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Nonprofits of the Month :: May 2010 :: Holding Corporations Accountable

May 19, 2010

[tweetmeme] Corruption on Wall Street. War profiteering. Catastrophic oil spills. Predatory lending. Corporate lobbying on Capitol Hill. Illegal logging of rain forests. Wildlife poaching and animal testing. Sweat shops. The list goes on and on. Almost every problem in the world today has its roots in corporate greed. The nonprofits below are working to empower and educate consumers and corporate accountability activists to keep that greed in check, and to build a more just future for all of us. Hope you follow, friend, subscribe and like:

Twitter: CorpWatch
Facebook: Corporate Accountability International
YouTube: Public Citizen :: What a Gas
MySpace: Rainforest Action Network

Know of other nonprofits working to hold corporations accountable? Please post them below. Thanks.

6 Comments leave one →
  1. May 22, 2010 9:30 am

    All of us need to follow the cause. Being united we can make a big differece, better world for the future.

  2. June 10, 2010 5:20 pm

    Dear Heather,

    Did you know that the government of Peru declared the environment a PERSON?
    Which means that Mother Earth gets her day in court if corporations abuse and rape her!

    How incredible is that?

    Here are some other sites that want to End Corporate Abuse
    http://www.corpwatch.org/
    http://www.protectthehuman.com/demanddignity
    Not to Mention Dandelion Salad!
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/

    Sincerely,

    Mazarine

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      June 11, 2010 2:03 am

      That’s pretty cool. Too bad in America corporation are considered persons. Pretty damn backwards.

  3. November 3, 2010 9:59 pm

    the oil spill in mexico really affected the eco system around that area, it would take years to clean those mess *

  4. December 2, 2010 5:26 pm

    oil spills can really mess up the environment, i hope we can find a very good solution to control oil spills “–

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