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unusualmusic_lj_archive ([personal profile] unusualmusic_lj_archive) wrote2009-08-11 11:41 pm

Al Jazeera's People and Power Corporations on Trial

People & Power - Dumping Ground - 20 May 09


People & Power examines a legal case brought against one of the worlds largest independent oil traders, alleging it illicitly dumped toxic material.



People & Power - Alaska: A case of global proportions - 27 May 09



People&Power visits Alaska where Native American villagers have brought a law suit against energy giants, alleging one of the largest conspiracies in the world.




People and Power - Chiquita: Between life and law - 10 June 09


Fined $25m by the US federal court for funding a terrorist organisation, Chiquita, the US-based banana distribution company, is now facing a number of new lawsuits.



People & Power - Courtroom Intifada - 3 Jun 09



Continuing People & Power's series of films into how some of the world's biggest corporations are facing trial, Juliana Ruhfus travels to the West Bank village of Bilin.

Villagers and protesters are taking their longstanding campaign against Israel's seperation wall to the courts.

Helped by an Israeli legal maverick have now a filed a case against the international construction companies who are building the settlements.

They claim they have violated international human rights law by building on occupied land.






People & Power - Muddy Justice - 17 June 09

In the final part of its special series Corporations on Trial People & Power investigates the case of Volcano Lusi in Indonesia, victims allege it was a man made disaster.