Subvert is a podcast produced by the organization Corporate Accountability about the broad, global movement for corporate accountability. On this podcast, we’ll bring you stories from all over the world of organizers and movements fighting corporate abuse, advancing people-centered solutions, and building a world that prioritizes people over profits.
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In this episode, Lena and Michél chat with three organizers about a treaty known as the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights. Despite the dry-sounding name, this treaty has the potential to close an enormous loophole—which allows corporations to violate human rights in pursuit of profits—and protect people from corporate abuse all over the world.
Please check out the new comic that explains corporate capture at the UN mentioned by Mona, and the civil society sign-on letter publicly denouncing corporate interference in global governance mentioned by Gonzalo. Our guests on this episode are Keamogetswe Seipato from the Alternative Information and Development Centre, Gonzalo Berrón from the Transnational Institute, and Mona Sabella from the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or ESCR-net.
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In the second episode of Season 1, Lena and Michél talk with Corporate Accountability organizers and partners about climate liability. We discuss the Liability Roadmap, a powerful organizing tool we developed in coalition with allies on the front lines of the climate crisis all over the world, and hear about what’s at stake in the fight to hold Big Polluters liable for knowingly driving the climate crisis.
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For more information about the Liability Roadmap, visit http://liabilityroadmap.org/. Our guests on this episode are Sriram Madhusoodanan and Hellen Neima from Corporate Accountability; Nnimmo Bassey from Health of Mother Earth Foundation; and Tetet Lauron, from Rosa Luxemburg – Stiftung.
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In the first ever episode of Corporate Accountability’s podcast, Subvert, we’ll go to two virtual press conferences that we held in advance of annual shareholder meetings for Coca-Cola and Philip Morris International. At these virtual events, organizers and public health advocates spoke from their experience organizing against Big Food and Big Tobacco on five continents.