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NIKE to get human rights?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday January 19, 2003 04:56author by del prestonauthor email delprest at yahoo dot co dot uk

Corporations demanding the right to deceive! http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.htm

NIKE is to argue in the US supreme court that corporations deserve as much rights as a human, in particular that it has the right to free speech - in other words the right to lie publicly without reprisals.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.htm

By Thom Hartmaan

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made me laugh.....................espanol
author by -publication date Mon Jan 20, 2003 03:28author address author phone

oh giggle giggle giggle
its the old chestnut (true story) about one activists letters to NIKE to get "sweatshop" on his trainers as personalisation.
A free offer.
NIKE refused.
letters went on for ages.
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32272&group=webcast
indicates NIKE is global psychic current yesterday.
lots of posts on NIKE.

and this is a giggle giggle essay on Kronstadt which has prompted a video showing suggestion.

and keep it with the folk who are looking through everything nodo50 are currently passing Ven. along.
for a while. digest explain.
look for open letter Caracas to Havana
http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario/coberturaalternativa.htm

activists weird bunch of malcontent misfits.
How did I ever get into this? I could have had an ironed shirt by now.
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32275&group=webcast

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/24576

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