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Welcome to the SourceWatch portal on global corporations, the citizen's encyclopedia on global corporations that you can edit.
The portal is the home page of the Global Corp Wiki, a collaborative project to build an information resource investigating international corporate conduct, especially as it relates to labor, human rights, public health and social responsibility.  If you would like to help document information about corporations and their international activities, this is the place for you. This project relies on citizen journalists to expand, update and create articles on topics. To create an article about a corporation, or to edit an existing article, enter the name of the corporation below: You can view the existing articles here. If this is your first experience of a wiki, don't worry - help is at hand. To learn how you can edit any article right now, visit SourceWatch:About, SourceWatch:Welcome, newcomers, our Help page, Frequently Asked Questions, or experiment in the sandbox. If you need help, feel free to post a note to User talk:Bob Burton or User talk:Diane Farsetta. Or, you could post a query to the 'talk page of any other user (by clicking the 'Talk" next to the name of other users at the Special:Recentchanges page. ExxonMobil is the world's largest integrated oil company, engaged in oil and gas exploration, production, supply, transportation, and marketing around the world. It has proved reserves of just less than 21 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Exxon Mobil's refineries can handle more than 6 million barrels per day, and the company supplies refined products to more than 40,000 service stations in 118 countries that operate under the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands (including more than 16,000 in the US). According to a recent study by the US Union of Concerned Scientists, has spent more than $19 million to promote skepticism about global warming, funding think tanks, publications and web sites that are not peer reviewed by the scientific community. The company is also responsible for environmental disasters including the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. With regard to human rights, ExxonMobil has been associated with serious violations related to its Chad-Cameroon oil project and pipeline, and in Indonesia the company is being sued by plaintiffs who allege that they suffered human rights violations at the hands of Indonesian military that was hired by ExxonMobil to provide security for its natural gas facilities. Plaintiffs allege that ExxonMobil hired these troops knowing they would likely engage in massive human rights violations against the local population. For information and current news about the GlobalCorpWiki project on SourceWatch, visit our companion website, the Global Corporations Forum. For instructions on how to create and edit corporate profiles, read the GlobalCorpWiki Corporate Profile Training Manual. Also check out the list of corporate profiles we've already created.
The headlines below highlight current news from our companion website, the Global Corporations Forum.
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In the morning of August 5th, the police started its raid to forcefully break the strike at Ssangyong Motors Pyeongtaek Plant, literally turning the factory into a war zone. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) strongly condemns the insane police raid that can bring deaths, and demands the immediate withdrawal of police forces. 
The ongoing Triumph struggle, was taken a notch higher with a protest march organized by the Triumph workers union in Thailand. On the 24th of July, the Triumph union in Thailand decided to hold a march from the World Trade centre in the Chidlom district to the swiss embassy in the wireless road.
