CorpWatch
an assumed name of
Transnational
Resource and Action Center
(TRAC)
a project of
The Tides
Center
PO Box 29344
San Francisco, CA 94129 USA
Tel: 415-561-6568 Fax: 415-561-6493
URL:
http://www.corpwatch.org
Email:
corpwatch@corpwatch.org
Description: An
anti-capitalist organization participating in numerous
anti-corporate attacks. Demands complete disclosure by for-profit
corporations while hiding as a non-disclosure project in the non-profit Tides
Center, where CorpWatch retains total secrecy about its revenue,
expenditures, projects and funding sources. The Center for the
Defense of Free Enterprise demands that CorpWatch make public the
usual disclosures as required of other non-profits by IRS
regulations.
OUTRAGE: The
revenue, funders, directors, and salaries of CorpWatch are SECRET and
not available for public inspection.
- Active in
anti-Exxon Mobil attacks
- Coordinates
on-site protests primarily through website and email network
- Generates
propaganda characterizing all business activity as evil and urges
the public to dislike business.
 Joshua
Karliner, founder and executive director, 1990-2002
Author, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of
Globalization
Has taught global environmental politics at the University of
San Francisco
Earth Summit coordinator for Greenpeace International
Grants to CorpWatch / Transnational Resource &
Action Center, records obtained from the Foundation Center grants database:
Foundation Name:
Turner
Foundation
Recipient: Transnational Resource and Action Center , San Francisco,
CA
Abstract: For
support of efforts to educate people around the country on the
relationship between transnational fossil fuel corporations and
climate change and to build support for action to solve the problem
of climate change.
Amount: $35,000
Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Recipient: Tides Center. Transnational Resource and Action Center ,
San Francisco, CA
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Recipient: Tides Center. Transnational Resource and Action Center ,
San Francisco, CA
Type of Support: Program development
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1999
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