Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes
By Amy Goodman
"Who is a corporation and what are its responsibilities? If companies can affect lives in ways that make those lives worse, so that people are suppressed or terrorized ... you are basically ascribing to eternity the fact that companies can act with both impunity and immunity." Continue
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