• Walmart destroys Mexico's cultural heritage

    Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured right, is now underneath a Walmart, after Walmart bribed local officials. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit.

     

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    Walmart Watch

    Walmart is the biggest private sector employer in the world.  Whether they’re undermining wages or building stores on ancient archaeological sites, let’s keep an eye on them.

     

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    Justice for Aminul Islam

    Bangladeshi garment workers’ union leader Aminul Islam was tortured and murdered in April this year. Support the campaign to bring his killers to justice.

     

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    Bangladesh: Demand Justice!

    More than 1,000 workers died – and the lives of their families ripped apart - when a factory making clothes for Primark, Matalan and Mango collapsed. Demand that these UK high street retailers take responsibility for their supply chains.

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    Tell Walmart and Disney to compensate Tazreen fire victims

    The Tazreen Fashion fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers in November last year. Some brands have compensated family members for their loss, but Walmart and Disney refuse.

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    Nestle Chairman says water isn’t a human right.

    Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck says that water isn’t a human right, and that privatisation is the best way to ensure fair distribution. Tell him he’s wrong.

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    Making fruit fair

    29 October 2012

      Mbide Charles Kude, General Secretary of the Fako Agricultural Workers Union (FAWU) in Cameroon, visited the UK last as part of the Europe wide Make Fruit Fair campaign. We were fortunate enough to catch up with him and hear about conditions faced by workers on banana plantations in Cameroon, and how campaigners and activists in [...]

    Support plantation workers in Cameroon

    17 May 2012

    Banana Link is working in partnership with the Fako Agricultural Workers Union (FAWU), which organises plantation workers in the South West Province of Cameroon, to develop a project to educate and empower banana workers and their union. As investment increases in export production in Central and West Africa, Banana Link is strengthening relationships with African [...]

    Stop supermarkets abusing their buyer power

    1 May 2012

    BY Jacqui Mackay from Banana Link The Make Fruit Fair campaign, coordinated by Peuples Solidaires (France), BanaFair (Germany), Nazemi (Czech Republic) and Banana Link (UK), has launched a petition calling on the European Union to ‘Stop supermarkets abusing their buyer power’. More than 5000 people have signed – add your name today here and help [...]

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