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For Indians Trained in the West, It Can Be Hard to Go Home
Source: The New York Times

NEW DELHI — When 7-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country.

Blueberry Grower Shunned Over Child Labor Charges
Source: Associated Press

Wal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields.

From the I @!$%# You Not File: Business Aims to Relax Bans on Products Made with Child & Slave Labor
Source: openleft.com

We've seen corporations use "free trade" agreements to quietly camouflage their push for exploitable labor in broader arguments about globalization. What we haven't seen is corporate special interests openly push for U.S.

Sites that help you lodge complaints
Source: CNET.com

A compilation of websites that allow you to make "complaints" online

EBay sellers plot site boycott 
Source: The Washington Times

Sellers on EBay are planning a boycott of the online marketplace to protest a new fee structure and other changes they say are unfair.

Top Five Ways to Integrate Social Justice into your Business Practices
Source: sistersinbiz.com

Consider integrating these into your mission statement and encouraging others at your place of work to engage on developing a company-wide social justice mission statement.

How Disney is Redefining the Kingdom
Source: msnbc.com

The Mice That Roared: How Disney bosses Bob Iger and Dick Cook are redefining the kingdom, Hollywood and themselves.

Does fear of customer lawsuits drive Cingular's action against Internet cell phone brokers?

The U.S. Federal District Court (11th Circuit) issued a Restraining Order in Cingular Wireless LLC vs. Data Find Solutions, INC ., James Kester, 1ST Source Information Specialists INC., Kenneth W. German, Steven Schwartz, filed December 2005 (email me for a copy).

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