most admired (by corporate executives!), 500 Asian corporations.
Hoover's Includes corporate profiles, rankings, and links to corporate websites.
Institute for Policy Studies Top 200 [PDF Adobe software]
Pacific Sustainability Index reports on corporations and industries from Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College
CORRUPTION
see POLITICS & MONEY
DRUGS
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies.
Drugs@FDA regulatory history of pharmaceuticals.
ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
National Center for Employee Ownership
Natural Capitalism (based on book by Paul Hawken & Amory & Hunter Lovins)
New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
People-Centered Development Forum
Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology (Vandana Shiva)
ENERGY
Endgame Oil Industry Information
CleanEdge clean-tech markets, trends, and opportunities.
Climate Action Network working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Climate Solutions accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
Oil Change International exposes the true costs of oil and facilitates the coming transition to clean energy.
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network from Institute for Policy Studies & Transnational Institute; includes global map of energy infrastructure projects.
ENVIRONMENT
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Amazing Environmental Organization WebDirectory Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research tracks the industry-supported backlash against the environmental movement. ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History On-Line) from the US EPA. Eco-Portal full text searches of reviewed environmental internet content. EnviroLink The Online Environmental Community. Environmental Background Information Center tools and strategies people need to confront corporate power. Strategy Guide, Court Research Guide, Proxies for People shareholder activism, Operation SLAPP Back. Environmental justice principles Environmental justice resources NYU Environmental and Land Use Law Center. Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide Environmental Media Services expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues. Environmental reports on corporations of them, gathered together by Hitochi Suzuki. |
European Pollutant Emission Register of industrial facilities by facility name, location, industry or pollutant. Global Directory for Environmental Technology Global Footprint Network tracks how much individuals, organizations, cities, regions, nations or humanity as a whole consumes. GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) includes factory farm, nuclear, public health, and corporate accountability issues. International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site publishes expensive reports. League of Conservation Voters Environmental Scorecard Millennium Institute: State of the World Indicators Money and Environmental Politics from Environmental Working Group. Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly Waterjustice campaigns against water privatisation initiated by the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory. |
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
see WEALTH
FOOD
see also AGRIBUSINESS, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, etcCampaign to Label Geneticallly Engineered Foods
Consumers Union has a food safety section.
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Drug Compay Watch Keeping tabs on the drug companies
USDA PACA database of fruit and vegetable growers
FREE TRADE
see GLOBALIZATION
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RECORDS
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FOIA Contacts at Federal Agencies FIO.net resources for research Freedominfo.org Freedominfo.org global survey Government Accountability Project How to Use the Federal FOI Act |
LOUIS Library Of Unified Information Sources (US federal documents) National Freedom of Information Coalition list of State and National FOI Resources Project On Government Oversight Truth-Telling Project of Daniel Ellsberg |
Search Systems Free Public Records Directory Public records links from BRB Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Merlin Information Services links page Getting Public Records |
GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest Challenging the FTAA, NAFTA & WTO: Community Research Toolkit from the DataCenter. Export Credit Agencies ECA-Watch Foreign Policy in Focus project of Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies. International Business Research (Rutgers Univ) trade treaties, commissions, etc. |
International Forum on Globalization Federation of International Trade Associations People Centered Development Forum founded by David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World. Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Transnational Insitute (TNI) is a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists working on democratisation, the global economy, peace and security, and shadow economies. USTR's Industry Trade Advisory Committees WTO Watch from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
GOVERNMENT see U.S. GOVERNMENT
HEALTH
see TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
HUMAN RIGHTS
Amnesty International website includes Human Rights Links and country reports.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Global Witness exposes the link between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Native Americans and the Environment
INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Inner City Press covers banking, community reinvestment, redlining, insurance, telecommunications issues, etc.
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
NameTraq gathers news articles containing specific last names.
Copernic has free software which will save and update Internet searches.
Highbeam tracks mulitple news sources.
NewsTrove tracks mulitple news sources.
Wayback machine from Internet Archive stores earlier versions of websites.
Who is? identifies who is behind a website.
LABOR
(separate webpage)
LAND
OneWorld's Big Issues Land Rights
LAW & LEGAL RESEARCH
see also CORPORATE CRIMECapitol Reports guide to federal and state agencies and laws.
All Law Internet legal gateway.
FindLaw gateway to state, federal, and international law.
LexisONE free online version of LexisNexis.
Nolo self-help law center.
PACER (ublic Access to Court Electronic Records) U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records
Zimmerman's Research Guide online encyclopedia for legal researchers.
LOBBYISTS
see also POLITICS & MONEYHired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry.
Center for Responsive Politics Start here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else.
Lobby Filing Disclosure Program from the US Senate Office of Public Records
LobbyWatch monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
State lobbying disclosure databases linked at Good Jobs First website
Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc.
Where Are They Now? tracks Congressional staffers through the revolving door.
MAPS & PHOTOS
MAQUILADORAS
Border Information and Outreach Service
MEDIA
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Search Tools MediaQ PR tool that integrates media contacts and content NewsTrove searches multiple news and websites simultaneously. Highbeam eLibrary searches multiple news and websites simultaneously. Free and subscription versions. |
Links to News Media
Common Dreams homepage has good links to mainstream and alternative news sources. Drudge Report major U.S. media and syndicated columnists. WebActive progressive streaming media. |
Media Monopoly Media: Who Owns What from Columbia Journalism Review. Well-Connected includes a media ownership tracker by city/state/zipcode. Big Ten Media Conglomerates from The Nation magazine. Medialens monitoring the media for corporate and government distortion. |
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
MILITARY
see WAR
MINING
Earthworks (formerly Mineral Policy Center) protecting communities and environment from the impacts of mining and oil and gas.
Project Underground monitors oil and mining impacts worldwide.
Mines and Communities worldwide database from the muckraker Roger Moody.
Mountain Justice Summer fights mountaontop removal, steep slope strip mining, and other forms of surface mining for coal.
Who Owns The West? Environmental Working Group report on companies with mining rights on US public land.
MONOPOLY & ANTI-TRUST
Endgame list of corporate mergers
Antitrust Case Browser from St Olaf College
Antitrust Case Summary Browser
Competition Online maintains a list of Competition, Anti-trust and Regulatory websites
European Commission competition website lists mergers and anti-trust cases
NameBase
http://www.namebase.org/ index of individuals, corporations, and groups compiled from 600 investigative books published since 1962.
NEWS
see MEDIA
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy from the Center for Science in the Public Interest report on corporate funding of non-profits.
Guidestar database of nonprofit organizations.
IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosure
NUCLEAR
Nuclear Information & Resource Service includes background information on nuclear-related issues, including economics, decommissioning, radiation, reactor safety, radioactive waste, and more.
NucNews compendium of news about nuclear, plutonium, uranium, radioactivity, arms sales, and wars.
Downwinders "Welcome America, We're All Downwinders Now!"
PETROCHEMICALS
see Oil Industry Information Resources
POLITICS & MONEY
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American Voter Hotlist Congressional Quarterly's links to political websites, with emphasis on the federal. Buying of the President from the Center for Public Integrity Center for Public Integrity investigative journalism to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. Center for Responsive Politics Start here for data on Incumbent Campaign Finance, PAC contributions, Donor Lookup, Lobbyists, and much else. Campaign Finance Information Center from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). Includes database of federal contracts granted to corporations, state campaign finance databases, tip sheets for doing investigations, etc. Common Cause Holding Power Accountable Congressional Votes database from Washington Post lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991. FundRace searches donors by zipcode. Guidestar database for tracking non-profit organizations. Hired Guns searches lobbyists by state and industry. IRS Political Organization Filing and Disclosure database of non-profit political organizations that contribute money to candidates. |
Members of Congress and the people who pay them from Open Secrets. Mother Jones 400 profiles the 400 biggest individual contributors to political campaigns. National Institute on Money in State Politics Follow the Money. Personal Financial Disclosure forms filed by members of US Congress and Executive branch from Open Secrets. Project Vote Smart Tracking the performance of over 13,000 political leaders: President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators. Public Campaign Advocacy group for "Clean Money, Clean Elections." Soft Money Laundromat from Common Cause. Sunlight Foundation promotes transparency and accountability by US Congress. Tax Lobbying Report: Follow the Money Trail A public service of Tax Analysts Inc. Transparency International global coalition against corruption. |
POLLS
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PollingReport summarizes many current poll results. National Network of State Polls Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Polling Organizations (Yale University) |
Princeton University Survey Research Center Program on International Policy Attitudes Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Statistical Resources on the Web, Political Science, Public Opinion (University of Michigan) |
PRIVACY
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ACLU In Congress on Privacy Issues Center for Democracy and Technology Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Privacy Information Center Law: Privacy News from Yahoo. |
PUBLIC RECORDS
see FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RECORDS
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Center for Media & Democracy includes PR Watch, Disinfopedia, and other projects.
Disinfopedia directory of public relations firms, think tanks, and organizations that influence public opinion and public policy.
Holmes Report "knowledge and insight for public relations professionals."
Jack O'Dwyer's Inside News of PR
LobbyWatch helps monitors lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.
RECYCLING
Computer Takeback Campaign includes a directory of places to recycle computers.
Earth 911 Directory of Reuse & Recycling Services sponsored by Home Depot, Hewletter Packard, and ESRI.
Links to paper recycling from Endgame Clearinghouse on Forests & Corporations
Recycle My Cell Phone Campaign
REFERENCE WORKS
see also INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES and TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES
SHAREHOLDERS
see CORPORATE DOCUMENTS
SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
SLAPPs are often filed by corporations as a way to intimidate and silence activists. There are ways to fight back and protect both yourself and your activism.
General Information on SLAPPs from the California Anti-SLAPP Project.
First Amendment Project page on SLAPPs.
Survival Guide for SLAPP Victims
Organizations for Help from the California Anti-SLAPP Project website.
Civil Liberties Defense Center
SOCIAL CHANGE
WiserEarth includes a directory of social change groups organized into 46 areas from Agriculture to Democracy to Human Rights to Work. Part of the World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility from Paul Hawken’s Natural Capital Institute.
STATISTICS
EconData.net 1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources.
FedStats gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
CityTownInfo.com population, real estate, income, weather, maps.
Curious about how people in different locations commute to work? Need to know the time zone for anywhere in the US? Or the zip codes?
SUBSIDIES
see CORPORATE SUBSIDIES
SUSTAINABILITY
see ALTERNATIVES
TAXES
see CORPORATE SUBSIDIES
TECHNOLOGY
Bytes for All computing and internet for the majority of the world.
Center for Democracy and Technology
Social Criticism Review 1,000 online readings on modern society and its ills, with a focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific-technical complex.
TechThuggery exposes companies in the tech industry that exploit monopoly power.
TELEPHONE & ADDRESS DIRECTORIES & PEOPLE SEARCHES
Freeality reverse call phonebooks, reverse email and cell phone
White Pages people, businesses, reverse phone and address lookup, zip code, area code
World Pages people, businesses, reverse lookup, US and worldwide
TOXICS, HEALTH & SAFETY
see also ENVIRONMENTAccidents - toxic chemical spills
: reported incidents through year 2002 are in the old US EPA Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS). Incidents since year 2000 are available by searching the new US Coast Guard National Response Center.Chemical Scorecard map-based website to access TRI and other toxics data; from the Environmental Defense Fund.
Environmental Health News scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. Also publishes Our Stolen Future and Protecting Our Health.
European Pollutant Emission Register of industrial facilities by facility name, location, industry or pollutant.
Health Alliance International promotes "the health and welfare of disenfranchised peoples worldwide and work toward more equitable delivery of health services;" its publications include Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health.
Investor Environmental Health Network
MapCruzin community mapping resources, environmental risk, chemical exposure, right-to-know.
Misfortune 100: largest air polluters in the USA
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (U.S. OSHA) databases include company-specific Establishment Searches and decisions by the OSHA Review Commission.
OSHA Data is a private for-profit company selling online and preprogrammed reports of federal regulatory compliance and enforcement data for every business nationwide. Custom hard copy and electronic data extractions are available by purchase.
Pesticide Action Network International and PAN North America and Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS)
PVC: The Poison Plastic is part of the BE SAFE campaign of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly covers democracy, environmental justice, hazardous substances and technologies, landfills, incinerators, pesticides, organochlorine compounds, risk assessments, human and environmental health, corporate power.
Right-To-Know Net online environmental health and safety information, offering user-friendly versions of EPA and OSHA databases.
Toxic Alert accessible information about health and toxics from an alternative health consultant.
Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) from the National Library of Medicine.
TOXMAP (National Library of Medicine)
Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) is a US EPA database listing toxic emissions from specific manufacturers. EPA also has an EnviroMapper but better databases and mapping are available from Chemical Scorecard, Right-To-Know Net, and other organizations.
U.S. HUD Environmental Maps correlate US development and housing programs with EPA information on brownfields, hazardous wastes, air pollution and waste water discharges.
World Health Organization has publications, databases, and links.
TRADE
see GLOBALIZATION
TRANSLATION
U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Capitol Reports US and US states agencies and laws. Congressional Research Service reports from the Center for Democracy & Technology. Congressional Research Service reports reports from Univ of Maryland. |
Govee US states and local US governments. Governments on the WWW links to government agencies worldwide. GPO Access from University of California GPO Access to U.S. government databases LOUIS Library Of Unified Information Sources (US federal documents) Thomas Legislative Information |
WAR
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Arms Trade Resource Center - World Policy Institute. Center for Defense Information Fiat Pax militarization of science and the university Military Spending Working Group - Federation of American Scientists. National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament Stockholm International Peace Research Institute U.S. Arms Sales - Mother Jones magazine. Military information links - US Naval Dudley Knox Library. |
U.S. military contractor statistics - US DOD. Foreign military contractors and US corporate arms sales in 2001 and in 2002 from Government Executive. War Profiteers - from CorpWatch. Includes news and company profiles. Weapons production databases - SIPRI. Top 100 weapons manufacturers - SIPRI. |
WEALTH
see also CORPORATE SUBSIDIESannual bankruptcy filings from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (personal and corporate).
Corporate Profitability by Industry: US National Averages
European Corporate Governance Institute tracks executive compensation practices in Europe.
Executive compensation -- XBRL comparison of SEC data
Executive copensation Complete Compensation Database from FreeERISA.
Executive Excess from United for a Fair Economy.
Executive Paywatch from AFL-CIO.
Federal Reserve Bank has lots of statisics including the Survey of Consumer Finances.
New Internationalist Publications reports on issues of world poverty and inequality.
Public Education Network reports on national and global inequities.
Shared Capitalism Institute includes statistics on ownership.
Top Hat plans for executives.
U.S. Census Bureau has lots of statisics including the Asset Ownership of Households.
WISE USE
see PUBLIC RELATIONS
WOMEN
Madre demanding human rights for women and families.
Womens Human Rights Resources from Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto.
WorldViews peace and justice in world affairs.
