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Jane AkreWhistle-blowing Fox reporter tried tocaution public about synthetichormone rBGH used in cows. Firedfor her efforts, she sued Fox, won,then lost on appeal on a technicality.

Ray Anderson CEO Interface, world’s largestcommercial carpet manufacturer.Had an environmental epiphanyand reorganized his 1.4 billiondollar company.

Joe Badaracco Prof. Of Business Ethics, HarvardBusiness School. In all his yearsteaching business, was neverasked so pointedly what acorporation is.

Maude Barlow Chairperson, Council ofCanadians. Privatization critic.We must re-define our relation-ship to nature, corporations andcontrolling institutions.

Mark Barry Competitive IntelligenceProfessional—ie. a corporate spy.Without guilt, uses deception toextract information fromcorporate executives.

Elaine Bernard Director, Labor Program, HarvardBusiness School. Morals overmarkets. We need to determinecertain things shouldn’t bebought and sold.

Edwin Black Author, IBM andthe Holocaust. Contends IBM’sexclusive technology acceleratedthe Holocaust with theknowledge of its CEO and otheremployees.

Carlton Brown Commodities Broker. Says goldtraders had one thing on theirminds as the twin towersburned.

Noam ChomksyInstitute Professor MIT. When youlook at a corporation, just likewhen you look at a slave owner,you want to distinguish betweenthe institution and the individual.

Chris Barrett & Luke McCabeFirst “corporately-sponsored”university students. Convinced abank, First USA, to pay boththeir $40,000 tuitions.

Peter DruckerThe first management guru.Spoke with IBM CEO Thomas J.Watson several times aboutIBM’s business relationship withthe Third Reich.

Dr. Samuel EpsteinProf. emeritus, Occupational &Environmental Medicine, U ofIllinois. One in every two menget cancer, and one in everythree women get cancer.

Andrea Finger Spokesperson for Disney-builttown of Celebration, population5,000. Disney brand speaks ofreassurance, it speaks oftradition, it speaks of quality.

Milton FriedmanNobel Prize-winning economist.Asking a corporation to besocially responsible makes nomore sense than asking abuilding to be.

Sam GibaraChairman, former CEO GoodyearTire, world’s largest tirecorporation. Says corporationstoday have more power thangovernments.

Richard GrossmanFounder, POCLAD, Program onCorporations, Law andDemocracy. POCLAD initiatesdialogue on the authority ofcorporations to govern.

Dr. Robert HareU. of British Columbia Psyc h o l o g yProfessor and FBI’s topconsulting psychologist onpsychopaths. The corporation isthe prototypical psychopath.

Gabriel HerbasEconomist. Professor ofEconomics in the StateU n i ve r s i ty, Bolivia. O u rgovernments, sadly, are justpuppets for these companies.

Lucy HughesV P, Initiative Media, world’slargest media-buying corpora t i o n .Created Nag Factor study to helpc o r p o rations get kids to nag theirparents to buy.

Ira JacksonDirector, Center for Business andGovernment, Kennedy School atHarvard. Author, Capitalism witha Conscience.

For more information, please contact Good Company CommunicationsKatherine Dodds (604) 722-3004 goodcompany@hellocoolworld.com

Robert KeyesPresident and CEO, CanadianCouncil for International Business.Lobbies for business interests ont rade issues. Doesn’t like to usethe word “corpora t i o n ”.

Mark KingwellPhilosopher, Cultural Critic,Author. The primary question is:how do we make corporationsdemocratically accountable?

Naomi KleinAuthor, “NO LOGO”, “Fences andWindows”. Branding aficionado.Branding isn’t advertising; it’sthe new production.

Tom KlineVP Pfizer Inc. world’s largestpharmaceutical corporation, on atour of Pfizer’s philanthropicinitiatives near its Brooklynfactory.

Chris KomisarjevskyCEO Burson MarstellerWorldwide, a leading global PRagency. Helps big corporations“have a voice” and share “howthey feel about things.”

Dr. Susan LinnProf. Of Psychiatry, BakerChildren’s Centre, Harvard. Critic of the Nag Factor studyand of exploiting children’sdevelopmental vulnerabilities.

Robert MonksCEO LENS; Founder, InstitutionalShareholder Services; pioneeringshareholder activist. Has headeda dozen publicly tradedcorporations.

Sir Mark Moody-StuartFormer Chairman, Royal DutchShell. Presided over Shell duringBrent Spar fiasco and thehanging of Ken Saro Wiwa andeight other activists.

Michael MooreAcademy Award-winning docu-mentary filmmaker, best-sellingauthor. The problem is the profitmotive: for corporations, there’sno such thing as “enough”.

Oscar OliveraThe Coalition in Defense of Wa t e rand Life. Bolivian anti-wa t e rp r i vatization activist. Trusts in thep e o p l e ’s capacity for “reflection,rage and rebellion.”

Jeremy RifkinPresident, Foundation onEconomic Trends. Author of 16books on the impacts oftechnology. Culture is primary.

Anita RoddickFounder, The Body Shop. Pioneerof the “socially responsible”corporation. [appears only in TVversion]

Dr. Vandana ShivaPhysicist, ecologist, feminist andseed activist. In every period ofhistory... eventually, when youcall a bluff, the tables turn.

Clay TimonCEO Landor and AssociatesGlobal branding specialists –Visa, Fedex, BP, etc. WhenDisney wants to market adultfare, they brand it Touchstone.

Michael WalkerPresident, Fraser Institute.Sweatshops like Nike’s factorieshelp the world’s poor get ‘plumpand healthy’.

Robert WeissmanEditor, Multinational Monitor.Corporate crime specialist.Exposed the top 100 criminalcorporations of the last decade.

Steve WilsonWhistle-blowing, fired Foxreporter who tried to cautionpublic about synthetic hormonerBGH used in cows.

Irving Wladawsky-BergerVice President IBM, Technologyand Strategy in IBM Servers.Dismisses Edwin Black’sallegations against IBM ashaving been “discredited.”

Mary ZepernickCoordinator, POCLAD, Programon Corporations, Law andDemocracy. POCLAD initiatesdialogue on the authority ofcorporations to govern.

Howard ZinnHistorian, author, A People’sHistory of the United States.Fascism rose in Europe with thehelp of enormous corporations.

Charles KernaghanD i r e c t o r, National Labor Committee.By exposing Walmart and theKa t hy Lee Gifford bra n d ’s laborp ractices, made the sweatshopabuses common knowledge.

Jonathon ResslerCEO Big Fat Inc. Undercovermarketing specialist. Comparespeople influenced by his cam-paigns as “roaches” taking the“brand bait” and spreading it.

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