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Corporate Accountability activates people power to challenge and change destructive corporations at every level -- from local communities to international democratic institutions. Here’s how you can get involved.
Articles include: You tell US to stand down at UN climate talks; Creating social change, person to person; Standing up to Big Tobacco around the world; You stand with educators to end junk food marketing in schools; Building toward water justice in Pittsburgh; Member spotlight: Nancy Bernstein, and more…
Despite our opposition, Trump’s Department of Labor has officially proposed a rule that would let corporations steal workers’ tips. Tell Congress to reject this unjust rule.
Behind the candy hearts and commercial hype of Valentines Day’s a fundamental truth: We thrive in relationships. That’s how we make real, long-term change.
The Trump administration just released an infrastructure plan that could open the floodgates for corporations to privatize the public systems we all rely upon, like our water systems. Tell your member of Congress to reject the Trump infrastructure plan.
Certainly it is egregious that the Trump-appointed director of the CDC, purchased tobacco industry stock...But such a conflict isn’t shocking in our government, especially in this administration, and it highlights a longstanding virus plaguing our democracy: corporate conflicts of interest.
What does it take to succeed in creating social change? Corporate Accountability President Kelle Louaillier answers this vitally important question.
Francis Moore Lappé, Corporate Accountability adviser and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute, reads from her book Daring Democracy with co-author, Adam Eichen in Boston.
Remembering filmmaker Debra "Chas" Chasnoff and her impact on the anti-nuclear weapons movement.
Mr. Trump’s budget proposal and infrastructure “principles” released last May, and an outline of the plan leaked last month, point to a pro-privatization approach that his pals in Davos would celebrate but would endanger basic services, enrich the private sector and force everyday people to foot the bill.
