Corporate Predators: New Book Announcement

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

Dear Friends:

This note is a self-serving exception to the rule that this list is
exclusively for international tobacco-related material.

Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, a legal weekly, and
I have written a book, Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and
the Attack on Democracy, published by Common Courage Press and now
available at local bookstores.

I am writing to let you know about the book (which includes a couple
tobacco-related items) and especially to invite those of you in the
Washington, DC area to come to a book release party we are having Tuesday,
April 27 at 6:00 pm at Vertigo Books (1337 Connecticut Ave., NW). 

If you'd like more information on the book, you can look at our web site
<http://www.corporatepredators.org>. You can buy the book through the web
site, or from our publisher at 1-800-497-3207.  A notice on the book
follows below -- please pass it to friends, family and colleagues.

That ends this commercial interruption. 

Robert Weissman
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		   *** NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT ***
			CORPORATE PREDATORS: 
  	THE HUNT FOR MEGAPROFITS AND THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
  	      by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Wealth disparity, megamergers and the resulting consolidation of corporate
power, commercialism run amok, rampant corporate crime, death without
justice, pollution, cancer and an unrelenting attack on democracy. In a
compilation of compelling snapshots from two of the leading reporters on
corporate power, Corporate Predators documents the price we pay for living
in a corporate-dominated society. 

Available at local bookstores or from http://www.corporatepredators.org or
from Common Courage Press, 1-800-497-3207

"The incisive and sharply focused snapshots presented here give a
telling portrait of some of the most dangerous forces undermining what is
decent and hopeful in American and global society. A warning that should
be taken very seriously." -- Noam Chomsky

"Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman are veteran trackers of the
corporate beasts that pillage the globe. In Corporate Predators, they are
on the tail of GM, Exxon, Philip Morris and other snakes, showing how they
prey on workers, the environment and consumers." -- Jim Hightower

"Mokhiber and Weissman chronicle the immense power corporations have
acquired for themselves and the effect they have on our health, economy,
communities, environment and democracy. This book should serve as a call
to action for us to reclaim our democracy from the corporate predators."
-- Lois Gibbs

"Go forward readers who wish to be leaders in the advancement of
justice -- what Daniel Webster once called 'the great work of men on
Earth' -- and savor the writings that will motivate more and more women
and men to band together in organizations that build a more just
democracy." -- from the introduction by Ralph Nader

To order, visit your local bookstore, or click on
http://www.corporatepredators.org or call toll-free at 1-800-497-3207