Multinational Monitor

SEP 2000
VOL 21 No. 9

FEATURES:

Global Asbestos Justice: South African Asbestos Victims Win Right to Sue Cape Plc. in UK Courts
by Laurie Kazen-Allen

Choking off the Right to Sue: GAF's Campaign to Restrict Victims' Rights
by Charlie Cray

A Breath of Fresh Air: WTO Ruling Upholds France's Asbestos Ban, Rejecting Canadian Challenge
by Laurie Kazen-Allen

INTERVIEW:

A History of the
Deadly Dust

an interview with
Barry Castleman

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
Protest and Globalization

The Front
Milking Profits in Pakistan - The "Lawsuit Abuse" Scam

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Organizations Publications
Arms Trade Resource Center
World Policy Institute
New School University
66 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011
E-mail: hartung@newschool.edu
www.worldpolicy.org

Center for Defense Information
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20036
E-mail: Info@cdi.org
www.cdi.org

Peace Action
1819 H Street NW, #420,
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: jbridgman@peace-action.org
www.peace-action.org

Union of Concerned Scientists
2 Brattle Square
Cambridge, MA 02238
ucs@ucsusa.org
E-mail: ucs@ucsusa.org
www.ucsusa.org

American Anti-Slavery Group
198 Tremont Street, #421
Boston, MA 02116
E-mail: info@anti-slavery.org
www.anti-slavery.org
www.campaignforsudan.com

Amnesty International
322 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
E-mail: amnestyis@amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org

Christian Solidarity International - Canada
117 Tecumseh Avenue
CA-East London, Ontario
N6C 1S1 CANADA
E-mail: csicanada@sympatico.ca
www.csi-int.ch

Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
E-mail: hrwnyc@hrw.org
www.hrw.org

Project Underground
1916A MLK Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
E-mail: project_underground@moles.org
www.moles.org

Center for Responsive Politics
1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 1030
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: info@crp.org
www.opensecrets.org

Common Cause
1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: commoncause@grassroots.org
www.commoncause.org

Center for Public Integrity
910 17th Street, NW,
Seventh Floor
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: contact@publicintegrity.orgv
www.publicintegrity.org

Public Campaign
1320 19th Street, NW, Suite M-1
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: mengle@publicampaign.org
www.publiccampaign.org

S11.org
www.s11.org

Government Accountability
Project

1612 K Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: gap@whistleblower.org
www.whistleblower.org

Critical Mass Energy and
Environment Program

Public Citizen
215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: cmep@citizen.org
www.citizen.org

The Buying of the President 2000
by Charles Lewis and the Center
for Public Integrity
New York: Avon Books, 2000

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
6042 South Kimbark Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
E-mail: bulletin@thebulletin.org
www.bullatomsci.org

"Sudan: The Human Cost of Oil"
Amnesty International, 2000
www.amnesty.org

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
By Vandana Shiva
Cambridge, MA:
South End Press, 2000

World Hunger: Twelve Myths
By Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rossett
New York: Grove Press, 1998

Green Left Weekly
PO Box 394
Broadway, NSW, 2007
AUSTRALIA
glw@greenleft.org.au
www.greenleft.org.au

"The Jungle 2000"
By Felicia Nestor
and Wenonah Hauter
Washington, DC: Government Accountability Project and
Public Citizen, 2000

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
By Thomas Ferguson
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995

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