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Formally known as the United Nations binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), this treaty would serve as a critical tool for people around the world to access justice.":1,"#Por <a ljsid-1=\"\">ari rubinstein</a>":1,"#The Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition then crunched the numbers and exposed that approximately one in every 25 participants at this round of climate talks was representing fossil fuel interests. It’s the highest concentration since this research began, outnumbering delegates from countries on the front lines of the climate crisis.":1,"#Before the U.N. climate talks even started, the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition—which Corporate Accountability helps coordinate—exposed the extent of Big Polluters’ presence over the last four years of climate talks: more than 5,350 fossil fuel lobbyists attended. The coalition’s analysis revealed how much recent oil and gas production some of these Big Polluters have been responsible for while they’ve been undermining climate action. The research was featured in an <a ljsid-1=\"\">exclusive Guardian story</a> that was picked up by outlets around the globe—putting governments and industry on notice on the eve of the climate talks.":1,"#Headlines that <a ljsid-1=\"\">exposed Big Polluters’ presence</a> greeted delegates as they made their way to the U.N. climate treaty negotiations.":1,"#Kicking Big Polluters Out":1,"#So at both the climate and tobacco treaty negotiations, Corporate Accountability partnered with allies around the globe and people like you to challenge these corporations—to protect our health, our freedoms, our communities, and the Earth we call home. Here’s a little bit of what that looked like.":1,"#The corporations and billionaires propping up the wannabe dictator in the U.S. are the same ones blocking climate action and pushing products that kill people and harm the planet. From the U.S., to the highest levels of the U.N., including at these treaty meetings, they’re extending their tentacles, selling snake oil packaged as “solutions” to the problems they’ve fueled—and trying to block real and life-saving solutions.":1,"#Righteous outrage meets corporate capture meets international diplomacy. What went down at the climate and tobacco treaty meetings.":1,"#The People vs. Big Polluters, Big Tobacco, and tentacled corporate monsters | Corporate Accountability":1,"#A giant tentacled monster outside the U.N. offices in Geneva":1,"#Corporate Accountability staff and activists march at the People's Summit":1,"#Protest with a giant sign reading \"Kick out the suits\"":1,"#Screenshot of a news article with the headline: “How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling”":1,"#With people like you by our side, we’ll never stop fighting for a world where corporations answer to people and not the other way around.":1,"#It was a lot, all at once. So let’s break it down:":1,"#So that’s the scoop. People around the world are rising up, confronting the unchecked corporate power that’s frankly at the root of so many of the crises we face (including rising authoritarianism). Corporate Accountability shows up in contested spaces like U.N. treaty meetings because they are democratic forums where people’s needs and experiences—not corporate interests—should be the priority.":1,"#And we saw <a ljsid-1=\"\">great success</a>: despite resistance from governments in Big Tobacco’s pockets, delegates <a ljsid-3=\"\">adopted recommendations</a> for how governments can hold the tobacco industry liable, and will keep developing resources for further guidance in the lead-up to the next meetings in Armenia in 2027. This will accelerate momentum to make Big Tobacco pay for its abuses around the world.":1,"#The next day, we took the demands of nearly 40,000 people straight to the president of the global tobacco treaty talks. The box of petitions said it all: people around the world are calling for <a ljsid-1=\"\">Big Tobacco to pay</a> for fueling death, disease, and environmental destruction.":1,"#To highlight the need to challenge Big Tobacco, we and our allies staged a <a ljsid-1=\"\">street theatre performance</a> and action on the first day of the talks. The spectacle exposed industry interference in a highly visible way, <a ljsid-3=\"\">securing media coverage</a> in the world’s largest Spanish-language wire service. It made clear that we the people were organized, united, and determined to stop tobacco industry interference. And it emphasized our <a ljsid-5=\"\">demands that government delegates</a> use the treaty meetings to curb Big Tobacco’s influence in public health policy and make Big Tobacco pay.":1,"#This year, for example, we made sure that delegates stated clearly who they represented—and that they weren’t there to do Big Tobacco’s bidding. Thanks to our and our many allies’ dogged organizing, <a ljsid-1=\"\">governments representing more than 75% of the world’s population</a> complied with disclosure measures <a ljsid-3=\"\">we secured</a> several years ago.":1,"#Here’s the thing: The global tobacco treaty, which marked its <a ljsid-1=\"\">20th anniversary</a> this year, explicitly states that governments must protect public policy from the interests of Big Tobacco. And Corporate Accountability and our allies were pivotal in securing the <a ljsid-3=\"\">adoption of this provision</a>. But <a ljsid-5=\"\">from the start</a>, the tobacco industry has sought to undermine this measure and infiltrate the treaty talks. So it’s critical that we and our allies show up to protect this space from the <a ljsid-7=\"\">industry’s influence</a>.":1,"#At the same time that climate justice organizers were challenging Big Polluters at the climate talks, activists were going toe-to-toe with Big Tobacco in Geneva.":1,"#Exposing the deadly reach of Big Tobacco through street theater. Photo Credit: Philippe Audi-Dor":1,"#Making Big Tobacco pay for its abuses":1,"#The power of people was on full display at a march at the culmination of the summit that brought nearly 70,000 people out to the streets.":1,"#The vibe? Righteous outrage meets corporate capture meets international diplomacy.":1,"#And during the People’s Summit—which ran alongside the first week of the treaty negotiations and drew 15,000 attendees—the progress we’ve made was evident in the relationships we built and the topics discussed. And after much debate, the final declaration from the summit included a call to make Big Polluters pay for “the socio-environmental debt accumulated through centuries,” a demand to “end the exploitation of fossil fuels,” and an “opposition to any false solutions to the climate crisis.":1,"#While we organized to help shift what’s possible inside the U.N. climate treaty negotiating rooms, we’ve also been collectively shifting what’s possible outside of them. Our Latin America climate campaign has been organizing for several years to move more of the region’s climate movement to challenge corporate abuse, and make Big Polluters pay.":1,"#Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand climate justice":1,"#Building the movement to make Big Polluters pay":1,"#In the end, despite the titanic influence of Big Polluters, we the people secured some hard-fought steps towards climate justice. The climate justice movement laid the groundwork for a pathway towards a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels—a transition that must honor the needs of workers and others on the front lines of the climate crisis. Together, we also successfully delayed and weakened dangerous schemes pushed by Big Polluters at the talks.":1,"#One example: Thousands of folks like you took action, calling on U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to Kick Big Polluters Out of the climate talks, and rein in fossil fuel industry influence through the U.N. Together, <a ljsid-1=\"\">we sent a clear message</a> that, even though the U.S. government may not officially be at the international climate negotiations, we the people are deeply concerned about the climate crisis. And we want real climate solutions that prioritize the lives and needs of people and the planet we call home, not false solutions that put the profit of corporations over our survival.":1,"#To be sure, the institutional power wielded by Big Polluters and the Global North governments in their pockets was on full display. But we the people refused to roll over. We came together and fought with everything we had—at the negotiations and around the world.":1,"#Throughout the climate treaty talks, we joined KBPO partners in protests and events that made it clear: Big Polluters are not welcome!<br ljsid-1=\"\">Photo credit: Bianka Csenki, Artivist Network":1,"#The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition put our collective, global media organizing muscles to work—and as a result, this analysis was cited in dozens of media articles and social media posts around the world. It grabbed headlines in top U.S. outlets like the Financial Times to Newsweek, wire services like Agence-France Presse (AFP) that are syndicated around the world, and local and regional outlets. KBPO’s research was also featured in videos on Instagram and TikTok by news outlets like Channel 4 and activist organizers like Greenpeace, who harnessed it to great effect in confronting one fossil fuel executive at the talks. Altogether, this media coverage helped shift the narrative around who’s calling the shots in the halls of the U.N.—and who really should be.":1,"#But while fossil fuel lobbyists flooded the talks, the people took to the streets and to the media. Together, we were determined to defy Big Polluters and bring new possibilities into being.":1,"#The forums? Two international treaty meetings—one in Belém, Brazil (climate), and the other in Geneva, Switzerland (tobacco control).":1,"#This November, people around the world came together to challenge Big Polluters’ and Big Tobacco’s deadly agendas.":1,"#Belém, Brazil: On November 16, 2025, Rachel Rose Jackson, Director of Climate Research and Policy at Corporate Accountability at issued the ...":1,"#STATEMENT: Corporate Accountability’s Rachel Rose Jackson on this week’s final days of COP30":1,"#November 17, 2025":1,"#On Saturday, November 22, Corporate Accountability Director of Climate Research and Policy Rachel Rose Jackson issued the following statement. As ...":1,"#STATEMENT: COP30 clock winds down — our closing thoughts":1,"#November 22, 2025":1,"#Uscpra_logo_final_black-600":1,"#Jwj_vertical_wordmark_primary_blue":1,"#Blue_future_square_logo_2020_white":1,"#Tju-logo_250px":1,"#Ma-primary_(1)":1,"#Ogan_new_logo":1,"#Screen_shot_2020-05-26_at_12.42.43_pm":1,"#Square_logo":1,"#Ajp_red_logo":1,"#Cpda_logo_color":1,"#Pa-logo-black-square":1,"#Logo_kairos_10-13":1,"#Socialicon2":1,"#Progress-america-logo_(1)":1,"#We_are_instagram_01":1,"#Acre2small":1,"#Opin":1,"#Untitled_(2000_x_2000_px)":1,"#Opt in to email updates from May Day Coalition, Organized Power In Numbers, Action Center on Race and the Economy, The Rising Majority, Progress America, The Labor Force, Kairos Center, People's Action, CPD Action , Corporate Accountability, Adalah Justice Project, Civic Shout, The Juggernaut Project, Oil & Gas Action Network (OGAN), Our Revolution Massachusetts (ORMA), Trader Joe's United, Blue Future, Jobs With Justice, and US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action)":1,"#Only 204,112 more until our goal of 409,600":1,"#205,488 Letters Sent":1,"#US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action)":1,"#Jobs With Justice":1,"#Washington, DC":1,"#Blue Future":1,"#Trader Joe's United":1,"#Our Revolution Massachusetts (ORMA)":1,"#Oil & Gas Action Network (OGAN)":1,"#The Juggernaut Project":1,"#Civic Shout":1,"#Adalah Justice Project":1,"#CPD Action":1,"#People's Action":1,"#Kairos Center":1,"#The Labor Force":1,"#Progress America":1,"#Pasadena, CA":1,"#Organized Power In Numbers":1,"#Additional Sponsors":1,"#May Day Coalition":1,"#Every dollar spent in wars overseas or at home is a dollar we paid for with our taxes - a dollar that could and should go to helping our communities thrive. <strong ljsid-1=\"\">We can have good jobs, better schools, access to healthcare and get our basic needs met. But not while our government works for billionaires and not for us.</strong>":1,"#From Minneapolis and Chicago to Caracas and beyond, Trump is seizing our freedoms in his war to extend rule by the bullies for the billionaires. And the attack on Venezuela is straight out of the authoritarian playbook: distract from unpopularity at home by starting armed conflict abroad. Take action and demand your elected officials condemn the criminal occupation of Venezuela and U.S. cities.":1,"#We will not stand by while Trump occupies nations and let’s ICE loose on behalf of the billionaire class while at home we can’t even afford our groceries.":1,"#This regime isn’t about making our lives better: it’s about billionaires making themselves richer no matter the human cost.":1,"#The attacks by Noem’s ICE militia on our communities are about profit for private prisons and lining the pocketbooks of Trump’s billionaire backers.":1,"#The attack on Venezuela is seizing control of the mineral and energy wealth of Venezuela and handing it over to Big Oil. Trump is beholden to oil corporations like Chevron, Exxon and billionaire oil tycoons like Tim Dunn. These are the same corporations that extract our natural resources from our backyards and exploit workers all over the country - exposing them and their communities to dangerous and sometimes lethal conditions.":1,"#We stand united against a regime that occupies nations and wages war on our cities on behalf of the billionaire class while they jack up our rent, healthcare and groceries.":1,"#We are calling on every elected official in this country to condemn this administration’s reckless aggression.":1,"#As working people of this country we stand in opposition to the illegal attack and occupation of Venezuela and the deadly presence of ICE in our cities.":1,"#Condemn the Criminal Occupation of Venezuela & Our Cities":1,"#Demand elected officials condemn the occupation of Venezuela & our cities - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Demand elected officials condemn the occupation of Venezuela & our cities":1,"#January 12, 2026":1,"#You may receive email updates from <em ljsid-1=\"\">May Day Coalition, Organized Power In Numbers, Action Center on Race and the Economy, The Rising Majority, Progress America, The Labor Force, Kairos Center, People's Action, CPD Action , Corporate Accountability, Adalah Justice Project, Civic Shout, The Juggernaut Project, Oil & Gas Action Network (OGAN), Our Revolution Massachusetts (ORMA), Trader Joe's United, Blue Future, Jobs With Justice, and US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action),</em> the sponsors of this letter campaign.":1,"#, hace más de medio siglo, que quemar combustibles fósiles y usar sus productos según lo previsto daría lugar a la crisis que vemos desarrollarse hoy.":1,"#La crisis climática no fue un accidente. Las":1,"#? ¿O vamos a quitarles el encendedor y actuar rápidamente para apagar el fuego antes de que sea demasiado tarde?":1,"#el planeta se vuelve rápidamente inhabitable":1,"#y cómo":1,"#, cómo":1,"#Los tomadores de decisiones tienen que actuar. ¿Vamos a quedarnos de brazos cruzados y observar cómo":1,"#, la responsabilidad podría ayudar a garantizar nuestra supervivencia y la del planeta. Pero estamos en el último segundo antes de la medianoche para cambiar de rumbo.":1,"#se implementara de manera integral y equitativa":1,"#Con costos tan grandes como estos (incluso antes de considerar los costos sociales, ambientales y otros costos no económicos), simplemente no podemos darnos el lujo de NO hacer responsables a estas industrias mortales. Los recursos que podrían obtenerse a través de la responsabilidad son enormes, al igual que los costos potenciales que podrían evitarse al detener las acciones dañinas de las corporaciones. Si":1,"#914,200 millones de dólares estadounidenses este año":1,"#. Mientras tanto, la industria tabacalera generará ingresos por":1,"#1.8% del producto interno bruto (PIB) mundial anual":1,"#DD: Sí, es lo mismo con la epidemia de tabaquismo. En 2012, el costo económico total de fumar fue del":1,"#Bueno, para empezar, los costos económicos asociados con la crisis climática son enormes. En 2021, solo 10 desastres relacionados con el clima, desde la tormenta de invierno en Texas hasta los ciclones en el sur de Asia, costaron más de":1,"#de larga data han desbloqueado miles de millones de dólares para la salud pública.":1,"#. y las acciones de responsabilidad":1,"#Master Settlement Agreement en los EE. UU":1,"#ha presentado una demanda contra la industria tabacalera por daños y perjuicios por el equivalente a 51.9 millones de dólares por los costos relacionados con la salud de las enfermedades provocadas por el tabaquismo. En el Norte Global, el Acuerdo Transaccional de los Estados de la Unión o":1,"#ha presentado una demanda contra dos grandes corporaciones tabacaleras para recuperar los costos de atención médica, los daños morales y los costos anticipados de salud.":1,"#que se pueden utilizar o desarrollar para responsabilizar a las corporaciones. Por ejemplo, en el Sur Global,":1,"#Muchos países ya cuentan con":1,"#Por ejemplo, ha proporcionado recursos y ha allanado el camino para una política de salud pública que salva vidas. Ha proporcionado miles de millones de dólares en compensación que, a su vez, se han utilizado para abordar los daños y promover soluciones. Ha obligado a la industria tabacalera a revelar millones de documentos internos condenatorios que construyeron una base de evidencia que documenta su mala conducta. La responsabilidad también ayudó a quitarle la licencia social a la industria tabacalera y abrió debates sobre cómo los ejecutivos o corporaciones tabacaleras pueden considerarse":1,"#La historia de la responsabilidad de la industria tabacalera ha demostrado que la responsabilidad puede desbloquear miles de millones de dólares para cubrir costos, reparar daños, terminar con el abuso corporativo y promover la justicia. No tenemos que preguntarnos si la responsabilidad funciona, porque en el caso de la epidemia de tabaquismo, se ha demostrado que sí.":1,"#, que pide a los gobiernos que utilicen la responsabilidad como una herramienta para exigir a la industria tabacalera que asuma las consecuencias de sus daños y a promover la salud pública.":1,"#Cuando los litigios globales de la industria tabacalera comenzaron a aumentar en la década de 1990, los gobiernos se dieron cuenta de la necesidad de regular el tabaco. Esto finalmente condujo a la adopción del tratado global sobre el control del tabaco o el Convenio Marco para el Control del Tabaco de la OMS (CMCT) en 2003. La “responsabilidad” se consideró tan fundamental para abordar la epidemia del tabaquismo que los defensores de la salud pública lograron garantizar la inclusión del":1,"#. Esto permitió a los defensores del control del tabaco identificar todo tipo de abuso, como violaciones de derechos, infracción de leyes de comercio, y otros. Estas revelaciones, en parte, validaron la necesidad de un tratado global fuerte y la subsiguiente acción nacional para la ratificación.":1,"#la publicación de miles de documentos internos de la industria":1,"#La responsabilidad de la industria tabacalera y el desarrollo de un fuerte tratado internacional sobre el control del tabaco han ido de la mano. De hecho, los casos de responsabilidad que tuvieron lugar en los tribunales judiciales de los EE.UU. contra la industria tabacalera dieron lugar a":1,"#son dos grandes recursos para responsabilizar, respectivamente, a las contaminantes (entre ellas la de los combustibles fósiles) y a la industria tabacalera. Ilustran las formas en que la responsabilidad puede ser utilizada por una variedad de tomadores de decisión, incluidos quiénes formulan las políticas públicas y la sociedad civil, para desbloquear las finanzas y otros recursos necesarios para abordar la crisis climática y de salud pública.":1,"#, participar en negocios turbios. La responsabilidad también obstaculiza la capacidad de las precitadas corporaciones para continuar generando daños.":1,"#En términos generales, la “responsabilidad” se refiere a las acciones tomadas para hacer que las corporaciones, industrias u otros actores respondan por el daño que causan. Las comunidades y los gobiernos han practicado alguna forma de responsabilidad durante siglos. A menudo implica acciones legales; sin embargo, también puede involucrar herramientas legislativas, políticas o culturales. Estas incluyen medidas como reparaciones, establecer legislación vinculante, desbloquear barreras a la justicia, poner fin a subsidios, investigaciones o juicios, por nombrar algunas. Colectivamente, tienen el poder de detener el lavado de imagen que le permite a las corporaciones, al presentarse como empresas":1,"#Francés":1,"#Inglés":1,"#Este blog se encuentra disponible en":1,"#Los llamados u obligados a pagar y a soportar los daños de estas corporaciones transnacionales, terminan siendo las personas y los gobiernos del Sur Global, que en la práctica son los más afectados por la crisis climática y los nichos de negocio de la industria tabacalera Para muchos gobiernos del Sur Global, esto implica quitar recursos a servicios esenciales como la educación, la seguridad alimentaria y la vivienda.":1,"#. Así como esperamos que los gobiernos estructuren y formen mejores marcos para la cooperación internacional, como los regímenes de responsabilidad internacional.":1,"#¡Definitivamente! Los gobiernos deben continuar apoyando a la Secretaría del CMCT para completar su mandato de las reuniones del CMCT anteriores (COPs, por sus siglas en inglés), para crear herramientas y recursos para ayudar a las partes con el Artículo 19. También deben asegurarse de que esté en la agenda de la COP10 tal como se adoptó durante la":1,"#Sí, ha sido inspirador ver cómo los litigios relacionados con el tabaco han ayudado a impulsar acciones de responsabilidad en otros espacios. El artículo 19 del CMCT proporciona una base sólida para que los defensores del control del tabaco, los encargados de formular políticas climáticas y la sociedad civil de todo el mundo se expandan y adapten para ser aún más visionarios y audaces. Como se ha dicho, ahora estamos presenciando una tendencia creciente de empresas contaminantes (entre ellas la de los combustibles fósiles) que son investigadas o demandadas por su papel en el cambio climático. Y los formuladores de políticas de la ONU están buscando un tratado legalmente vinculante para las corporaciones transnacionales.":1,"#, que ya ha causado miles de muertes. Y no es el único lugar del mundo donde se desarrolla":1,"#. Muchas de estas empresas sabían que las consecuencias de sus acciones implicarían la devastación de las personas y el planeta.":1,"#. Las emisiones globales que han provocado el cambio climático se pueden rastrear hasta":1,"#8.7 millones de muertes en 2018":1,"#, y la contaminación por combustibles fósiles causó":1,"#para garantizar que la responsabilidad apoye directamente a los países y comunidades de primera línea, cumpla con las responsabilidades diferenciadas y evite la dependencia de las precitadas industrias.":1,"#de acciones locales, nacionales e internacionales para responsabilizar a las corporaciones contaminantes (entre ellas la de los combustibles fósiles), que también incluye un conjunto de":1,"#Es por eso que los defensores de la justicia climática y los expertos en políticas de todo el mundo saben que la responsabilidad es una herramienta necesaria para abordar las crisis. Juntos, hemos creado una":1,"#y gastaron miles de millones de dólares cubriendo sus huellas y orquestando la dependencia de las economías y los sistemas energéticos de los combustibles fósiles.":1,"#We know systemic racism and corporate power are deeply intertwined. Learn more about our focus areas for supporting Black communities.":1,"#That discovery eventually led him to Corporate Accountability, where he joined as campaigns administrator in 2013. Today he directs all of the organization’s communications program. He’s committed to ensuring the campaigns have a huge impact in advancing justice and making a tangible impact on people’s lives.":1,"#Three people engaging in a panel discussion, with the person closest to the camera talking into the microphone.":1,"#Together, we’re challenging the corporations threatening our communities, livelihoods, and freedoms. Learn more in this year's annual report.":1,"#Exposing corporate climate schemes, protecting public water, and making Big Tobacco pay. Learn what you’re making possible.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 3, 2025":1,"#November 25, 2025":1,"#Office:":1,"#Toll Free:":1,"#Elvis has held many roles across the social movement sector. He served as the Organizing Director and Executive Director of Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, a statewide power building organization advancing the interests of working people. He also held leadership roles at the National Guestworker Alliance (now Resilience Force), which organized seafood supply chain workers, and the Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative, which built a diverse coalition of community-based organizations advocating for workers’ rights. His passion for getting people to believe in themselves and the power of collective action is something he’s carried with him throughout his career.":1,"#At the dawn of the Great Recession, Elvis experienced his first brief glimpses of the possibility of a world liberated from corporate tyranny. As a new organizer apprentice fresh off a door-knocking shift, he watched as people danced in the street because of organized people power, electing a new president in the hopes of combating inequality and righting historical wrongs. A month later, a group of courageous workers, that Elvis would later work with, shocked the world by occupying their factory to fight against corporate greed. The magic, joy, and unfulfilled promise of those moments committed him to building the power of working people in the hopes of extending those fleeting moments of possibility into the everyday reality all people deserve. Along the way he fell in love with the spirit, kinship, and beautiful rhythms of movement work.":1,"#Explore the Black Collective’s framework!":1,"#de relaciones públicas":1,"#buscó otros contratos lucrativos":1,"#informó a los residentes de Flint que su agua era potable":1,"#debatir":1,"#un mayor riesgo de muerte por enfermedades cardiovasculares":1,"#compartió con los periodistas":1,"#demencia precoz":1,"#St. Louis":1,"#detuvimos una grave amenaza de privatización del agua":1,"#las tres demandas":1,"#las corporaciones":1,"#actor gubernamental":1,"#sugieren":1,"#experimentar retrasos en el aprendizaje":1,"#facturas de agua inasequibles, pérdida de empleos y un servicio de peor calidad":1,"#se centren en ciudades con problemas de liquidez":1,"#10 millones de galones de aguas residuales sin tratar":1,"#Plymouth, MA:":1,"#denunciaron":1,"#por una filial de Veolia":1,"#En 2004":1,"#Gabón:":1,"#cambió un producto químico de control de corrosión":1,"#Pittsburgh, PA:":1,"#mayoría de los residentes":1,"#el suroeste del condado de San Diego":1,"#Buffalo":1,"#lo expresó sucintamente":1,"#de Pittsburgh":1,"#comunidades":1,"#la acción federal":1,"#las empresas":1,"#gobierno":1,"#acuerdo":1,"#esfuerzos":1,"#de acceso confiable a agua potable":1,"#autorizó":1,"#FESAR organizes at the nexus of the public health and environmental movements. Originally founded with the mission of supporting people infected with Tuberculosis in Ecuador in 2006, the organization quickly expanded its work to focus on tobacco control. Through coalition building and advocacy, FESAR has secured tobacco-free ordinances in multiple cities and strengthened the country’s national tobacco law. The team partners with Corporate Accountability’s tobacco campaign to advance accountability for Big Tobacco on local, national, and international levels. They strategically expose the tobacco industry for its abuses in key policy spaces and train youth to reject Big Tobacco’s marketing around vaping and e-cigarettes. For example, in shopping centers across Ecuador, their youth alliance advanced administrative claims against several e-cigarette stores denouncing advertising that targets children. FESAR applies strategies for reining in this deadly industry to other movements, from climate to plastic pollution. Their organizing is critical to the movement challenging Big Tobacco in Latin America and across the globe. Learn more about <a ljsid-1=\"\">FESAR</a>.":1,"#Fundación Ecuatoriana de Salud Respiratoria (FESAR)":1,"#y el":1,"#Elvis Mendez leads Corporate Accountability's campaigns, ensuring that we are building power to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.":1,"#Elvis Mendez - Corporate Accountability":1,"#He studied Social Thought and Political Economy at UMASS Amherst, went on to earn a masters in public policy at the School of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, and is finishing a Masters of Science in Labor Studies at UMASS Amherst. He lives in Chicago with his family, and is an avid fan of basketball, stand-up comedy, and pasta.":1,"#At Corporate Accountability, Elvis supports the campaigns teams, ensuring that we’re building power to protect people and the planet above corporate interests.":1,"#As an immigrant growing up between two worlds, a working class community in Massachusetts and summers with his extended family in the Dominican Republic, Elvis saw firsthand how transnational corporations take advantage of and profit from Global South communities in the U.S. and abroad. “Corporate Accountability’s history of confronting concentrated power resonates with me strongly,” he says. “Being a part of this work, and organizing to build a better world, is my way of loving my community, ancestors, and future generations.”":1,"#Luego enterraron la verdad":1,"#mil millones de personas son desplazadas":1,"#¡Exactamente! La responsabilidad se trata de redirigir los fondos para que las comunidades que se encuentran en la primera línea de estas crisis puedan abordar los daños y promover soluciones simultáneamente; al mismo tiempo que ponen fin a las prácticas comerciales que amenazan la vida.":1,"#penalmente responsables":1,"#mueren millones de personas":1,"#En pocas palabras, las corporaciones contaminantes (entre ellas la de los combustibles fósiles) han incendiado nuestra casa y están dejando que se quemen hasta los cimientos. Y le están echando más gasolina para que se queme aún más rápido.":1,"#Se está acumulando evidencia de que las acciones de la industria de los combustibles fósiles pueden estar asociadas directa o indirectamente con muertes humanas y devastación ambiental.":1,"#principios":1,"#un pequeño grupo de corporaciones contaminantes":1,"#la violencia relacionada con los combustibles fósiles":1,"#permitir la guerra actual en Ucrania":1,"#Artículo 19":1,"#hoja de ruta":1,"#industrias contaminantes sabían":1,"#canadienses":1,"#conjunto de herramientas de responsabilidad civil":1,"#amigables con la salud o el planeta":1,"#hoja de ruta de la responsabilidad":1,"#La investigación de Corporate Accountability sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono siguen fracasando en gran medida.":1,"#Zikora Ibeh":1,"#Three friends at mobilization challenging rise of fascism in the U.S. holding signs that read \"no kings!\" and \"people over profit\"":1,"#Challenging the corporate “pillar of support” behind the Trump regime is a critical in this moment. Learn how Corporate Accountability is approaching this work.":1,"#Field notes for transformation: Fall 2025":1,"#September 25, 2025":1,"#My name is Jonathan Rubenstein. I’m a father, a mental health professional, and the rabbi of a community that is very concerned about the environmental harm and human suffering caused by the fast food industry. I have a question on behalf of a student at a local elementary school. He writes: My name is Isaac, ...":1,"#Statement: Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein on McDonald's 2016 shareholders' meeting - Corporate Accountability":1,"#When will you stop marketing an unhealthy lifestyle to children like me?":1,"#After participating in this action my family and I made the decision not to eat at McDonald’s anymore. We want to put food into our body that does not cause obesity or other illnesses. Since the protest I have noticed that McDonald’s is making some changes. While this is a start, it does not address the fact that McDonald’s wants to use kids to make money off of food that is not sustainably produced or healthy for our bodies.":1,"#My name is Isaac, I am a fifth grade student at the Academy for Global Citizenship. Last year my class and I participated in a protest against McDonald’s use of Ronald McDonald and their child-targeted advertising.":1,"#My name is Jonathan Rubenstein. I’m a father, a mental health professional, and the rabbi of a community that is very concerned about the environmental harm and human suffering caused by the fast food industry. I have a question on behalf of a student at a local elementary school. He writes:":1,"#Statement: Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein on McDonald’s 2016 shareholders’ meeting":1,"#May 26, 2016":1,"#Lagos":1,"#Providence":1,"#Baltimore":1,"#Corporate power is out of control. Transnational corporations treat our air, water, and food as commodities to be exploited. They dismantle democracy. They trample human rights, destroy our planet, and threaten our lives.Unchecked corporate power is the reason why our right to clean, safe water is threatened in the U.S. and around the world. Why ...":1,"#Manifesto - Corporate Accountability":1,"#We are a force to be reckoned with. With you by our side, we are stronger still. Join our global campaign today—and help us build a just future for all.":1,"#Corporate Accountability has what transnational corporations will never have: the power of people who believe another world is possible. We have a long track record of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people around the world to ensure the most dangerous corporations and their proxies answer for the destruction they cause.":1,"#The toxic influence of transnational corporations might seem unbeatable…but we prove otherwise.":1,"#Transnational corporations treat our air, water, and food as commodities to be exploited. They dismantle democracy. They trample human rights, destroy our planet, and threaten our lives.Unchecked corporate power is the reason why our right to clean, safe water is threatened in the U.S. and around the world. Why fossil fuels are pumped from the ground at the peril of our planet. Why our food makes us sick instead of nourishing us. Why our elections are sold to the highest bidder.":1,"#Corporate power is out of control.":1,"#DANIEL DORADO:":1,"#DD:":1,"#RRJ:":1,"#Photo credit: Mathias Reding on Unsplash":1},"version":7160}]