[corp-focus] Happy Holidays and a Gift for Focus on the Corporation

[robert weissman]

Dear Friends,

2008 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Focus on the Corporation column.

I'm writing to ask you to celebrate this anniversary, and help us 
continue for another decade and beyond, by making a tax-deductible 
donation to Multinational Monitor magazine. You can do so by clicking here:

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/donate.html

Or, you can send a check made out to Multinational Monitor, and mail it to:

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The material in Focus on the Corporation columns is drawn primarily from 
the bi-monthly Multinational Monitor magazine, which I edit.

Multinational Monitor is a subscription magazine, but we make all of its 
content available online for free.

We don’t take ads from beer companies or junk food sellers. We don’t 
have a rich backer. And we haven't been offered a government bailout.

But it does take real money to publish the magazine and to support the 
column.

Please help us out by contributing online here:

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Russell Mokhiber and I started the column in 1998 to report critically 
on corporate power. We called it "Focus on the Corporation" as a 
counterpoint to the organization "Focus on the Family," and more 
generally as a rebuke of the failure of the media and policymakers to 
trace overriding social and economic problems to their roots in 
concentrated corporate power.

Over the past decade, the column has built up a pretty good following. 
Some of you occasionally post responses to the column on the 
Mulinational Monitor Editor's blog, or at CommonDreams, HuffingtonPost 
or other websites where it appears. But many more of you respond with 
emailed comments. Over the years, we've developed a nice online 
community of sorts, and I've benefited tremendously from criticisms, 
shared information, and collaborative thinking with online friends.

These are hard economic times -- and they will get worse before they get 
better -- but I know you value the column. Won’t you please contribute 
what you can today?

For a peaceful and just New Year,

Robert Weissman