Responsible Shoppers Get Active

Being a responsible shopper means being informed about the social and environmental impact of the companies you shop with, choosing the best green options, and taking action to demand change from some of the worst corporate actors.

Each company profile in Responsible Shopper contains a listing for consumer, investor, and community campaigns to end corporate abuse of workers, communities and the environment. Check out the complete list of actions and get involved today!

CO-OP AMERICA CAMPAIGNS

Adopt-A-Supermarket Campaign

Companies: Ahold, Albertson's, Kroger, Safeway, SUPERVALU INC., Trader Joe's, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods

Co-op America's ADOPT-A-SUPERMARKET campaign is linking up Fair Trade advocates with stores in their local communities to keep pressure on supermarkets to carry and promote more Fair Trade products. Sign up to Adopt-A-Supermarket today. Tell us which store you are adopting and the location of the store. When you sign up now, we'll send you an "I Shop Fair Trade" grocery tote so you can display your commitment to Fair Trade whenever you shop.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/programs/fairtrade/whatyoucand...

Climate of Corporate Change Campaign

Companies: Fidelity, Vanguard Group, Inc.

With trillions of dollars in assets, Fidelity, Vanguard, and American funds could play a vital role in encouraging corporate responsibility on climate change and protecting the assets of their investors. Over the past year, tens of thousands of investors have expressed concern that these funds are failing to take action on climate change. Now, they need to hear from thousands more. Tell them it's time to wake up and take action!
Campaign URL: http://www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/mutualfunds/

Co-op America's Banana Action

Companies: Chiquita Brands, Dole

Fair trade coffee and chocolate are widely available, but fair trade fruit, which has been available in the U.S. since 2004, is rarely seen in supermarkets. If you want your bananas to be pesticide-free and grown sustainably, then take action with Co-op America's Banana Action and tell supermarkets to stock fair trade bananas.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/fairtradebananas/

Co-op America's ExxonMobil Campaign

Companies: ExxonMobil

Co-op America's ExxonMobil Campaign calls on consumers to tell ExxonMobil to put money into developing renewable technologies instead of spending $600 million in research to keep the fossil fuel economy going.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/exxon/index.cfm

Ecopledge

Companies: BP

Founded in 1999 by the Center for Public Interest Research, Ecopledge works to "influence corporpate choices through a unique, multi-phased approach." Consumers, investors and students seek to negotiate with corporations and if that fails, they initiate a consumer, investor or employment boycott. Ecopledge has had a number of successes with companies in Responsible Shopper including Apple, BP and Whole Foods. Be sure to sign their pledge!
Campaign URL: http://www.ecopledge.com/about/index.htm

Green Shopping Pledge

Companies: Wal-Mart

Sign the Green Shopping Pledge and let the Walton Family, founders of Wal-Mart, know that you and your family will not be shopping at their stores, and get your friends and co-workers to join you in taking this pledge.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/walmart/

Say 'NO' to Coal and Climate Change

Companies: Dominion, Peabody Energy, Sempra Energy

Tell the CEOs of power companies Peabody, Dominion, and Sempra and their Board members to heed the call of shareholders and their power customers and halt climate change, stop building new coal plants, and shift the billions of dollars they are spending on coal into green energy like solar and wind as well as energy efficiency.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/coalpower/

Six Degrees of Exploitation

Companies: Hanesbrand Inc.

One of the world’s best recognized and most successful actors, Kevin Bacon serves as a key paid celebrity endorser for Hanes. We know that Hanes values his services as a spokesperson for the company and wishes to continue this lucrative relationship. As a result, Mr. Bacon is in a powerful position to stop the abuse of workers at Hanes' factory TOS Dominicana. If Mr. Bacon told Hanes that he would not continue to help Hanes sell its t-shirts and underwear unless the abuses at TOS Dominicana are stopped, we know that Hanes would listen. So we are asking for his help on this urgent cause.
Campaign URL: http://sixdegreesofexploitation.org/

Tell Ford & GM: Raise Fuel Economy

Companies: Ford, General Motors

Ford and GM cars on the road today account for more than half of all US automotive global warming emissions. Neither company is working to improve its record quickly enough, even though existing technologies could make a real difference now. Join Co-op America in asking Ford and GM to reduce the impact of their cars and trucks on global warming. Demand improved gas mileage and an increase in hybrid vehicle production. Click on the URL to read more and take action now.
Campaign URL: www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/fordandgm/

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OTHER CAMPAIGNS

A Greener Apple!

Companies: Apple

According to Greenpeace, Apple products made with toxic chemicals (such as flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride) are being sold worldwide. When discarded, they typically end up in the hands of children in China, India and other developing countries. They dismantle the products for parts and are exposed to dangerous toxins that threaten their health and the environment. Take action now to get Apple to go green.
Campaign URL: www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greening-of-...

Abercrombie & Fitch Girlcott

Companies: Abercrombie & Fitch

A girlcott has been launched by the Allegheny County Girls as Grantmakers group, a group of 23 girls representing different schools, neighborhoods, ethnic groups, religions, races, sexual orientation, athletic and academic interests. The group's national girlcott effort is aimed at encouraging A&F to stop selling shirts with slogans such as "With These Who Needs Brains..." and "I hope you can make more then I can spend..." and to begin selling more empowering wear instead. The group is calling on conscious consumers to girlcott A&F until a change is made.
Campaign URL: www.ms.foundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=314

Amnesty International Share Power Chevron Campaign

Companies: Chevron

For over four decades, Indigenous communities have witnessed multinational oil companies cut through their ancestral lands in search of the country's vast petroleum resources. Texaco (now Chevron) was responsible for dumping 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the region, contaminating the drinking water of Ecuador's Amazon communities who are suffering the consequences up to this day. Take action to help defend Amazon communities and hold Chevron accountable.
Campaign URL: www.amnestyusa.org/business/sharepower/chevron_act...

Ask Citi to Stop Funding Coal Power

Companies: Citigroup

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is asking people to call Citigroup and ask them to reconsider plans to finance companies who are planning to build coal-powered plants in Florida and Iowa. According to RAN, "Coal power is hands-down the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions, and these new plants are only the start." Let Citigroup know that they are financing dangerous and destructive projects!
Campaign URL: ga3.org/campaign/citi_callin/8dsubug9le3ibtk?

Baby Milk Action

Companies: Nestlé

Baby Milk Action (BMA), a UK-based non-profit group, is opposing Nestlé's aggressive baby formula marketing campaigns. In cooperation with other child health organizations, BMA is calling for the continued boycott of all Nestlé products and brands due to the company’s refusal to comply with the World Health Assembly’s baby food marketing guidelines. International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), a world-wide network of organizations dedicated to reducing infant mortality, found Nestlé to be responsible for more violations of baby food marketing requirements, as outlined by the World Health Assembly, than any other company. BMA claims that Nestlé’s practices are needlessly putting greater numbers of infants at risk of malnutrition and even death by misleading mothers about the health benefits of its baby food products.
Campaign URL: www.babymilkaction.org

Baku-Ceyhan Campaign

Companies: Amerada Hess, BP

The Baku-Ceyhan Campaign, an international coalition of groups, is working to raise public awareness of the social problems, human rights abuses and environmental damage that is being caused by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which runs through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. BTC Pipeline Company, a conglomeration of companies led and operated by BP, is the entity responsible for planning and constructing the pipeline. The Baku-Ceyhan Campaign criticizes the project for displacing residents, supporting oppressive regimes, and for endangering people and the environment by building in areas with frequent seismic activity.
Campaign URL: www.bakuceyhan.org.uk/about.htm

Be Safe PVC

Companies: Kmart, Target, Wal-Mart

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) and a growing network of organizations are launching PVC consumer campaigns to encourage major corporations to phase out their use of PVC and to support policies that phase out PVC. They have already convinced Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Victoria’s Secret, and Bath and Body Works to phase out their use of PVC in their packaging! They want to leverage these victories to build momentum for further commitments to safer products in the years to come.
Campaign URL: www.besafenet.com/pvc/

Black Mesa Water Coalition

Companies: Peabody Energy

The Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) is an inter-tribal organization led by community youth, working to end Peabody Coal's abuse of scarce water resources in the Black Mesa Area. Water from the N-Acquifer is the sole source of drinking water for native groups in Black Mesa, however Peabody's operations are quickly depleting supplies and contaminating remaining groundwater with toxic chemicals used in the coal mining process. The group is calling for an end to Peabody's use of pristine water for its coal slurry, and would like to see a shift to renewable energy sources.
Campaign URL: www.blackmesawatercoalition.org

Campaign Against GE Corn

Companies: Archer Daniels Midland Company, Cargill

Surreptitiously imported by agribusiness giants such as Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, genetically engineered (GE) corn has contaminated "irreplaceable" corn crops in Mexico and other nations. The Organic Consumers Association and other activists are calling on corporations to remove genetically engineered crops from the market until they are found safe for human consumption and the environment.
Campaign URL: http://www.organicconsumers.org/corn/index.cfm

Campaign ExxonMobil

Companies: ExxonMobil, Fidelity, Vanguard Group, Inc.

Campaign ExxonMobil is working to improve ExxonMobil’s corporate behavior and response to global climate change by using the power of shareholders to make an impact. The campaign focuses heavily on Fidelity and Vanguard mutual fund investors, as both companies list ExxonMobil as a major holding. Mutual fund investors are encouraged to ask Fidelity and Vanguard management to vote in favor of climate change resolutions brought before shareholders.
Campaign URL: www.campaignexxonmobil.org

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Companies: Alberto-Culver, Avon, Colgate-Palmolive, Estee Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Limited Brands, Mary Kay, Procter & Gamble, Revlon

Everyday products such as shampoo, deodorant and make-up contain chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other serious health consequences. Cosmetics manufacturers are allowed to use almost any chemical as an ingredient without government approval; however, some leading companies agree that cosmetics should be made with safe, non-toxic ingredients. Over 600 companies have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, a pledge to make safe products and the campaign is calling for all cosmetics companies to do the same.
Campaign URL: www.safecosmetics.org

Campaign to Stop Killer Coke

Companies: Coca-Cola, SunTrust Banks

The campaign is working to stop the cycle of murders, kidnappings and torture of SINALTRAINAL (National Union of Food Industry Workers) union leaders and organizers at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. Since 1989, eight union leaders have been killed. The campaign aims to force Coca-Cola to prevent further bloodshed and to provide safe working conditions.
Campaign URL: www.killercoke.org

Clean Clothes Campaign

Companies: Disney, Fila USA, NIKE, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Puma, Reebok

The Clean Clothes Campaign is an international campaign that aims to improve working conditions and to empower workers in the global garment industry, in order to end the oppression, exploitation and abuse of workers in this industry, most of whom are women.
Campaign URL: www.cleanclothes.org

Cleanup GE

Companies: General Electric (GE)

Citizens to Cleanup GE is a project of the non-profit organization Essential Information that seeks to keep pressure on General Electric to clean up the Hudson River. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were found in the Hudson River over 25 years ago, and since then GE has dodged its own responsibility and stalled cleanup efforts repeatedly. Exposure to PCBs have been linked to cancer, reproductive and immune system damage, and endocrine disruption. Join with Citizens to Cleanup GE to help ensure the safety of the Hudson River Valley population.
Campaign URL: www.cleanupge.org/whatyoucando.html

Clothes for a Change

Companies: Gap

According to the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), the Gap's clothing products are manufactured with genetically engineered and pesticide laden cotton. Additionally, the company is not thoroughly implementing a code of conduct for its suppliers to ensure that no sweatshop labor is employed. Organic and Fair Made clothing currently constitutes a niche market, but consumer support can ensure that at least 30% of all clothing in the USA is organic & Fair Made by the year 2010. Gap can play an important role in making this a reality. Take action with OCA's Clothes For a Change campaign and contact Gap Chairman of the Board Donald G. Fisher now by clicking on the link below.
Campaign URL: www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/action.cfm#fax

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Companies: Burger King

Burger King has rejected working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve farm worker wages and conditions. Burger King still refuses to agree to the principles signed onto by Yum! and McDonald’s. Rather than pay tomato workers a decent wage and improve working conditions, Burger King claims it’s not possible to institute those same principles in their supply chain. Click on the link and send a letter to the CEO of Burger King urging him to take action.
Campaign URL: go.sojo.net/campaign/burgerking/

Compensation for Hermosa Workers

Companies: Adidas, NIKE

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is calling for consumer action to get Adidas, Nike and Russell to address the wrongful termination of workers at the Hermosa garment factory in El Salvador. Managers at Hermosa closed the factory in May 2005 following the discovery that workers were organizing to form a union. Some machinery was taken to another non-union facility also owned by Montalvo and Hermosa closed its doors leaving workers without their due social security, pension and back pay. When workers applied for jobs at another collegiate producing factory called Chi-Fung, they found that they had been blacklisted. USAS is asking Adidas, Nike and Russell to pay workers their severance and ensure priority rehiring in response to blacklists. Take action by clicking on the URL below.
Campaign URL: www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/alert-desc...

Corporate Accountability International Water Campaign

Companies: Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo

Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi are misleading consumers to believe that bottled water is healthier than tap water--but bottled water is actually less regulated than public water sources. Corporate Accountability International urges the public to tell Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi to end the deceitful promotion of their bottled water brands and to stop interfering in policies that protect public water. Take action now by clicking on the URL below.
Campaign URL: www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/exposebottl...

Dirty Dow Campaign

Companies: Dow Chemical Company

Students for Bhopal is working to get Dow to take responsibility for a history absolutely plagued by environmental and humanitarian crime, and to amend their practices to prevent further catastrophes and environmental destruction. Along with numerous ways to get involved in reforming Dow, Students for Bhopal’s Dirty Dow resource outlines Dow’s shameful track record of putting profits before all else at an enormous human cost.
Campaign URL: www.studentsforbhopal.org/DirtyDow.htm

Dirty Money Campaign

Companies: Wells Fargo & Company

The Dirty Money Campaign, sponsored by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), is working to end Wells Fargo's financing of environmentally and socially irresponsible projects. The bank is criticized for bankrolling endeavors such as mountaintop removal for coal extraction and logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. RAN is calling for public pressure on CEO Dick Kovacevich to outline and implement a responsible investing regimen for Wells Fargo. Click on the URL to take action now.
Campaign URL: www.dirtymoney.org

Disney Go Green Campaign

Companies: Disney

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) found that Walt Disney World uses more than 80 extremely toxic cleaners, as opposed to just 12 that are non-toxic and which are used in the animal park out of safety concerns for the animals. According to CHEJ, children visiting the park "bathe, eat and play." CHEJ and community groups in Florida are urging Disney to use safer cleaning products for the sake of the children.
Campaign URL: http://www.chej.org/disney/index.htm

Dole Cut Flowers Campaign

Companies: Dole

The U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP) is calling on Dole to respect the basic rights of its cut flower workers. Workers established Sintrasplendor, an independent union, nearly two years ago on a Dole flower plantation in Colombia to improve poor working conditions. In April 2006, Dole agreed to support a “fair” process to determine union representation but negotiations have failed to produce an agreement or a fair resolution. Click on the URL below to urge Dole to respect the rights of its cut flowers workers.
Campaign URL: www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/USL...

Don't Buy Nestlé Until Nestlé Buys Fair Trade

Companies: Nestlé

According to Global Exchange, Nestlé is the third largest exporter of cocoa from regions affected by forced and abusive child labor. As both a leading exporter of cocoa from the Ivory Coast and manufacturer of chocolate products for consumption around the world, Nestlé owes a special responsibility to consumers to ensure that its cocoa is no longer produced using forced and abusive child labor. Send a message to Nestlé to demand justice for cocoa child laborers. Click on the URL below to act now.
Campaign URL: www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/nestlesl...

Don't Fox with Local News

Companies: Fox Entertainment

Free Press’s "Don’t Fox With Local News" campaign calls attention to News Corp.’s plan to further pressure local news channels to put a conservative slant on their programming. Fox News channel’s parent News Corp. owns 34 channels, in addition to the DirecTV satellite network and more. The company’s plan is to fashion local news on the other 34 channels in the conservative image of Fox News Channel. Free Press urges citizens to sign the News Corp. petition against such interference with fair news reporting.
Campaign URL: www.freepress.net/foxnews/

Economic Globalization and Human Rights

Companies: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

Amnesty International is calling on the public to urge Google to stop aiding Internet censorship. Google’s CEO claimed that accepting China’s censorship requirements was unavoidable. However, critics claim that Google is contradicting its founding principles, and its own unofficial motto of “Don't be evil.” Prior to Google's deal with the Chinese government, the company's Support Centre stated that it “does not censor results for any search term.” That claim has been removed. Click on the URL below to take action now.
Campaign URL: web.amnesty.org/pages/ec-index-eng

Electronics TakeBack Coalition

Companies: Acer, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Microsoft, Sanyo, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.

The Electronics TakeBack Coalition, formerly the Computer TakeBack Campaign, aims to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of their products, through effective public policy requirements or enforceable agreements.
Campaign URL: www.computertakeback.com

End Wal-Mart Sweatshops Campaign

Companies: Wal-Mart

The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) is calling for consumer action to stop Wal-Mart's use of sweatshops. Workers in Wal-Mart supplier factories are routinely subjected to forced labor, minimum wage and overtime pay violations, health care violations and more. Wal-Mart's international purchasing power can be used to change such conditions, and consumer pressure will help make this happen. To take action and send a message to Wal-Mart, click on the URL below.
Campaign URL: www.unionvoice.org/campaign/WalMartsweatshops

Exxpose Exxon

Companies: ExxonMobil

For more than a decade ExxonMobil has undermined national and international efforts to reduce global warming pollution by funding "junk science" to refute climate change. The company refuses to invest in renewable energy and is still fighting court-ordered punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Exxpose Exxon campaign--endorsed by groups such as the Alaska Coalition, MoveOn.org, and the Sierra Club--calls on the public to reject ExxonMobil's tactics and pressure it to reform its practices. The campaign is asking drivers to boycott ExxonMobil, asking investors not to buy Exxon stock, and asking job seekers to look to other options. Click on the URL below to take action now.
Campaign URL: www.exxposeexxon.com

Food & Agribusiness Campaign

Companies: Cargill, Dow Chemical Company, Monsanto

Corporate Accountability International is targeting agribusiness giants Monsanto, Cargill, and Dow for business practices which cause environmental degradation, drive small farmers out of business and turn basic food necessities into luxuries out of reach for the world’s poor.
Campaign URL: www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1132.cfm

Global Exchange Starbucks Campaign

Companies: Starbucks

The Starbucks Fair Trade Campaign endorsed by Global Exchange and Organic Consumers Association calls on Starbucks to spur market demand for fair trade coffee by increasing the percentage of its overall coffee fair trade coffee purchases. The campaign urges consumers to demand that Starbucks executives purchase more fair trade coffee, and to buy coffee at non-franchise sources until major corporations such as Starbucks change their practices. The campaign also requests that Starbucks offer rBGH-free milk and ban GMOs in its products.
Campaign URL: www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/...

Global Finance Campaign

Companies: Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase & Co., SunTrust Banks, Wachovia

Rainforest Action Network, together with allies and activists around the world, is working to redirect the global economic system away from destructive activities and into sustainable and socially just alternatives. Forest destruction, species extinction, and climate destabilization create an imperative for concerned citizens to demand an end to destructive investments from the world’s largest financial institutions and help to chart a new course towards a sane and sustainable global economy. Click on the URL to learn more and take action.
Campaign URL: ran.org/what_we_do/global_finance/

Greenpeace Bhopal Campaign

Companies: Dow Chemical Company

Greenpeace is calling on Dow to address the continued human suffering caused by the Bhopal disaster in India, the most catastrophic chemical spill to date. Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal incident, and has yet to take responsibility for the environmental and health problems that Union Carbide left in its wake. Greenpeace is urging the public to pressure Dow to take action on the matter.
Campaign URL: www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/toxics/justice-fo...

Greenpeace Kleercut Campaign

Companies: Kimberly-Clark

The Kleercut Campaign sponsored by Greenpeace focuses on Kimberly Clark’s practice of clearcutting in ancient forests (particularly the Boreal forest in Canada) in order to manufacture its Kleenex brand tissue paper. The campaign calls for citizen action to end Kimberly Clark's greenwashing and take concrete steps to change these practices.
Campaign URL: www.kleercut.net/en/

Home Town Not Home Depot

Companies: Home Depot

Sprawl-Busters’ Home Towns Not Home Depot campaign provides resources for and unites local campaigns against Home Depot and other big box stores around the country. The campaigns work to preserve local businesses and safeguard communities against the negative effects of urban sprawl and generic mega-stores.
Campaign URL: www.sprawl-busters.com/hometown.html

India Resource Center Coke Campaign

Companies: Coca-Cola

India Resource Center is working to end Coke’s corporate abuses in India. Water shortages, pollution of groundwater and soil, exposure to toxic waste and pesticides is having impacts of massive proportions in India. Over 70 percent of the population makes a living related to agriculture, and thousands of farmers in India have been affected by Coca-Cola's practices. According to the India Resource Center, Coca-Cola has destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of people in India; however, the extent of the damage as a result from exposure to the toxic waste and pesticides is yet unknown.

India Resource Center needs increased public involvement to stop Coke’s abuses in India. Click on the URL to learn more and take action now.
Campaign URL: www.indiaresource.org

Investor Environmental Health Network

Companies: Avon, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Whole Foods

The Investor Environmental Health Network heads a campaign to secure sustainable long-term returns on investments by making sure companies are actively reducing the risks associated with toxic chemicals in their products. The campaign asks that companies keep investors fully informed of any toxics risks and calls on investors to engage in shareholder activism through resolutions where appropriate.
Campaign URL: iehn.org/

Jumpstart Ford

Companies: DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, Toyota

Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange are the sponsors of the Jumpstart Ford campaign, asking auto makers to fight environmental degredation by producing the fuel efficient cars of the future. Consumers are encouraged to send the message to major car producers that there is a healthy demand for fuel efficient and hybrid cars. Ford is the primary target of the campaign, but major auto companies such as General Motors, Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Daimler Chrysler are being asked to achieve an average fleet fuel efficiency of 50 miles per gallon by 2010.
Campaign URL: www.jumpstartford.com

Krafted: Genetically Krafted Foods

Companies: Kraft Foods

“Krafted: Genetically Krafted Foods” is a national campaign calling on Kraft to end its use of genetically modified foods. According to the campaign, Kraft is aware of the potential health and environmental risks of GMO foods. After StarLink corn—a variety not approved for human consumption—was discovered in Kraft’s products by GE Food Alert in 2000, the company recalled millions of taco shells and switched to non-GMO corn in its taco products. Despite strong statements and efforts to avoid GE corn in some products, Kraft continues to use questionable GMO ingredients in many of its other foods. Consumers and students are urged to raise the issue with Kraft executives and to avoid purchasing foods made by Kraft or Kraft’s subsidiaries until changes are implemented.
Campaign URL: www.krafty.com

Millions Against Monsanto

Companies: Monsanto

Millions Against Monsanto, a campaign sponsored by the Organic Consumers Association, targets Monsanto for abuses ranging from bullying small farmers to failing to adequately test and disclose the genetic engineering of products on supermarket shelves. The campaign asks consumers to contact the CEO and President of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, asking him to reconsider the company’s practices.
Campaign URL: www.organicconsumers.org/monfax.cfm

National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns

Companies: Home Depot, Lowe's

The National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns is asking Home Depot and Lowe’s to carry a range of non-toxic, poison-free lawn and garden products. Home Depot and Lowe's are the largest hardware chains in America, and nearly all lawn care products available at their stores are toxic to animals as well as people. The campaign calls on consumers to pressure Home Depot and Lowe's to carry more environmentally sound options.
Campaign URL: www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticidefreelawns/

Nike Suspension at BJ&B Factory

Companies: NIKE

According to United Students Against Sweatshops, 150 Workers at the BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic were suspended from their jobs due to a lack of orders. USAS states that "Nike is slowly but surely cutting and running from this factory that had an historic victory in 2003 and was the first factory with an independent union in the caribbean basin. It is imperative that NIKE make a commitment to factories where workers have improved conditions and provide steady orders at fair prices to the factory. In a global race to the bottom- BJ&B is being cut out of the industry." Click on the URL to take action now.
Campaign URL: www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/alert-desc...

No Dirty Gold

Companies: JCPenney, Kroger, Sears, Roebuck & Co., TJX Companies, Wal-Mart

The No Dirty Gold campaign sponsored by Oxfam America and Earthworks focuses on changing the destructive practices of the gold mining industry by using consumer pressure. Gold mining often destroys clean environments, harms workers, contaminates drinking water and displaces communities simply to supply the developed world's demand for jewelry. No Dirty Gold calls on consumers to sign its campaign pledge and to demand that jewelers source their gold responsibly. Sears/Kmart, JCPenney, Wal-Mart and Fred Meyer Jewelers have been identified as "laggard" retailers that fail to make a commitment to purchasing more responsibly produced gold. Click on the URL below to take action.
Campaign URL: www.nodirtygold.org

Ohio Citizen Action

Companies: Kroger, Wal-Mart

Ohio Citizen Action is urging Kroger and Wal-Mart to take the lead in making sure the Teflon chemical "C8" is eliminated from food packaging. The group is calling on citizens to send an email to H. Lee Scott, President and CEO of Wal-Mart and Kroger CEO David Dillon. The chemical "C8", which is used to make non-stick and greaseproof coatings, has been linked to cancer and reproductive defects and has been found in the blood of 95% of Americans. Take action to support this effort by clicking on the link below.
Campaign URL: www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/dupont_c8/kro_mart.h...

Outdoor Furniture Campaign

Companies: Target, Wal-Mart

Rainforest Relief is campaigning to end Target’s use of endangered tropical wood in their seasonal outdoor furniture and children’s furniture. Kapur and Nyatoh wood originate from the dwindling old growth rainforests of Southeast Asia, and Kapur is on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species. Rainforest Relief is asking consumers to take action by calling Target CEO Robert J. Ulrich and implore him to follow Kmart’s lead in ending the purchase and sale of products that destroy critical biological diversity.
Campaign URL: www.rainforestrelief.org/Campaigns/Outdoor_Furnitu...

Send Bangladeshi Child Workers Back to School

Companies: JCPenney, Puma, Wal-Mart

Bangladeshi garment plant Harvest Rich, employed roughly 200 to 300 children to sew clothes for Puma, J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart and Hanes. In October 2006, the National Labor Committee reported said children being beaten, suffering from exhaustion, working mandatory 12 to 14 hour days, and being paid as little as 6½ cents an hour. Harvest Rich fired more than 100 child workers following the publication of NLC's report and threatened to fire any workers found cooperating with the investigation of labor conditions. NLC is demanding US companies sourcing from the factory to supply each fired child worker with a monthly stipend to ease strain on their families and cover essential school expenses for textbooks, supplies, uniforms and shoes so the children may return to school. Read NLC's report to learn more details of the factory. Click on the URL below to take action in support of Bangladeshi Child workers.
Campaign URL: www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=189

Stir It Up

Companies: Kraft Foods, Nestlé, Sara Lee

U.K.-based human right's group Oxfam International's “Stir It Up” Fair Trade coffee campaign focuses on three of the world’s largest coffee retailers: Kraft, Nestlé and Sara Lee. Oxfam is calling on consumers to pressure these coffee giants to purchase and distribute fairly traded coffee and coffee products. The campaign is ongoing and aims to get Kraft, Nestlé and Sara Lee to pay coffee producers a living wage.
Campaign URL: www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?file=action11.h...

Stop AOL's Email Tax

Companies: AOL

The DearAOL.com Coalition is calling on consumers to oppose AOL's proposed pay-to-send email system. The concept has been described by AOL as a means to get rid of spam; however, critics say the system will only favor affluent individuals and companies. The coalition argues that those who can't afford to pay AOL's "email tax" cannot be guaranteed that their emails will be delivered. The groups most likely to be adversely affected include charities, small businesses, civic organizations, and even families with mailing lists. Opponents of the pay-to-send system worry that if other companies follow AOL's lead, "the Internet will become permanently divided into two classes of users - those who can afford to pay for guaranteed delivery and everyone else left behind with unreliable service."
Campaign URL: www.dearaol.com

Stop Big Media

Companies: Disney, Fox Entertainment, General Electric (GE), Time Warner Inc., Vivendi Universal S.A.

According to Free Press, "the media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated too much control in too few hands. This leads to a lack of diversity of voices, programming that is out of touch with local concerns and increasingly commercial and homogenized news and entertainment. Further consolidation will produce media in which only the powerful few will be heard." Join the campaign to fight media concentration.
Campaign URL: www.stopbigmedia.com/chart.php

Stop Factory Farm Organics

Companies: Ahold, Costco, Dean Foods, Safeway

The Organic Consumers Association is calling for consumers to protect the integrity of certified organic dairy products. According to the campaign, two of the largest organic dairy companies in the nation, Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods), a supplier to Wal-Mart and many health food stores; and Aurora Organic, a supplier of private brand name organic milk to Costco, Safeway, Giant, Wild Oats and others, who together control 65% of the market, are purchasing the majority of their milk from feedlot dairies where the cows have little or no access to pasture.

These giant dairy feedlots regularly import calves from conventional farms, where animals have been fed slaughterhouse waste and genetically engineered grains, and injected or dosed with antibiotics. Sign the petition and send a message to the companies' CEOs and let them know you are boycotting their products until they comply with USDA organic standards.
Campaign URL: www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca...

Stop Firestone Campaign

Companies: Bridgestone Firestone

Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC has operated a rubber plantation in Liberia since the country's independence in 1926. According to the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), Bridgestone Firestone subjects workers to "the modern equivalent of slavery" and encourages adults to bring their children to help them meet daily rubber production quotas. The ILRF filed a class-action suit on behalf of 12 Liberian workers and their 23 children, who worked for Bridgestone Firestone in Harbel, Liberia. Terry Collingsworth of ILRF stated, "... the evidence of forced labor is so clear and Firestone owns and operates the plantation, so it can't foist it off on some offshore, foreign subsidiary..."

The situation violates international laws including ILO Conventions, American and Liberian labor law. Send a letter to Bridgestone/Firestone president Dan Adomitis to help end Firestone's child labor, exploitation, and environmental destruction in Liberia. Click on the URL below to take action.
Campaign URL: www.stopfirestone.org

Stop Home Depot Advertising on Fox

Companies: Home Depot

The Sierra Club and MoveOn.org are challenging Fox on its efforts to spread misinformation about the global climate crisis. As an advertiser, Home Depot could hold a strong influence on discouraging Fox's biased reporting. Urge Home Depot to support its claims that it is committed to protecting the environment.
Campaign URL: secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/SPageServer?pagenam...

Stop Pharmacies' Discrimination Against Women

Companies: Wal-Mart

Pharmacies in nearly 20 states can refuse to fill women’s prescriptions for contraception, including the morning-after pill. Pharmacies are not ensuring that patients get their doctor-prescribed contraceptives so NARAL Pro-Choice America is imploring major pharmacies (Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreen, and Eckerd) not to interfere with a woman's choice. Click on the link below to support this campaign.
Campaign URL: prochoiceaction.org/campaign/planb_walmart

Support Turkish Garment Workers

Companies: Adidas, Puma

Paxar, a US-based company that produces garments for Adidas, Disney, Gap, Levi's, Nike, Puma, Wal-Mart and other brands, has blatantly violated Turkish law and corporate codes of conduct by squashing trade union organizing at the company, firing worker activists, pressuring union members to renounce their membership, discriminating against union members and failing to negotiate with an authorized trade union. The Clean Clothes Campaign is calling on consumers globally to pressure these major brand name companies to protect the workers making their garments. Click on the URL below to act now.
Campaign URL: www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/06-08-24.htm#action

Take Action Against the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers

Companies: DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, Toyota

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM), which currently represents General Motors, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Honda, Nissan and Toyota, is suing states that are trying to enforce tailpipe emissions regulations. AAM is also launching a massive ad campaign to convince the public that Fuel Economy is a bad thing. Join the Rainforest Action Network in writing to AAM to ask them to "stop sinking money into fighting regulations and to start investing in real solutions to global warming."
Campaign URL: ga3.org/campaign/aam/8dsubug9le3ibtk?

Tell Avon You Want Summer to be Fabulous and Safe

Companies: Avon

Many of the ingredients of Avon's summer products such as shaving cream and hair minimizing lotion have been linked to cancer and reproductive products. Avon knows many of the ingredients in its products are harmful, but the company claims the amounts are too small to matter. However, with the average person using 10 to 12 personal care products, these small amounts of harmful ingredients start to add up. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is urging consumers to call and write a letter to Avon asking them to make their products safe.
Campaign URL: http://action.safecosmetics.org/action/index.asp?s...

Tell Hanes: Clean Up Your Dirty Laundry!

Companies: Hanesbrand Inc.

Serious worker rights abuses have been exposed at TOS Dominicana, a major textile factory in the Dominican Republic which produces fabric for Wal-Mart and is owned by Hanesbrands. These violations include forced and undercompensated overtime, verbal harassment, the coercion of workers to sign documents giving up employment rights and benefits, and eggregious violations of worker's rights of freedom of association. Despite these abuses, neither Wal-Mart nor Hanesbrands have done anything meaningful to correct the situation. Tell these companies to clean up their dirty laundry at TOS Dominicana and respect workers' rights!
Campaign URL: http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/ale...

Tell Starbucks to Support Fair Trade

Companies: Starbucks

Send an e-mail to CEO Jim Donald to put the pressure on Starbucks to remove genetically engineered ingredients from their food and dairy products on a worldwide basis, improve working conditions for coffee plantation workers, and brew and seriously promote fair trade coffee in all of their cafes.
Campaign URL: www.organicconsumers.org/starbucks/downloads.cfm#f...

The Campaign for Safe, Healthy Consumer Products

Companies: Dell, Sears, Roebuck & Co.

The Campaign for Safe, Healthy Consumer Products seeks to raise the public's awareness about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a potentially harmful chemical found in everything from siding to shower curtains. The Campaign also identifies and contacts companies that manufacture or sell products containing PVCs and urges them to use safe materials.
Campaign URL: www.besafenet.com/pvc/

Tobacco Industry Campaign

Companies: Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris)

Corporate Accountability International is campaigning for the implementation and enforcement of the global tobacco treaty. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) protects global health policy from corporate or industry interference. The global tobacco treaty bans tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. According to CAI, "Philip Morris/Altria--which has tremendous influence over US health policy--claims to support the treaty, but opposes its central provisions. As it is implemented, the treaty will prevent the corporation from addicting new customers with aggressive promotional tactics like the Marlboro Man." Click on the URL to take action now.
Campaign URL: www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1111.cfm

Uncaged Campaigns

Companies: Procter & Gamble

U.K.-based animal protection organization, Uncaged Campaigns has a boycott against Procter and Gamble for what they call, "disturbing examples of P&G’s ongoing involvement in painful and lethal animal tests." For ten years they have had an annual "Global Day of Action" against P&G.
Campaign URL: http://www.uncaged.co.uk/pg.htm

Victoria's Dirty Secret

Companies: Limited Brands

Forest Ethics and its allies have achieved a major victory in the two-year-old campaign to end Victoria’s Secret’s use of endangered forest products in their catalogs. The company mails over 400 million catalogues annually, or more than one million per day, and has been using almost no recycled paper and sourcing from endangered areas such as the Northern Boreal Forest in Canada. Limited Brands, parent company of Victoria's Secret, will now work in partnership with Forest Ethics to implement new groundbreaking environmental measures including greater post-consumer recycled content and FSC certified tree fiber. For more information on these measures click on the URL below.
Campaign URL: www.victoriasdirtysecret.net

Wake-Up Wal-Mart

Companies: Wal-Mart

In April of 2005, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union launched the Wake-Up Wal-Mart campaign, criticizing Wal-Mart for inadequate wages and health care, discrimination and failing to meet fair labor standards. Wake-Up Wal-Mart calls for consumer pledges against shopping Wal-Mart, appeals to state legislators for “Fair Share for Health Care,” legislative action designed to protect taxpayers from the medicare burden of Wal-Mart’s workforce, and to act locally against Wal-Mart stores by organizing community members and local media. For more information and to get involved, click on the URL below.
Campaign URL: www.wakeupwalmart.com/tour/splash.html

Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch

Companies: Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has received over $1.2 billion in tax breaks and other corporate subsidies such as low-cost financing and even grants. Additionally, becuse Wal-Mart does not provide health insurance for all its employees, the burden is placed on American taxpayers to fund Medicaid and other government programs. Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch is a new campaign from the nonprofit, Good Jobs First, that tracks information on the subsidies Wal-Mart receives. There is a section where you can compare on a state-by-state basis how much and what kind of subsidies Wal-Mart is receiving in your area.
Campaign URL: www.walmartsubsidywatch.org/

Wal-Mart Watch

Companies: Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Watch, a campaign of The Center for Community and Corporate Ethics, supports ongoing community action campaigns against the giant retail company. Wal-Mart Watch is calling for public action to oppose Wal-Mart’s bank charter application in the state of Utah. Wal-Mart’s attempts to acquire bank charters in other states have failed; however, critics fear that the retail giant stands a much higher chance of achieving lender status due to particular laws in the state of Utah. Community activists are concerned that a bank of Wal-Mart will adversely affect local economies and effectively eliminate any opportunities that small businesses currently have to compete against Wal-Mart.
Campaign URL: www.walmartwatch.com