ABOUT CORPWATCH INDIA
CorpWatch India works to support anti-corporate globalization movements
in India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations
to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies
in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns
in India.
CorpWatch India is a project of CorpWatch. CorpWatch counters corporate-led
globalization through education and activism. We work to foster
democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization
-- a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental
justice.
History
CorpWatch India is the result of numerous discussions with activists
in India spanning a wide array of issues.
The fact that India provides some of the most vibrant resistance
to corporate globalization was never a doubt in our mind. The ongoing
anti-dam movement in the Narmada valley, and the 1993 rally in Bangalore
that mobilized over a half million farmers against what is today
known as WTO, are testimony to the strength and sophistication of
Indian social movements. So the purpose of our engagement with Indian
groups was not so much on how we could help them but rather, how
we could create a dialogue with Indian movements and those around
the world in order to share information, skills and strategies for
organizing -- in order to strengthen the global movement for holding
corporations accountable to human rights, environmental justice
and labor rights.
The CorpWatch India website provides a platform for Indian movements
to articulate their demands and for us to mobilize a key constituency
in the US and around the world that will take action in support
of movements in India -- by applying pressure in the home countries
of the corporations where they are more susceptible to public pressure.
The initiative will also provide timely information resources to
Indian campaigns and link struggles in India with those worldwide.
By publishing insightful and important stories from India on a regular
basis, we also anticipate that the CorpWatch India website will
become a valuable resource center for activists and journalists
both in India and around the world.
Our work will not merely exist in cyberspace. Over time, the CorpWatch
India initiative will provide important opportunities for dialogue
on social movements between Indian groups and their counterparts
in other countries. We plan to host activist exchanges and organize
strategic meetings and workshops.
We invite you to join us in building this important cross-border
initiative by visiting us regularly, joining our email list and
not hesitating to contact us with information you think would be
of interest to the initiative.
The CorpWatch India team would like to thank the many allies who
helped us realize this project. And in particular, we would like
to thank the CorpWatch staff, who conveyed to us all of the experience
and knowledge they have gained creating our sister website, CorpWatch.org
over the past six years.
In solidarity,
Nityanand Jayaraman, CorpWatch India Organizer
Nadia Khastagir, CorpWatch India Producer
Amit Srivastava, CorpWatch India Coordinator
CorpWatch India
PO Box 29344
San Francisco, CA 94129 USA
Tel: 415-561-6472 Fax: 415-561-6493
URL: http://www.corpwatchindia.org
Email: india@corpwatch.org
CorpWatch India is a project of CorpWatch -- "Holding corporations
accountable locally and globally"
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