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Skip to content LittleSis About Donate Search Search Close The Earthquake and Banco Popular: How Puerto Rico’s Largest Bank Hinders a Just Recovery By Abner Dennis January 22, 2020 Banco Popular is the largest owner of foreclosed homes in Puerto Rico and is profiting from austerity on the island. It should turn over its vacant residences to people displaced by the earthquake and return its austerity profits to the government for recovery efforts. Read More → All Fracking Readings Regional Power Trump & Co. Wall Street Why is the University of Michigan Financing the Billionaire Oilman Who’s Bankrolling the Texas Far Right? By Derek Seidman February 3, 2020 The University of Michigan and Michigan State have tens of millions invested in the private equity fund that finances the business operations of Tim Dunn, the billionaire oilman who is bankrolling the Texas extreme right. Read More → Museum and college donations help clean up Paul Saffrin’s image, but not the generations of pollution his company caused By Rob Galbraith January 27, 2020 Local institutions rehabilitate Tonawanda Coke owner’s image as the state considers public subsidies for developer who bought polluted site Read More → Hedge Fund Billionaires Power New Democratic Super PAC By Donald Shaw, Sludge January 24, 2020 The group’s top donor has a history of backing Republicans. Read More → El Terremoto y el Banco Popular: Cómo el Banco Más Grande de Puerto Rico Obstruye una Recuperación Justa By Abner Dennis January 22, 2020 El Banco Popular es el banco con la mayor cantidad de casas reposeídas en Puerto Rico y se lucra de las medidas de austeridad en la isla. Debería hacer disponible sus residencias vacantes para las personas desplazadas por el terremoto y devolverle al gobierno sus ganancias producto de la austeridad para los esfueros de recuperación. Read More → Washington Post runs pro-war Stephen Hadley column without disclosing Raytheon board seat yet again By Rob Galbraith January 7, 2020 In 2013 the Washington Post published a pro-war column by Hadley without reporting his Raytheon board seat. Seven years later nothing has changed. Read More → NY budget watchdog’s climate recommendations reflect priorities of corporations and lobbyists on its board By Rob Galbraith December 18, 2019 The Citizens Budget Commission advocated embracing natural gas and expanding nuclear subsidies among other pro-corporate recommendations Read More → Growing Protest Movement Exposes Alignment Between Elites & Art Museums By Gin Armstrong December 17, 2019 Corporate elites who rake in dirty profits use board seats at prestigious cultural institutions to burnish their reputations. Now they’re being called out by a growing movement. Read More → Hedge Fund’s Control Over Wendy’s Goes Deep as Fast Food Chain Snubs Farmworkers By Munira Lokhandwala December 12, 2019 Trian Partners and its billionaire CEO Nelson Peltz dominate the board of Wendy’s. They have the power to get the fast food megachain to join the Fair Food Program, which protects the rights of farmworkers. Read More → Lawyers Defending ExxonMobil Are Big Biden Donors By Rob Galbraith , Derek Seidman and Donald Shaw, Sludge December 10, 2019 ExxonMobil’s lawyers, who scored a victory for the fossil fuel company today on a climate lawsuit, are big donors to Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg & other corporate Democrats. Read More → Here are the Corporate Backers of School Privatization that Striking Arkansas Teachers are Up Against By Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman November 14, 2019 A well-funded network, with the billionaire Walton family at its center, is driving the school privatization agenda that striking teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas are up against. Read More → Southwest Pennsylvania State Reps Invest in Fracking Industry as Region Faces Cancer Crisis By Derek Seidman November 14, 2019 As residents of southwest Pennsylvania face a wave of cancer cases that many believe could be related to environmental impacts produced by the region’s extensive fracking operations, numerous local elected officials have close ties to – and are personally invested in – the fracking industry, raising concerns over whether these conflicts could hamper their ability to adequately protect residents in their districts. Read More → Wealthy developers cash in as cost of Buffalo tax break rises to $66.9 million By Rob Galbraith November 7, 2019 Tax break for mixed-use development has been abused to force property owners and renters to pay taxes for luxury lofts Read More → LittleSis We're a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations. Get Updates from LittleSis Email Address * Leave this field empty if you're human: View LittleSis.org’s profile on Facebook View twittlesis’s profile on Twitter...