| Websites in Allegedly Unethical Firms |
- Afternic Sucks
Consumer complaints about poor customer service and business practices.
 http://AfternicSucks.com
- Attention: Insurance Alert!
Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era subsidiaries, and suspicious name change.
http://www.insurance-alert.net/
- Baker Book House
Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly.
http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/marburg.htm
- British Aerospace
Committed to producing innovative, high-specification ways of killing people. Are you a feudal Middle Eastern dictatorship which tortures your political opponents? British Aerospace says: No problem! We just want your cash. [Site contains dark humour but it does have a very serious point.]
http://www.angloarabia.com/
- Canadian Airlines Retirees Class Action Against Air Canada
1500 Canadian Airlines retirees fight to have Air Canada reinstate their travel benefits.
http://www.factor6070.ca/
- Chevron's Dirty Hands
"Chevron... has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil rigs." By Danny Kennedy and Victor Menotti. [San Francisco Bay Guardian]
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Worldview/
- Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents
Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute.
http://www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html
- Critical Shareholders Organization
English version of German activist site that publishes information about firms they've found that violate human rights or basic environmental practices.
http://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/Aktuelles/ENGLISH/english.html
- Deadson & Wretches Symphony of Tar
Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver every summer.
http://bensonandhedges.org/
- Dow Jones
Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
http://www.dowethics.com/
- EndPredatoryLending.org
Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it.
http://www.endpredatorylending.org/
- FAIR - News Corp / Fox
Ongoing collection of reports on why they're still failing the 'fair and balanced' test. By Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
http://www.fair.org/media-outlets/newscorp-fox.html
- False Advertising by The Bosley Medical Institute
10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
http://www.bosleymedicalviolations.com
- General Dynamics and TRW
Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html
- Home Depot Sucks
Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites.
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/
- Huntingdon Life Science Protest
Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
http://members.tripod.com/~close_hls/
- International Paper Hall of Shame
OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
http://www.iplexingtonplant.org
- Jumpstart Ford
A campaign blaming Ford Motor Company on America's oil addiction, war, global warming, rainforest destruction, toxic waste and oil spills, human rights abuses, and air pollution.
http://www.jumpstartford.org/
- LeaseComm
Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
http://www.knology.net/~olefogie/INDEX.HTM
- Liz Claiborne: Sweatshop Production in El Salvador
Archived documentation and links by the National Labor Committee about abusive factories that produce Liz Claiborne clothing.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/liz/
- Made in China
National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/chinareport/table_of_contents.shtml
- Mitsubishi!
Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
http://www.mitsubishisucks.com
- Multinational Monitor
Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/
- Murderous U.S. Judges
Alleges that AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and US Federal Judge James M. Ideman conspired to murder filmmaker Gyorgy Fodor. Sign a petition to President Bush. Place a bet to win a bribe. [Note: Some disturbing photos.]
http://www.uspresident.net
- New York City Transit
Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
http://www.NewYorkCityTransit.com
- Notice to the Public Regarding GothCon
Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
http://www.gothcon.com/
- Oil is Thicker than Blood
The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan.
http://mathaba.net/sudan/bloodoil.htm
- Pepsi Pulls Rank At Oregon High School
"West Salem High cheerleader Andrea Boyes ... hit upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports game, with label bearing her school logo. But her plan ran into trouble when soft drink giant Pepsi got wind of it." News and reader comments. [Plastic]
http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/11/04/15534812
- Pressler and Pressler
Discusses questionable conduct of a collection firm and shows how to deal with it.
http://www.geocities.com/presslerclub
- Report Scams Here
The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
http://www.scam.com
- Six Firms Added to Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit
Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3638/9_41/63058111/p1/article.jhtml
- Sony Anti Environmental Efforts
A leaked document shows Sony Corp. has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting the pressure to reduce toxic waste from electronic manufacturing.
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html
- State Farm Sucks
Links to protest, news, and consumer educational sites about the USA mutual, bank, insurance, and annuities conglomerate.
http://moviereview.net/state/
- Stop Waste Management
Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray.
http://www.stopwmx.org/
- Sue Paypal
Complaints against Paypal and eBay.
http://www.suepaypal.org/
- Sustainable Energy & Economy: Report on Chevron
Alleges human rights abuses and complicity in killing Nigerian civilians, calling on World Bank to discriminate in its investments.
http://www.seen.org/pages/reports/chadcam04_28_00.shtml
- Tell on Apple
Site by a group of former Apple Computer Authorized Resellers suing the company for fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition and false advertising.
http://www.tellonapple.org
- The China Lobby's Campaign for Two-Way Trade with China
Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor]
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html
- The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow
"AOL, the internet service provider, paid a $3.5m penalty to the securities and exchange commission, the chief US financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case." By Nils Pratley. [Guardian]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html
- The Effect of 180solutions on Affiliate Commissions and Merchants
Shows that 180solutions diverts commissions from online merchants and affiliates using questionable tactics.
http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/180-affiliates
- The Fresh Market Employee Message Board
Message Board containing comments from employees who work at The Fresh Market chain of Grocery Stores located in the southeastern U.S.
http://pub86.ezboard.com/femployeemessageboardfrm1
- Tobacco from Spain
A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet (particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites.
http://www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk/
- Topsites LLC and MyDirectory LLC
An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details.
http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/topsites_topsitez_us.htm
- UNUM Provident Crime
Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident.
http://www.corporatecrimefighters.com
- University of Phoenix Sucks
Read student opinions and experiences.
http://uopsucks.com/
- Virgin Air Crew Lies
Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
http://www.virginaircrewlies.com/
- Wells Fargo Bank: The Worst Bank in the World
Detailed account of systemic problems with Wells Fargo.
http://www.greggman.com/pages/wellsfargo.htm
- Who's Who Historical Society
Tells about the practices of the Who's Who Historical Society, a company of Gibraltar Publishing: What they promise, how they recruit members, what the results of membership are and how they try to prevent members from cancelling their membership.
http://www.internationalwhoswho.de/
- iMind
True stories from the former employees of the now-defunct iMind Education Systems.
http://www.imind.com/
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