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en españolBreaking the Chains: Links
Links to Groups Promoting
Ethical Consumer & Business Practices
Breaking the Chains Home | Workers Rights and Anti-Sweatshop Groups | Anti-Sprawl & Independent Business Advocates | Local Food Systems
Global Exchange
Global Exchange
is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting
environmental, political and social justice.
National Consumers League
For 100
years the National Consumers League has carried forward this founding
principle: the working conditions we accept for our fellow citizens
should be reflected by our purchases.
Americans at Work
Americans at Work is a directory of American Made Products divided in to numerous categories
As You Sow
As You Sow
is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting corporate social
responsibility.
Co-op America
Co-op America,
a national nonprofit organization founded in 1982, provides the economic
strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and
individuals to address today's social and environmental problems.
Ethical Consumer
The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names
Citizen Works
Citizen
Works is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization
founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening
citizen participation in power.
Center for
Corporate Policy
The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
The Aurora Institute
The Aurora Institute is a charitable, not-for-profit, citizens-based organization. Our mission is to conduct innovative research and provide public education on the role and structure of public and private institutions in a democratic society.
Wal-Mart Watch
A resource
providing information on Wal-mart's poor employment practices, community
exploitation, and other unethical business practices. It
also posts current and past Wal-mart news headlines.
The
Multinational Monitor
The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment
Responsible Shopper
An online source for consumers and investors looking for independent information
about the social and environmental practices of some of the country's most influential
consumer product companies.
SourceWatch
SourceWatch's primary focus is on documenting public relations firms,
think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly
experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on
behalf of corporations, governments and special interests..
Reclaim Democracy
Reclaim
Democracy works to create a representative democracy with an actively
participating public, where citizens don't merely choose from a menu
of options determined by elites, but play an active role in guiding
the country and political agenda.
Community
Environmental
Legal Defense Fund
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) was launched in 1995 to provide free and affordable legal services to grassroots, community-based environmental groups, and rural municipal governments.
The
180 Movement
for Democracy and Education
The 180/Movement
for Democracy and Education is dedicated to helping build a campus-based
movement for political empowerment and participatory democracy.
Adbusters
ADBUSTERS is dedicated to reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer culture and building a brave new understanding of living.
Corporate Watch (US)
CorpWatch
counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building
and activism.
POCLAD
Program on Corporations,
Law, and Democracy.
ASEED:
Action for Solidarity, Equality,
Environment & Development
a network that initiates actions and campaigns on environmental and social justice issues.
Corporate Watch
Corporate Watch is a small independent not-for-profit research and publishing group which undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large corporations, particularly multinationals.
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Workers Rights and Anti-Sweatshop Groups
Behind The Label
BehindTheLabel.org
is a multimedia news website covering the stories of people fighting
for fundamental human and labor rights against the goliath global clothing
industry.
Fair Labor Association (FLA)
The Fair Labor Association is a non-profit organization combining the efforts of industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), colleges and universities to promote adherence to international labor standards and improve working conditions worldwide.
International Labor Rights Fund
ILRF is
an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment
for workers worldwide.
National Labor Committee
The National
Labor Committee is an independent, non-profit human rights organization
focusing on the protection and promotion of workers' rights.
Solidarity Center
(AFL-CIO
affiliated)
The Solidarity
Center is a non-profit organization that assists workers around the
world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade
unions.
Sweatshop Watch
Founded
in 1995, Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of over 30 labor, community,
civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations,
and many individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that
occurs in sweatshops.
United
Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers’ rights.
Workers Rights Consortium (WRC)
The
WRC's purpose is to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes
of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities; these Codes are designed
to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing
college and university names respect the basic rights of workers.
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Anti-Sprawl and Independent Business Advocates
American
Independent
Business Alliance
Antidotes to Sprawl, EPA
While Federal
agencies are not the appropriate venue for local land-use decisions,
these organizations can provide assistance in the forms of grant funds,
data and information, and technical assistance to communities interested
in more sustainable urban development alternatives.
Congress for the New Urbanism
Congress for the
New Urbanism (CNU) is a Chicago-based non-profit organization that
was founded in 1993. We work with architects, developers, planners,
and others involved in the creation of cities and towns, teaching them
how to implement the principles of the New Urbanism.
Local Government Commision
The Local Government
Commission (LGC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization
that provides inspiration, technical assistance, and networking
to local elected officials and other dedicated community leaders
who are working to create healthy, walkable, and resource-efficient
communities.
National Trust Main Street Center
The National Trust
Main Street Center is a program of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. In the 1970s, the National Trust developed its pioneering
Main Street approach to commercial district revitalization, an innovative
methodology that combines historic preservation with economic development
to restore prosperity and vitality to downtowns and neighborhood business
districts.
Smart Growth Online
Spurring the smart
growth movement are demographic shifts, a strong environmental ethic,
increased fiscal concerns, and more nuanced views of growth. The result
is both a new demand and a new opportunity for smart growth.
Sprawl Busters
No matter what the
logo on the building says--Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, Lowe's, Kohls,
CVS--if its unwanted development, Sprawl-Busters can help you stop
it. In hundreds of communities, we have helped citizens groups strategize
and carry out a plan to stop the superstores.
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
An online clearinghouse of websites and printed matter having to do with stemming urban sprawl and promoting the smart growth of communities.
Stopping Sprawl, Sierra Club
The Challenge
to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development
and promotes smart growth communities that increase transportation
choices, reduce air and water pollution, and protect our natural places.
New
Rules Project
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Why New Rules? Because
the old ones don't work any longer. They undermine local economies,
subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs
of our decisions on the next generation.
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Local Food Systems
Community Food Security Coalition
The
Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North
American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and
regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally
appropriate food for all people at all times.
The Food Project
Our mission is to
grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from
diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system.
We produce healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs and provide
youth leadership opportunities. Most importantly, we strive to
inspire and support others to create change in their own communities.
Food Share
At
FoodShare we work on food issues "from field to table" - meaning
that we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the
growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking
and consumption.
Food Security Learning Center
The
FSLC is an electronic learning center that pulls together in one place information
on community food security, nutrition, domestic hunger and poverty, federal
food programs, rural poverty, the family farm crisis, and migrant workers
The People's Grocery
People's Grocery is a community-based organization working to
find creative solutions to the food needs of the residents of
West Oakland by building a local food system and local economy.
Sustainable Food Center
Our mission is to create a food secure community by improving access to local, healthy and affordable food for children and adults in Central Texas.
