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German Court Allows Peruvian Farmer To Sue RWE Over Climate Change
Richard Smallteacher
January 29th, 2018
Saul Luciano Lliuya, a farmer who lives near Lake Palcacocha in the Peruvian Andes, has sued Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE), a major German utility company, to pay for the impact of climate change on his community. A court in Hamm, Germany, has agreed to hear the case.
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New York City Sues Purdue Pharmaceutical And Others Over Opioid Deaths
Pratap Chatterjee
January 25th, 2018
New York city is the latest U.S. city to bring a lawsuit against Purdue Pharmaceutical and other companies involved in manufacturing and distributing prescription painkillers, known as opioids. Some 250 such lawsuits have been filed alleging that deceptive industry marketing practices have caused opioid overdose deaths to skyrocket.
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Nexa Investigated For Sale Of Surveillance Equipment Linked To Egypt Abuses
Erin Gifford
January 22nd, 2018
The Paris High Court has opened an investigation into Nexa Technologies Inc., formerly known as Amesys, for the sale of surveillance technology to Egypt that was allegedly used for torture and enforced disappearances under the authoritarian regime of president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Pratap Chatterjee
January 17th, 2018
Uber, the global taxi technology company, has been using a clandestine tool named "Ripley"to thwart government oversight of the ride-sharing company by restricting access to company computers. Ripley is likely to increase scrutiny of the company by government authorities given Uber's questionable use of several other high-tech tools.
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Activists Boycott Wendy's Over Treatment Of Women Tomato Pickers In Mexico
Erin Gifford
January 9th, 2018
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) plans to hold a protest outside the offices of Nelson Peltz, board chair of Wendy’s fast food restaurants from March 15-18. The protest will highlight ongoing human rights abuses faced by the agricultural workers in Mexico who pick tomatoes for the chain.
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One in Ten Amazon Workers In Ohio Uses Food Stamps To Survive
Pratap Chatterjee
January 5th, 2018
One in ten Amazon employees in Ohio needs government assistance to make ends meet, according to analysis conducted by Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland-based research group. This is despite the fact that, since 2014, the state has given Amazon over $125 million in subsidies to expand.
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Drone Inc.: Marketing the Illusion of Precision Killing
CorpWatch
August 7th, 2017
Drone Inc.: Marketing the Illusion of Precision Killing, reveals the contractors and technology behind the targeted killing machinery of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, demonstrating how critical errors and assumptions in this remotely controlled war has resulted in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent civilians.
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Drone, Inc. FAQ
August 6th, 2017
Drone, Inc. is a guide to the contractors and the technologies used in targeted killing by remotely piloted aircraft operated by the U.S. intelligence agencies and the U.S. military.
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