Corporate-Complicity

ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time

2017-10-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

ICE officials state in an October 2017 contracting document that McKinsey’s work has shown ‘quantifiable benefits,’ specifically citing ‘increased total removals and reductions in time to remove a detainee.’ This official acknowledgment reveals how McKinsey’s …

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Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket

1950-06-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

American Business Consultants Inc. publishes Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television on June 22, 1950, as an anti-Communist pamphlet-style book naming 151 actors, writers, musicians, broadcast journalists, and others in the context of purported Communist manipulation …

American Business Consultants John G. Keenan Kenneth M. Bierly Theodore C. Kirkpatrick Vincent Hartnett +5 more hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity broadcasting +1 more

Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten

1947-11-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, issues the two-page Waldorf Statement on November 25, 1947, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 24, 1947. The statement is …

Motion Picture Association of America Eric Johnston Louis B. Mayer Eddie Mannix Harry Cohn +16 more hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity first-amendment +1 more

HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"

1947-10-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The House Un-American Activities Committee opens its first postwar hearings on October 20, 1947, investigating alleged Communist influence in Hollywood with Chairman J. Parnell Thomas presiding and Robert E. Stripling serving as chief counsel. Drawing upon lists provided in The Hollywood Reporter, …

House Un-American Activities Committee J. Parnell Thomas Robert E. Stripling Walt Disney Jack L. Warner +8 more huac hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity +1 more

Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico

1942-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

Between 1942 and 1949, U.S. employers withhold 10% of bracero workers’ wages—totaling at least $32 million—depositing the funds with Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company of San Francisco for transfer to Mexican savings accounts through the Bank of Mexico and Banco de Credito Agricola. The …

Wells Fargo Bank Bank of Mexico Banco de Credito Agricola Mexican government U.S. agricultural employers wage-theft financial-fraud labor-exploitation corporate-complicity institutional-corruption