Multinational Monitor

JUL/AUG 2008
VOL 30 No. 1

FEATURES:

No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital Age
by Jeff Chester and Kathryn Montgomery

The Youngest Market: Baby Food Peddlers Undermine Breastfeeding
by Annelies Allain and Joo Kean

Intoxicating Brands: Alcohol Advertising and Youth
by David Jernigan

How Things Work: The FTC's Revolving Door
by Robert Weissman

Fighting Demons: Addressing the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber

INTERVIEWS:

Commercializing Childhood: The Corporate Takeover of Kids' Lives
an interview with Susan Linn

Pill Pushers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in an Overmedicated Nation
an interview with Melody Petersen

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
an interview with Bill Talen

The Debt Creators: Shady Lending, Misleading Marketing and Hard Times
an interview with José García

DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editor

Behind the Lines

Editorial
Marketing Mania, Commercial Colonization

The Front
Freedom Flows in South Africa | Development and the Desert

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Greed At a Glance

Commercial Alert

Names In the News

Resources

LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD*

The July/August Lawrence Summers Memorial Award* goes to Roy Innis, chair of the Congress of Racial Equality, for comments made during his address to the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Resource Development Council for Alaska.

“There is an excellent example of this attack on economic civil rights right here in Alaska:  the recent listing of the Polar Bear under the Endangered Species Act. …

In raising [energy] prices, this listing will also visit the worst economic harm upon the low-income families and further handcuff the poor into the bondage of poverty. ..

I call on every one gathered here today, and every caring, thoughtful citizen in our great nation to join with me in challenging these Energy Killers, these modern day Bull Connors and George Wallaces, who are standing in the door, trying to prevent poor Americans from achieving Martin Luther King’s dream of equal opportunity and true environmental justice.”

Source: Resource Development Council, <http://www.akrdc.org/membership/events/annualmeeting/2008/inni sspeech.html>.


*In a 1991 internal memorandum, then-World Bank economist Lawrence Summers argued for the transfer of waste and dirty industries from industrialized to developing countries. “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (lesser developed countries)?” wrote Summers, who went on to serve as Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration and is the outgoing president of Harvard University. “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. ... I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.” Summers later said the memo was meant to be ironic.

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