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Long time scholar and activist Davis explains that locking up vast numbers of poor people of color "has literally become big business." She examines how corporate interest and institutional racism intersect.

Survivor groups in Bhopal have drafted the following letter to the government of India and we are asking organizations to sign on to the letter that cautions the Indian government to not drop extradition efforts of Mr. Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the Bhopal tragedy.

Survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and their supporters today celebrated their recent victory in the US Second Circuit Court Of Appeals with a simple feast. The November 15, 2001 decision by the appellate court has reversed nearly half of the rulings taken by Judge Keenan of the Southern District Court in New York when he dismissed the class action suit by the survivors last year.

NEW YORK -- Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) revealed today that Pabst Blue Ribbon is running an advertising campaign in Tibet stating that ''Pabst Blue Ribbon celebrates the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet.'' The student group is demanding Pabst issue an immediate public apology.

BRUSSELS (October 28 2002) -- On 28 October, on behalf of the Global Unions Group, the ICFTU is releasing a new database of over 325 foreign companies with business links to Burma -- links that help to sustain the brutal and repressive dictatorship in that country. While some prominent companies have withdrawn since the initial release of the database one year ago, Global Unions have added a further 92 companies which continue to do business with Burma or have been pursuing business links with the junta.

MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox said Thursday that he had ordered the release of two peasant environmental activists whose convictions on weapons and drug charges had been condemned worldwide.

IG Farben, the German chemical company that made poison gas for Nazi death camps, will set up a compensation fund for Nazi-era slave laborers within weeks, an official in charge of liquidating the once-great firm said Wednesday.

In closing a case that has led to outrage among environmental groups around the world, a district judge in the state of Guerrero found Rudolfo Montiel Flores guilty today of drugs and weapons crimes and sentenced him to nearly seven years in prison.

The country that would prefer to be known more for its World War II heroism will take its turn in examining how some in corporate America and official Washington also failed Hitler's victims.

The survival of four indigenous tribes of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest -- who have decided to live in voluntary isolation -- is being threatened by commercial logging, warned indigenous leaders who traveled here this week from the South American country.

Ignorance is bliss. This seems to be the state of mind of the Indian government for several environment-related issues, including that of hazardous waste like phosphogypsum (PG). A byproduct of the fertiliser industry, PG is used liberally by the construction industry and its use is promoted by the government.

The logging firm Botrosa, one of whose partners is Ecuador's Trade Minister Roberto Pea Durini, has been charged in court for harassing peasant farmers and environmentalists in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas, near the Colombian border.

As the Narmada valley prepares for the another illegal, inhuman and fatal submergence threatening the farms and houses of over 5000 project affected families in three states, the Maharashtra government has been supporting the further work on the damundermining the rights of its own tribals and the cost-benefit of the project for the state.

A boycott of Israeli products and leisure tourism was launched at the House of Commons last night. A packed meeting heard Members of Parliament Lynn Jones and George Galloway pledge their support for the boycott called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and 22 other organisations.

A senior scientist at Greenpeace issued a report today criticizing serious flaws in an Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry report on dioxin contamination in the predominantly African American town of Mossville, La.

Colombia has come under the scrutiny of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which begins Feb 7 to investigate alleged violations of the freedom to organise and of the human rights of workers.