Firestone: Helping or hurting Liberians?

While I'm sure Dave Zirin's concern for the people of Liberia is sincere, his recent opinion piece regarding Firestone Natural Rubber operations contains a host of unfounded allegations and paints an unfair picture of the situation in Liberia. It is important to set the record straight...

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Firestone: Helping or hurting Liberians?

Part of the following timelines

Concerns raised over Firestone's sponsorship of US Super Bowl given alleged labour & environmental abuses in Liberia

Firestone chief fires back

[scroll down] Firestone's corporate spin - Official policy doesn't match plantation reality

Firestone: Helping or hurting Liberians?

Is the NFL on the right team?

Firestone lawsuit (re Liberia)

[PDF] Out of Bounds - Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Abuse After Kiobel

Corporate liability for violating international law under The Alien Tort Statute: The corporation through the lens of globalization and privatization

[PDF] Corporate Liability in a New Setting: Shell & the Changing Legal Landscape for the Multinational Oil Industry in the Niger Delta

Corporate liability under Alien Tort Statute: Don't elevate form over substance

Supreme Court May Consider Whether Companies Can Be Sued Over Human Rights [USA]

[PDF] Exaggerated rumours of the death of an Alien tort? Corporations, human rights and the remarkable case of Kiobel

The Global Lawyer: Corporate Alien Tort Rouses from Its Deathbed

Firestone wins Liberian child labor case in US

Victims and courts fight to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses, challenging Kiobel [USA]

[PDF] “Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Corp. y los litigios transnacionales sobre derechos humanos”

Kiobel's first victim: Flomo v. Firestone

[PDF] Think globally, sue locally: Out-of-court tactics employed by plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their advocates in transnational tort cases

ERI Submits Reports to the U.N. on U.S. Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Litigation

[PDF] Stakeholder Submission on United States Obligations to Respect, Protect and Remedy Human Rights in the Context of Business Activities

[PDF] Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches world’s first online portal profiling human rights lawsuits against companies

[scroll down] Firestone's corporate spin - Official policy doesn't match plantation reality

Firestone: Helping or hurting Liberians?

Is the NFL on the right team?

Liberia's Supreme Court Recognizes New Firestone Workers' Union Leadership

Don't Be Dubbed a Human Rights Abuser

Mittal Steel did the right thing – will Firestone? [Liberia]

[video] Firestone Liberia - Al Jazeera (Part 1 & Part 2) [scroll down]

Firestone's Liberian base called a 'gulag'

Rubber plantation workers strike over conditions, pay, child labour [Liberia]

Alien Tort Claims Act Lawsuit Alleges Slavery and Child Labor on Liberian Firestone Plantation

Workers talk of hardship at Liberia's Firestone

Labour group sues Bridgestone on Liberia rubber plantation