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The Bad Mood Keeps Rising

In the chapter The New Anticorporate Activism ' Naomi Klein discusses the emergence of new phenomenon - a network of human-rights activists that has exposed many organizations to damage . Moreover , Klein traces the key differences and similarities between anticorporate campaigning and apartheid actions . The central point of the chapter is that one has to fight corporations and organizations whose sole purpose is to benefit from repressive government policies and to increase profits disregarding social and corporate responsibilities . Thus , the role of anticorporate activists is to

reveal violations committed by multicultural corporations and organizations . Klein argues the role of anticorporate activists is crucial to contemporary business world as multicultural corporations don 't consider , in many cases , their responsibilities and obligations to the public (pp .325-326

The negative moment is that anticorporate activism takes many forms ranging from socially and environmentally responsible to radically terrorist . Moreover , the tasks of the groups are different as well . For example , the Yellow Pages is an international hacker group whose goal is to hack computer networks of huge corporations (p .326 ) Klein stresses that it is economic globalization that has caused emergence of anticorporate activists and many corporations are forced to fight as well . Anticorporate activism goes far beyond labor and trade unions Their members are both young and old representatives whose education ranges from elementary school to colleges and university . They come with large investments claiming that multicultural corporations and organizations are behaving illegally and , thus , sinfully . As anticorporate activists...

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