CorpWatch

CorpWatch (formerly: TRAC Transnational Resource & Action Center) is a research group based in Oakland, California, USA. The group works to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations. The group is notable for its campaigns against Nike sweatshops, private military contractors, war and disaster profiteering, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Global Compact. CorpWatch gained notoriety when it broke the story of the Nike sweatshop scandal in Vietnam by releasing a confidential audit.

[edit] Recent Projects

Crocodyl: Pratap Chatterjee, author of Iraq Inc, Program Director and Managing Editor [1] started a project called Crocodyl, with Phil Mattera of the Corporate Research Project, Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy and Tonya Hennessey of CorpWatch. The project aims to research corporations using wiki technology and global South/North collaboration and is built on an open content model; all contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike and also under the GNU Free Documentation License. The Project Manager of Crocodyl is Ian Elwood, and it's Editors are Phil Mattera, Charlie Cray, Tonya Hennessey and Pratap Chatterjee.