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Maquila Solidarity Network

The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) promotes solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.
MSN builds solidarity through Corporate Campaigns, Government Lobbying, Popular Education, International Links. MSN runs several campaign dealing either with a transnational corporation or an industrial sector.

Market Share Matrix Project

The Market Share Matrix is an ambitious project to map the global food system. With it's help it is possible to answer for example - amongst many others - the following questions:
- Which companies process the bulk of U.S. beef? What are their market shares?
- Which companies dominate food retail in the UK? What is the level of competition in this sector?
- Who are Canada's largest fertilizer producers?
- Who are the big soybean processors in Brazil?
- Where do Nestle, Cargill, or Monsanto operate?
The Market Share Matrix Project is designed to provide one-stop answers. The Project brings together data compiled by researchers around the world.

Mc Spotlight

McSpotlight is constructed by the McInformation Network, an independent network of volunteers working from 16 countries. McSpotlight claims that the organisation has the most press coverage of any website in the world ever, which may well be true.
McDonald's were chosen because a) everyone's heard of them, b) they're bullies who threaten legal action on almost anyone who dares criticise them, c) there's stacks of in-depth information available about them (thanks to the research that's gone into the McLibel Trial), d) the nature of their business means loads of contemporary issues are relevant, e) they pioneered various unwelcome practices which other companies have followed.

Misereor

MISEREOR is the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Germany. It' aims are to promote development, fight worldwide poverty, liberate people from injustice, exercise solidarity with the poor and the persecuted, and help create "One World".
Misereor is running a campaign "Fair Play" against exploitation in the toys industry. (Limited English version of the website.) Contact: postmaster@misereor.de


Multinational Monitor

The Multinational Monitor is published monthly bimonthly by Essential Information, Inc. The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.