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- <text id=90TT1511>
- <title>
- June 11, 1990: Business Notes:Activism
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 11, 1990 Scott Turow:Making Crime Pay
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- ACTIVISM
- Sounding Off For the Earth
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The steady hum of business-as-usual at Exxon's Manhattan
- headquarters was suddenly shattered last week by the howling
- of guitars and a raw-edged voice singing "You cut all the tall
- trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea..." It was the
- music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group,
- which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below
- the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett
- condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world
- like a garbage dump," he said.
- </p>
- <p> Ironically, one conspicuous polluter is the recording
- industry. In the U.S., compact discs are packaged in bulky
- 12-in. "longboxes," which consumers usually throw away. Angered
- by the waste, such musical activists as R.E.M. and Crosby,
- Stills & Nash have formed a coalition called Ban the Box to
- urge record companies to eliminate the excess cardboard.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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