Talk:Anti-corporate activism

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This was my first submission to Wikipedia. Was that pretty good for just writing whatever came to mind on the topic?

[edit] Unverified claims

Yeah, except that the article makes several unverified claims and does not make any reference to source material or research that has been done on the topic. It mainly references other WP articles. Writing a good WP article is not about "writing whater [comes] to mind on the topic." It's just like writing an encyclopedia entry, except the "encyclopedia" readers here are allowed to review what you've done, and the original writer should come back to this and improve it. Print encyclopedia writers must do research and make citations, and just because WP is a new type of sources does not mean article writers can get away with "winging" it. Because so many WP article writers do "wing" it, and get away with it, WP gets no respect from libraries and scholars.Azlib77 10:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Corporations often do NOT answer to shareholders. In recent years there have even been cases in which the corporate board has tried their darndest to not only keep shareholders in the dark but also out of meetings and refuse questions at annual shareholder meetings. Corporations answer to the bottom line. And that is the bottom line. -Sanjay Schmitt

Actually you are wrong. While you are right CEO's dont directly answer to shareholders - the danger is far greater. CEO's main job priority it to increase the value of the stock. Hence they are "answering" to share holders means it is completely rational for them to only pursue increasing profits despite the human or enviromental damage. It is impossible to miss if you are well read on history since this has been the trend since the industrial revolution.

This article leaves anarchists completely out of the anti-corporate movement.

Can people please sign with four tildes so we can know who's talking?. Julia Rossi 01:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Refs

There were a couple of refs that didn't show up in the way they were placed in the text so I fixed them and removed the tag since there are sources and now refs though there could be more. Over to you, Julia Rossi 02:08, 9 September 2007 (UTC)