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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 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