Labor

Help Yourself to Deportation

by Diane Farsetta — August 6, 2008 - 3:08pm

Following a raid on a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa that's been condemned as "inhumane" and "a Kafkaesque travesty of justice," U.S.

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Associated Press, August 6, 2008

Puerto Rico: Not So Rico

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 30, 2008 - 9:36am

Ed Morales takes the 110th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico as an opportunity to talk about its status. "The United States invaded the island on July 25, 1898, and claimed it as booty after the Spanish-American War.

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Progressive Media Project, July 23, 2008

Depends Who You Work For: Half Empty or Half Full?

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 25, 2008 - 3:59pm

While the closing of 600 Starbucks stores is bad news for the 12,000 baristas who will lose their jobs, it's an economic plus for others. The coffee giant is ramping up PR efforts to shape its message about its contraction.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), July 23, 2008

Public Criticism for Public Strategies

by Diane Farsetta — July 23, 2008 - 3:04pm

Human rights and labor activists protested outside the Washington DC offices of Public Strategies, Inc., claiming that the public relations firm helps the Bridgestone / Firestone Tire Company "deflect attention away from the company's long history of exploiting workers and the environment on its rubber plantation in Liberia." The protest comes shortly after the publication of a

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The Stop Firestone Coalition, July 23, 2008

A Match Made In Political PR Heaven

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 10, 2008 - 2:10pm

Former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs and longtime George Bush advisor and confidante Karen Hughes has taken a position with PR giant Burson Marsteller.

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), July 9, 2008

Two Unions Are Finding Deals at Wal-Mart

by Sheldon Rampton — June 5, 2008 - 11:19am

"After waging an aggressive public relations campaign against Wal-Mart for three years, the company’s full-time, union-backed critics, who once vowed never to let up, are putting down their cudgels," writes Michael Barbaro.

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New York Times, June 5, 2008

Ohio Governor Snuffs out Ohio Anti-Smoking Foundation

by Anne Landman — May 8, 2008 - 4:57pm

The Ohio state legislature has seized $230 million from to the state's Tobacco Prevention Foundation and diverted it other uses. In the late 1990s, Ohio and other states sued the major tobacco companies to recover billions of dollars spent treating sick smokers.

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Advertising Age, May 8, 2008

The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies

by John Stauber — May 7, 2008 - 2:46pm

Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about "the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying," citing Burger King Corporation's spying on the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers through Cara Schaffer and her private security firm,

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New York Times, May 5, 2007

Daughter Busts Dad: Burger King VP Caught Running Dirty Tricks Campaign

by John Stauber — April 28, 2008 - 8:00am

Amy Bennett Williams, following up on her previous article reports, "As the Coalition of Immokalee Workers prepares to deliver more than 60,000 petitions to Burger King headquarters in Miami today, the daughter of Burger King's vice-president Stephen Grover confirmed her father is responsible for online posting

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News Press, April 28, 2008
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