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I skimmed the report.[1] Very few corporation names can be found, unless I missed them. I found some attributions in highlight stories, e.g. Tate & Lyle Sugars
by oefrha 5y ago
I skimmed the report.[1] Very few corporation names can be found, unless I missed them. I found some attributions in highlight stories, e.g. Tate & Lyle Sugars in a Thailand case of sugar plantation taking land by force; but those are few and isolated.
IMO a list of names of people murdered means almost nothing to any reader beyond the symbolic value. Now, if you also attach the names of responsible/beneficiary corporations in each case, especially the multinationals, it would be a lot more powerful.
[1] https://www.globalwitness.org/documents/20190/Last_line_of_defence_-_low_res_-_September_2021.pdf https://www.globalwitness.org/documents/20190/Last_line_of_d... (warning: it has `content-disposition: attachment` so it will be downloaded rather than opened by your browser)
- scatters 5y agoAre you saying that an environmental activist being murdered is only newsworthy if you can find a way to pin the blame on a Western corporation? That seems a fairly callous attitude to take.
- oefrha 5y agoWho said Western? Are corporations or specifically multinationals uniquely Western? What a weird thing to get defensive about.
- scatters 5y agoYes, of course multinationals are Western - they're creatures of the Western system of bilateral investor-rights treaties and the largely Anglo-American corporate legal system. Chinese and Russian companies may operate outside their own territory, but they don't have the distributed ownership and management to qualify as multinational.
- oefrha 5y agoComing up with your own narrow definition of a widely accepted term and attacking someone else for using its widely accepted definition is a one-way ticket to a toxic interaction, which ends here.
- zdkl 5y ago> if you instead attach the names of responsible/beneficiary corporations Then you'll get annihilated by slander cases before any other inquiries even start. :(
- chrisseaton 5y agoIt’s not slander if it’s true. And if it’s not true then don’t say it.
- harimau777 5y agoYou also have to be able to afford to prove that it's true in court.