Interview with Caitlin Corner-Dolloff about the costs and consequences of bottled water.  For more info, visit Thinkoutsidethebottle.org

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Caitlin Corner-Dolloff wants you to think outside the bottle, the water bottle, specifically those plastic ones.  Corner-Dolloff has brought the global fight against corporate water privatization to Connecticut.  She is the Field Organizer for Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a 30+ year old non-profit dedicated to fighting corporate abuse. Read the full story

If the RNC8, Amy Goodman and others can be held on Conspiracy to Riot charges, then we should demand that the marketing and corporate executives of Wal-mart be arrested for Conspiracy to Riot ~ and for those stores in Minnesota, add with furtherance of Terrorism!

To me it is utterly amazing how our system of injustice can blatantly abuse the rights of citizens and organizations who are simply exercising their right to protest ~ yet let US corporations, under the guise of Free Market Economics, routinely impose economic shock techniques in their effort to capitalize upon targeting and manipulating the poor and working class for profit, aka The Poverty Business.

I am not a lawyer and so this writing is not a legal discourse on this subject. This piece simply arises out of just a little outrage at a system of injustice that employs State Violence to harm and then prosecute political dissenters (e.g. RNC8), yet this same system has served a blind eye to corporate instituted violence; if not actually being a co-conspirator of corporate induced violence. A most recent case in point is the tragic death of a Wal-mart Read the full story

Adbusters, the self-proclaimed journal of the mental environment, is providing non-consumers many ways to resist rampant consumerism today, also known as Black Friday.  The beginnings of Buy Nothing Day are attributed to Vancouver artist Ted Dave in 1992.  Dave sought to illuminate the obsession with hyper-consumption.  This year, amidst the economic meltdown, Adbusters is emphasizing the role of consumer culture in creating the crisis.  Read the full story