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Beyond the Boardroom: A Workshop on Corporate Research
by Demilitarize Pittsburgh Saturday, Jun. 02, 2007 at 1:46 AM
patrickyoung@riseup.net

Beyond the Boardroom: A Workshop on Corporate Research Monday, June 4 at 7:00 pm Thomas Merton Center—5215 Penn Ave in Garfield

Beyond the Boardroom: A Workshop on Corporate Research
Monday, June 4 at 7:00 pm
Thomas Merton Center—5215 Penn Ave in Garfield

Today 51 of world's largest 100 economies are multinational
corporations. These corporations are playing an increasing roll in
our everyday lives. They sell us the water we drink to the food we
eat; they operate many of the hospitals we go to when we're sick and
and the schools our children attend; prisons, police and the military
are not even insulated from this increasing trend toward privatization
and corporatization.

Despite their rapid rise in influence and power, information on these
mammoth institutions is kept strikingly out of the popular dialogue.
Who runs them? How are they connected? And perhaps most importantly:
how can all of us have a say in how these corporations operate?

Join Demilitarize Pittsburgh: the War Profiteers Education and Action
Network for a brief introduction to corporate research. We'll take a
look at several publicly available (but well hidden) sources for
information on companies including:
-Annual Reports
-SEC 10K
-Proxy Statements (Def 14A)
-IRS 990 (for grants and foundations)
-Other SEC, FEC, and IRS documents…

Additionally we'll talk about how to analyze all of this information
to zero in on the company's
-Decision Making Process
-Profit Centers
-Growth Plans
-Key Relationships

And finally we'll look at how NGO's, labor unions, and community
organizations have turned this research into strategy to confront
corporate power and demand accountability.

For further information contact Patrick Young at patrickyoung@riseup.net

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