Three top officers of the Corporation for American Indian Development are under investigation by the San Francisco District Attorney's office for alleged misuse of program funds. Community members are claiming that the corporation's director -- with the complicity of two board members -- used the firm's money for personal legal, home-improvement and vacation expenses.
First published a year ago, ('The Export of US Toxic Wastes,' The Nation, October 3, 1987), this CIR research into a growing international problem is being widely disseminated around the world.
The world's worst industrial accident -- more than 2,000 people dead. Where will it happen next? The tragedy of Bhopal may be only the tip of a disastrous iceberg. Seldom reported industrial accidents occur with increasing frequency in developing countries. There, financially strapped governments are ill-equipped to impose the safety standards necessary to prevent 'future Bhopals.'
The world's worst industrial accident -- more than 2,000 people dead. Where will it happen next? The tragedy of Bhopal may be only the tip of a disastrous iceberg. Seldom reported industrial accidents occur with increasing frequency in developing countries. There, financially strapped governments are ill-equipped to impose the safety standards necessary to prevent 'future Bhopals.'
This book included a chapter combining material from a paper presented by Weir at the 'Seminar on Hazardous Wastes: The Unmet Challenge' (Bureau Europeen de L'Environnement, Brussels, December 1987) and an article jointly written by Weir and Porterfield.
The world's worst industrial accident -- more than 2,000 people dead. Where will it happen next? The tragedy of Bhopal may be only the tip of a disastrous iceberg. Seldom reported industrial accidents occur with increasing frequency in developing countries. There, financially strapped governments are ill-equipped to impose the safety standards necessary to prevent 'future Bhopals.'
Despite the serenely bountiful appearance of California's Salinas Valley, recent years have brought intense social upheaval, turning thousands of farmworkers out of steady jobs with a dozen agricultural firms. Union contracts have fallen one by one and at least one observer believes the situation has regressed to that of a generation ago.
Computers now record break times, clock work pace and rank performance levels for some 10 million U.S. workers. Management defends electronic monitoring as conducive to increased productivity and fairer employee evaluations, but workers find the practice oppressive, detrimental to customer relations and a major source of stress-related health problems.
ABC broadcast portions of a documentary on Britain's spy satellites which were not allowed to air in the UK for reasons of 'national security.' The investigation revealed the existence of the Zircon satellite and described how it had been funded secretly to avoid accountability in Parliament. CIR provided research for the documentary.
