REPORT CARD
Johnston, A.J.
REPORT CARD , A.J. Johnston The Bottom Line RATING AMERICA'S CORPORATE CONSCIENCE by Steven Lydenberg, Alice Tepper Marlin, Sean O'Brien Strub, and the Council on Economic Priorities...
...The A.H...
...business interests and the ideological war on communism—the report focuses on the Central American countries of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, where AIFLD has discredited leftist unions, discouraged worker-peasant alliances, and trained so-called moderate labor leaders...
...covert action in Central America, this report is an important information source...
...It simply provides an easily understood economic analysis to show why we should abandon nuclear power and replace it with more efficient energy sources today...
...This report rates the strengths and weaknesses of 130 U.S...
...499 pp...
...The report also includes information on Political Action Committee (PAC) funding given to Federal candidates seeking office in 1984...
...76 pp...
...Robins Company has a tradition of philanthropy in Richmond, Virginia, giving money to a local university, the United Way, the Richmond Blood Service, and the 4-H Club...
...The AFL-CIO, in coordination with the State Department, has become an instrument of U.S...
...The Latin American extension of the AFL-CIO's international network is the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD...
...It also boasts the best record among pharmaceutical firms for promoting women and minorities to top managerial positions...
...In addition, it examines how small power systems operated by independent producers provide a more affordable option...
...SE, Washington, DC 20003...
...He cites the example of the Shoreham nuclear plant on Long Island, which, if operational, would cost consumers $5.9 billion more for their electricity than if the power were supplied by other sources...
...Created in 1961 as part of President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, it now operates in twenty-two Latin American countries...
...Yet this is the same A.H...
...Although it receives more than 90 per cent of its funding from the Federal Government, the agency is classified as a private voluntary organization...
...4.00...
...Under this title, it skirts Congressional scrutiny, even though much of its funding comes out of taxpayers' pockets...
...Robins that manufactured the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device that caused sterility and even deaths among its users...
...According to this report, it accounted for only 5.6 per cent of all energy consumed in this country during 1985...
...After establishing the little-known agency's motives—the promotion of U.S...
...14 pp...
...The report does not address social or environmental concerns...
...Solidarity as Subversion AIFLD IN CENTRAL AMERICA: Agents as Organizers by Tom Barry and Deb Preusch The Resource Center, Box 4506, Albuquerque, NM 87196...
...Robins, so with corporate America: The good mingles with the bad...
...For those concerned with U.S...
...Virtually every corporation rates low in at least one category...
...corporations in various categories: military contracting, involvement in South Africa, representation of women and minorities on boards of directors and among top corporate officers, and charitable contributions...
...Despite a barrage of more than 14,000 lawsuits against the company, it has consistently denied any wrongdoing...
...Shutting down existing plants could actually save consumers, businesses, and taxpayers millions of dollars, says author Joseph Kriesberg...
...Shutdown Pricetag THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF A NUCLEAR PHASEOUT by Joseph Kriesberg Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, 215 Pennsylvania Ave...
...14.95...
...The report defends new technologies, cost-effective conservation, and renewable energy to undercut rising costs...
...While the AFL-CIO and the Federal Government may enter into disputes over fair labor practices in this country, they join hands abroad in a team effort to undermine national labor unions, subvert progressive worker and peasant movements, and prop up repressive regimes...
...3.00...
...If you feel equipped to decide whether a company's progressive hiring practices outweigh its involvement in nuclear-arms production or vice versa, this report will help you select products manufactured by the lesser of the evils...
...How dependent is the United States on nuclear power...
...Johnston The Bottom Line RATING AMERICA'S CORPORATE CONSCIENCE by Steven Lydenberg, Alice Tepper Marlin, Sean O'Brien Strub, and the Council on Economic Priorities Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 30 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003...
...foreign policy in Latin America and other areas of the world, according to the authors of this report...
...As with A.H...
...What's more, it wasn't needed at all: Even if no nuclear plants had operated in 1985, the utility industry still would have had a reserve margin of 16 per cent...
Vol. 51 • April 1987 • No. 4
