Open Directory - Society: Activism: Consumer
See also: - Consumer group opposed to supermarket "club cards" and loyalty programs. Lists the card status of supermarkets across the U.S. - A nationally-recognized, California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization. Deals in insurance reform, healthcare reform, billing errors, and other issues. - 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. - Monthly global business publication providing corporate social, environmental, and financial responsibility news, advice, and examples. - Contains information on boycott campaigns, sweatshop activism, public service, barter and LETSystems to regenerate local economies in the service of local needs. - 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. - 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. - 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. - San Diego California consumer watchdog group advising consumers on energy, utilities and internet issues.
