Amazon.com Hours after workers began organizing at Seattle offices that management began an anti-union campaign: 24 Months between union drive and company’s announcement it would close the Seattle service center and outsource some of its customer service operations to the New Delhi, India-based Daksh.com corporation: 3 Boeing Price for provision in Defense Appropriations Bill that allows the Air Force to lease 100 Boeing 767 tankers over a 10-year period: $20 billion Billions by which this deal exceeds the cost of a direct purchase of 100 Boeing 767s: 7 Citibank Cost of gas project financially backed by Citibank in Peru’s Amazon: $2.7 billion Composite number of tree species, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and mammals found in the region: 1225 Dupont Year DuPont reassigned 50 women at its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia when their blood was found to contain a compound called perfluorooctanoic acid [PHOa], used in the processing of DuPont’s product, Teflon: 1981 Year DuPont sent a memo stating, “The worst case scenario is that [PHOa] could be classified as a large ‘C’ carcinogen.”: 1996 Exxon Fine ExxonMobil Corp. was ordered to pay in December for illegally discharging hazardous waste in Staten Island and denying the action: $11.2 million Ford Ford’s Alternative Minimum Tax Rebate under proposed House GOP “stimulus bill”: $1,000,000,000 Number of Ford workers laid off in Jan. 2002: 35,000 Number of North American plants closed: 5 Honeywell Contract amount awarded to Honeywell by U.S Dept. of Defense for landmine production from 1985-95: $336,480,000 Miles of “unexploded ordinance” in Afghanistan, as of October 2001: 724 million miles Kraft Food Number of people who suffered allergic reactions after eating Kraft-manufactured Taco Bell taco shells made with StarLink corn containing Cry9c, a genetically engineered protein with pesticidal qualities approved only for livestock consumption: 210 Monsanto The year Monsanto became aware that an industrial coolant it produced (PCB) was harmful to the environment: 1937 Number of years Monsanto concealed the danger of PCB contamination from the public: 56 Pounds of PCB Monsanto was leaking into a local river every year: 50,000 Nike Average number of hours workers at Third World Nike factories are forced to work weekly: 70 Amount of money Nike allocates annually to enhance its image: $1,000,000,000 Hourly wage of a worker at a Nike factory: 20 cents Phillip Morris Number of people who die each year as a result of smoking Phillip Morris-produced tobacco products: 200,000 Amount of money Phillip Morris spent annually to change its public image: $150,000 Royal Dutch Shell Number of Nigerian activists who opposed Royal Dutch Shell’s oil operations in Ogoni who were executed after a secret military tribunal found them guilty of murder: 9 Total number of Ogoni citizens who have died fighting against Shell and the Shell-backed Nigerian military: 2,000 Sara Lee Number of people who died recently after eating listeriosis-infected Ball Park Franks hot dogs and other Sara Lee-produced meat products: 21 Total fine paid by the food company, pleading guilty to two misdemeanors: $200,000 Average fine per dead customer: $9,524 Daily salary of Sara Lee CEO C. Steven McMillan in 2001 based on his $2.5 million income: $9,615 Texaco, Inc. Number of Indigenous peoples who live in the Ecuadorian rainforest: 300,000 Number of barrels of oil extracted by Texaco, between 1972-1992, from that forest: 1,000,000,000 Number of gallons of crude oil Texaco spilled in the region during those 20 years: 17,000,000 Waste Management Inc. Number of dollars in OSHA fines racked up by Waste Management and its subsidiaries: over $100,000 Number of health and safety violations found: 152 Number of former government officials employed (as of 1994): 35 Number of former EPA officials employed: at least 7 Xerox Amount Xerox was fined by the Environmental Protection Agency last year for its failure to inspect vats of waste and monitor air emissions at its Webster, N.Y., facility: $74,000 Amount of solid waste produced annually at the Webster plant: 19,500 tons Zumtobel Number of shopfloor workers who went on a short strike at a lighting plant in Spennymoor, England, owned by the Austrian conglomerate Zumtobel in November, 2001: 250 Sources: A. New York Times, CNN/Money; C: Rainforest Action Network; D: Mother Jones; E: New York Times; F: ABC News / Citizens for Tax Justice; H: Human Rights Watch; K: Genetically Engineered Food Alert (GEFA) coalition; M: Washington Post; N: CorpWatch; P: Associated Press; R: Sierra Club; S: Multinational Monitor; T: www.mcspotlight.org; W: infact.org, Greenpeace, Political Ecology Group; X: Earth Times; Z: www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk