Author Archive
Corporate Olympics: Introduction
[responsivevoice_button] Now that the Olympics and Paralympics and all the associated
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26 Jul 2012
Calais: Olympics border control repression
[responsivevoice_button] Members of the group Calais Migrant Solidarity tell Corporate Watch
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26 Jul 2012
Greenwash Gold 2012 campaign
[responsivevoice_button] Richard Solly describes the Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign, which aims
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26 Jul 2012
The real environmental impacts of holding the Olympics in East London
[responsivevoice_button] Tom Antebi from the Ecologist and the Counter Olympics Network
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26 Jul 2012
Bread and circuses: the shady business of the International Olympic Committee
[responsivevoice_button] Ian Blunt and Beth Lawrence outline some key events in
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26 Jul 2012
Preparing London for the Corporate Games: the Docklands Planning Model
[responsivevoice_button] Ian Blunt explains how legislation and ‘democratic’ processes were adapted
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26 Jul 2012
Security Games: Surveillance, repression and activism around the London 2012 Olympics
[responsivevoice_button] Britain launched its biggest peace time security operation ever ahead
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26 Jul 2012
Soldiers trained in snatch squad tactics for the Olympics
[responsivevoice_button] “Large numbers” of soldiers from the Parachute Regiment and a
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05 Jul 2012
Cuadrilla under pressure from Fracktivists
[responsivevoice_button] This month activists have continued to campaign against the introduction
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05 Jul 2012
G4S dumps UPM, chooses new partners to house asylum seekers
[responsivevoice_button] The short-lived affair between G4S and United Property Management (UPM)
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03 Jul 2012
Revealed: the punishing reality of the coalition’s welfare reforms
[responsivevoice_button] Sanctioning – stopping someone’s benefits after a perceived infringement of
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30 Jun 2012
‘I was so frozen by stress after having my benefits stopped’
[responsivevoice_button] Karen Stromberg from the London Coalition Against Poverty describes the
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30 Jun 2012
Benefit claimant forced to accept Jubilee steward position for less than minimum wage
[responsivevoice_button] A benefit claimant was told by the Jobcentre that she
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07 Jun 2012
Care UK Factsheet, May 2012
[responsivevoice_button] Care UK, May 2012 Download the factsheet at the bottom
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20 May 2012
Is this the UK comeback of GM?
[responsivevoice_button] The growing pro-GM stance expressed by mainstream media and politicians,
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20 May 2012