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Consumer Activism is citizen action aimed at influencing corporate decisions, corporate power, and public policy as it relates to consumers and corporate operations.

Subcategories

• Socially Responsible Investing

Resources in This Category

• CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering

  http://www.nocards.org/
  Consumer group opposed to supermarket "club cards" and loyalty programs. Lists the card status of supermarkets across the U.S.

• Consumer Watchdog

  http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/
  A nationally-recognized, California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization. Deals in insurance reform, healthcare reform, billing errors, and other issues.

• Ethical Consumer

  http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
  Tips on ethical buying, consumer reports on a wide range of goods, information on UK and worldwide boycotts. Publishes Ethical Consumer magazine and the Corporate Critic database.

• Ethical Corporation

  http://www.ethicalcorp.com/
  Monthly global business publication providing corporate social, environmental, and financial responsibility news, advice, and examples.

• Green America

  http://www.greenamericatoday.org/
  Contains information on boycott campaigns, sweatshop activism, public service, barter and LETSystems to regenerate local economies in the service of local needs.

• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
  Online exhibit from the Library of Congress that assembles a variety of source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.

• Socially Responsible Consumer

  http://www.responsibleconsumer.net/
  Information and products for consumers who want their spending and investing to support their values. Emphasizes inteconnections between human rights, animal rights and welfare, and environment.

• The Dunning Letter

  http://thedunningletter.blogspot.com/
  Weblog dedicated to protecting consumer privacy in junk mail personal data and promotion of individual's right to control and protect name and private information.

• UCAN - Utility Consumers' Action Network

  http://www.ucan.org/
  San Diego California consumer watchdog group advising consumers on energy, utilities and internet issues.

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