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Article

18 Jul 2003

Author:
Ted Nace, article is adapted from "Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy", on CorpWatch website

Talking Back to the Ganglords - Free speech activist defeats computer industry

Computer giant Intel lost a major lawsuit against a fired employee who sent email protest letters to thousands of his former colleagues, in a court decision that experts say is a major victory for free speech and workers' rights...Hamidi, who immigrated to California from Iran in 1978, organized a group called Former and Current Employees or FACE Intel (www.faceintel.com), soon after being fired in 1995. The organization claims that Intel's demands on its employees created health problems, stress on families, and even suicide.