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Director ejecutivo":1,"#de Vrinda Manglik":1,"#Pronouns: She/her or they/them":1,"#Google Analytics":1,"#Lidy Nacpil is an activist working on economic, environmental, social and gender justice issues in national, regional, and global campaigns. She is the coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, co-coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, and member of the global Coordinating Committee of the Global Alliance on Tax ...":1,"#Lidy Nacpil - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Lidy Nacpil is an activist working on economic, environmental, social and gender justice issues in national, regional, and global campaigns. She is the coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, co-coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, and member of the global Coordinating Committee of the Global Alliance on Tax Justice. She also serves as the convener of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.":1,"#Tens of thousands of people — including you! — took action with us or gave a gift to challenge corporate abuse. Your support made it possible to redistribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations around the world who are directly impacted by and are organizing to challenge corporate power.":1,"#When you read the report, you’ll see just how pivotal you are in this movement to hold corporations accountable for the harms they are causing.":1,"#This is just a snapshot of the impact that we’ve had together this year. You can read more about what you’ve made possible in the 2022 Annual Report.":1,"#And as corporations were exploiting Juneteenth as a PR moment to advance their image, we exposed their underlying motives. For example, we created a graphic representation of Wells Fargo’s history of racism and abuse. And then, we mobilized members like you to support H.R. 40, pushing forward the work for national legislation on reparations.":1,"#And when industry lobbyists tried to funnel billions of dollars into private coffers through the national infrastructure bill, we and our allies secured $50 billion for public water systems — while keeping provisions for corporations like Veolia out.":1,"#When hundreds of fossil fuel executives registered for the U.N. climate meetings to advance their agenda, your support helped mobilize thousands of people to take action to kick Big Polluters out.":1,"#I am so grateful for all of the ways that you’ve supported Corporate Accountability this year in challenging corporate abuse and advancing justice.":1,"#Together, we are a force for change - Corporate Accountability":1,"#You are truly a force for change, and I’m grateful to do this work in partnership with you. In times when there is so much that could cause despair, you keep rising up. I’m inspired by what we make possible together as we work toward a just world.":1,"#Mastercard scheme to keep polluting in Brazil":1,"#Wall Street Journal: Black Rock, Philip Morris,":1,"#Builded to Fail”,":1,"#Nuevos hallazgos examinan la naturaleza problemática de los mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono basados en Brasil, país anfitrión de ...":1,"#March 6, 2026":1,"#All 37 problematic projects assessed in more detail had a legitimate risk of having at least on":1,"#More than 47.7 million problematic offsets credit":1,"#The new report “Built to Fail? World’s largest carbon offset projects unlikely to deliver promised emissions reductions despite ongoing reforms,” reveals that in 2024, the VCM 2.0 appeared to be saturated with a vast volume of projects and offsets that could not be reliably counted on to deliver the promised emissions reductions. We refer to these types of projects and offsets as “problematic.” Specifically, the research finds that:
More than 47.7 million problematic offsets credit":1,"#New findings examine the problematic
nature of the largest carbon offsets
projects based in Brazil":1,"#Read the briefing to learn more.":1,"#So why is the carbon market still so popular, despite growing evidence that it is failing and flawed?":1,"#This research expands upon Corporate Accountability’s report “Built to Fail,” which revealed that despite ongoing “reforms” of the VCM, more than 47.7 million problematic offset credits were retired through 43 of the world’s largest offsets projects in 2024. This volume represents nearly one-quarter of the entire VCM in 2024. It shows that Brazil is just one example of how carbon offsets and the carbon market are not a proven, meaningful, and permanent pathway to global emissions reduction.":1,"#Many of the largest offsets in Brazil are among the largest projects in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) around the globe, including Pacajai REDD+, ranked the 7th largest project by credits retired in the world in 2024.":1,"#Major international corporations, including BlackRock, Shell, Philip Morris, and EY retired problematic credits from these Brazil-based projects between January 2024 and June 2025.":1,"#Verra, the world’s largest carbon offsets industry, hosts the majority of these problematic projects in Brazil, accounting for 12.8 million carbon offsets retired in this period.":1,"#Nearly 75% of credits from the top 50 carbon offsets projects retired in Brazil between January 2024 – June 2025 are “problematic” and should not be relied upon to deliver emissions cuts.":1,"#Research underscores the failures within the Voluntary Carbon Market in Brazil, COP30 host country, as the climate talks conclude.":1,"#BRIEFING: Over 70% of all carbon credits recently retired in Brazil are problematic - Corporate Accountability":1,"#New findings examine the problematic nature of the largest carbon offsets projects based in Brazil, host of the 2025 U.N. climate treaty talks (COP30). The research suggests there is little evidence that these projects are likely to deliver the promised emissions reductions.":1,"#BRIEFING: Over 70% of all carbon credits recently retired in Brazil are problematic":1,"#Ayude a desbloquear $10,000 a
challenge corporate power by March 5!":1,"#Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres,":1,"#enfrentaron a una violenta represión":1,"#y han ganado.":1,"#posible que los trabajadores agrícolas se sindicalizaran":1,"#727 Atlantic Ave, Floor 4":1,"#We always welcome questions and feedback from our members and the public. To best answer your inquiries and requests we provide a variety of ways to contact us. By email: info@corporateaccountability.org By Telephone: Toll Free: +1 800-688-8797 Office: +1 617-695-2525 By Fax: +1 617-695-2626 By Mail: Corporate Accountability 727 Atlantic Ave, Floor 4 Boston, MA ...":1,"#Boston, MA 02111":1,"#Help unlock $10,000 to
challenge corporate power by March 5!":1,"#ACT NOW!":1,"#Unblock":1,"#Content blocked. Click Unblock to set your consent level for this website and view the content.":1,"#corporateaccountability.org":1,"#Spotlight: Colectivo Negro":1,"#The new report “Built to Fail? World’s largest carbon offset projects unlikely to deliver promised emissions reductions despite ongoing reforms,” reveals that in 2024, the VCM 2.0 appeared to be saturated with a vast volume of projects and offsets that could not be reliably counted on to deliver the promised emissions reductions. We refer to these types of projects and offsets as “problematic.” Specifically, the research finds that:":1,"#Challenging powerful transnational corporations ultimately cost Cáceres her life, but her spirit and legacy continues to live on. Her daughter, Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres is currently General Coordinator of COPINH — the position her mother occupied before she was murdered. Today, COPINH continues its fight for the rights of the Lenca people and Indigenous communities all over Honduras, and for a world where corporations do not and cannot operate with impunity.":1,"#Despite the victory, threats against Cáceres continued to escalate until March 3, 2016, when she was murdered by gunmen in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. Her death was followed by the killing of several other COPINH and environmental activists just mere days later, leading to international outrage. Cáceres is survived by her four children and husband, and although several men have been charged with her murder, the full extent of Cáceres’ assassination is still under investigation.":1,"#The strong protests and fierce opposition against the Agua Zarca Dam was met with violent repression not only from the developers of the project, but also from armed private security police and military personnel. Cáceres herself received countless threats of rape, murder, and physical harm for her role in leading this campaign. Yet, despite all odds, COPINH and the Lenca community’s efforts successfully blocked all attempts to continue the dam’s construction. Eventually several of the corporations and international financial institutions involved withdrew their funding and support for the project, effectively ending it.":1,"#One such project was the Agua Zarca Dam, a joint venture between several corporations and the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. Noticing an influx of machinery and construction equipment in their town, the Lenca people initially approached COPINH in 2006 to investigate the project. What Cáceres learnt during the course of her investigation sparked a years-long struggle against the project by COPINH , under Cáceres’ leadership and with full support and involvement from the Lenca community.":1,"#Born to the Lenca people in Honduras, Cáceres grew up during a time of violence and civil unrest in Central America. Her journey in activism began in 1993, when she co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) to support the right of Indigenous peoples in the country. She fearlessly challenged illegal loggers, plantation owners, and multinational corporations carrying out mega-projects that often encroached upon Indigenous lands and destroyed Indigenous livelihoods.":1,"#Berta Cáceres was an Indigenous leader, a human rights defender, and an environmental activist who led a grassroots campaign to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam that would threaten the Lenca peoples’ way of life and their access to important needs such as water, food, and medicine.":1,"#In honor of Women’s History Month, we are remembering Berta Cáceres, an Indigenous leader, a human rights defender, and an environmental activist who led a grassroots campaign to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Honduras.":1,"#In this moment of corporate power run amok, we remember the long history of people challenging corporate power -- and winning.":1,"#Women challenging corporate power: Berta Cáceres - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In honor of Women’s History Month, we will be writing a series of articles on a few of the activists we admire, are inspired by, and on whose shoulders we stand.":1,"#Coolloud":1,"#In this moment of corporate power run amok, with each new headline demanding a response, and with so much at stake, it’s important to remember that there is a long history of people challenging corporate power — and winning.":1,"#Women challenging corporate power: Berta Caceres stands at the COPINH (the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) offices in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras.":1,"#Photo credit: Coolloud on Flickr.":1,"#Women challenging corporate power: Berta Cáceres":1,"#March 12, 2021":1,"#Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) research release underscores what we already know about Big Polluters \"junk\" carbon offsets":1,"#Corporate Accountability welcomes resistance by Science Backed Targets initiative to endorse Big Polluters’ junk carbon offsets":1,"#Corporate Accountability welcomes resistance by Science Based Targets initiative to endorse Big Polluters’ junk carbon offsets - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In advance of its SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standards anticipated later this year, the SBTi appears poised to continue resisting lobbying efforts by carbon market proponents to endorse the broad use of carbon offsets in corporate emissions reductions plans. This development comes on the back of a slew of investigations in the media and among experts that have repeatedly exposed the apparent “junkiness” of many of the world’s largest offsets projects, resulting in a reported 61% decrease in the voluntary carbon market last year. Corporate Accountability will release new findings this fall that will continue to expose the myriad of ways carbon offsets and the global voluntary carbon market is riddled with junk. Please reach out if you’d like to discuss this research, or ways our analysis can lend to related stories you may be developing.":1,"#“This development legitimizes what the mounting evidence is increasingly laying bare for all to see– that carbon offsets are no more than a get-out-of-jail-free card for the world’s largest polluters. They have not led to global emissions reductions, do not work effectively at the scale required, and often cause harm to local communities or ecosystems. Given all the evidence–and the decades of time that have been wasted–carbon offsets are no cornerstone of climate action, and it’s encouraging to see the SBTi acting with warranted caution. What is not so encouraging is why world governments and decision-makers continue to pander such a dangerous distraction when the clock of climate action is very nearly up. We need to see climate action plans that mirror the seriousness of the crisis they are meant to address. For a start, this means rapidly reducing emissions at source, eliminating avoidance on technologies and schemes that only shift around rather than permanently reduce emissions, and rapidly and justly shifting off of fossil fuels.”":1,"#Rachel Rose Jackson, Director of Climate Research & Policy, said, in a statement this morning:":1,"#Boston, MA–Today, Corporate Accountability welcomed the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) release of new research that underscores its hesitancy to condone big corporate polluters’ use of junk carbon offsets as meaningful emissions reductions. The Evidence Synthesis Report Part One: Carbon Credits was issued alongside a statement on findings of the independent systemic review on the back of a series of investigations by media and global experts exposing the multiple failures of carbon offsets. These papers and others released by SBTi this week underscore Corporate Accountability recent analysis of the dangerous distraction from effective climate action that voluntary carbon markets create, and reveal of some of the largest corporate actors in the scam.":1,"#Hall is director of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich Business School. PSIRU is the research arm of the international public service workers union, Public Services International (PSI). He researches and teaches the politics and economics of public services and privatization and is a foremost expert on water privatization. He has special ...":1,"#David Hall - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Hall is director of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich Business School. PSIRU is the research arm of the international public service workers union, Public Services International (PSI). He researches and teaches the politics and economics of public services and privatization and is a foremost expert on water privatization. He has special expertise in the sectors of water, energy, and waste management.":1,"#Image credit: Paloma Rae":1,"#Sam Marinelli brings her passion for challenging corporate greed and her skills in accounting and operations to the Corporate Accountability team.":1,"#Sam Marinelli - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In her free time, Sam organizes with the local LGTBQ+ community, tests out new dessert recipes (her apple cider donuts are a Corporate Accountability team favorite) and spends time with her two dogs, Bear and Falcon.":1,"#She has a masters degree in international law and diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Bachelor’s degree in International relations and economics at Simmons University. She also co-teaches a class at the Harvard Extension School on microeconomic theory. Her critique on corporate “pinkwashing” and “greenwashing” was published in The Fletcher School’s Climate Policy Lab.":1,"#At Corporate Accountability, Sam manages the organization’s accounting processes. She also supports critical operations functions from staff benefits to charity registrations to keeping Corporate Accountability’s global team connected.":1,"#Since then, Sam has dedicated her career to social justice and serving communities in the Global South, especially women. She partnered with students at Ganesha University in Indonesia to create a business plan for an organization that would provide loans, financial literacy education, and other economic support to women in rural Bali. She also interned at the Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights, curating research to better understand how feminist economies could help us move away from extractive capitalist systems. And before enrolling in graduate school, she ran operations at Razia’s Ray of Hope, an organization that provides accessible and comprehensive education to women and girls in Deh-Subz, Afghanistan.":1,"#She knew that those stories were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the harm that corporations have in the world.":1,"#Sam’s passion for challenging corporate power started in a nutrition class at Simmons University. She learned many examples of corporations seeking profit at the expense of people’s lives and health—from Monsanto attempting to patent Indigenous seed varieties to Nestle aggressively marketing infant formula in the Global South, jeopardizing the health and well-being of children and mothers.":1,"#Not in CR?":1,"#Tens of thousands of people took action on Corporate Accountability's campaigns this year. Learn more about the impact we had together.":1,"#Key findings include:":1,"#Demand elected officials condemn the occupation of Venezuela & our cities":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,"#Pierce Delahunt":1,"#Read more about Pierce Delahunt":1,"#Pierce Delahunt photo of face":1,"#For nearly a decade, we've partnered with Pittsburgh organizers to expose Veolia's role in the city's water crisis, and keep the city's water system in public hands. Photo credit: Pennsylvania United":1,"#You're part of a movement that's challenging the corporations and billionaires undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and threatening our communities. Together, we're in it for the long haul, building toward a world where everyone can thrive — no exceptions.":1,"#Thanks to you, we're ready to meet the challenges ahead.":1,"#As corporations infiltrate our government, steal our essential resources, and seize more and more power, we're not backing down. We're taking our hard-hitting campaigns even further by:":1,"#Our global team is made of people committed to building a world that's centered on the needs of people and the health of our planet — no exceptions. Learn more about our bold, talented staff and board that drive our corporate campaigning forward day in and day out. And get to know our board members, who all bring unique perspectives and experiences in mobilizing people for social change.":1,"#Most of all, it's the responsibility he feels toward people and the planet, and his commitment to live out his values, that keeps him going. \"The important question for me is: When bad stuff happens, will it be because I rolled over and let it? Or will I have done everything I could to stop it?\"":1,"#Pierce's teaching and research keeps him engaged with his community and energized in this difficult political moment. In teaching nonviolent communication to inmates at San Quentin prison and political economy online, he finds that his students are more open than ever to learn about the different ways of relating, as well as the inner workings of power and the economy.":1,"#\"Corporations are the emblem of exploitation, capitalism, and colonialism,\" he says. He's most drawn to Corporate Accountability's campaigning that challenges the privatization of essential resources and utilities, like water. \"Holding our resources as a commons instead of selling them for profit goes a long way in countering oppression and environmental catastrophe,\" he says.":1,"#That led him to accompany Corporate Accountability's team to a McDonald's shareholders' meeting. Pierce described the scene on his blog: executives patting each other on the back for reaping profits from an underpaid workforce, unhealthy food, and harm to animals and land. The event helped solidify his understanding of the modern corporation as an imperialist force that will seek profit at the expense of everything: people's health, lives, and the planet.":1,"#As Pierce got older, his systemic analysis deepened. During the first Trump regime, he met an organizer from Corporate Accountability. He joined the Giving Circle, a group of young adults that met regularly to learn about corporate power, build campaigning skills, and mobilize resources for the organization and the movement.":1,"#In high school, Pierce hated history class. He remembers his eyes glazing over as his teachers recounted one event after another. He realized later that he was getting a curated timeline, not the full story. \"This was on purpose,\" he says, exasperated. \"There is a reason why people in power don't want you to see the origins of the unjust world that you're living in now.\"":1,"#Member, teacher, researcher":1,"#Campaign Director – Dogwood Alliance
Social movement leader & organizer":1,"#Vocal Type":1,"#Bayard font by":1,"#Gabby Gray":1,"#Valerie Johnstone":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 FESAR.":1,"#Fundación Ecuatoriana de Salud Respiratoria (FESAR)":1,"#SE":1,"#Corporate Accountability has always seen our work of stopping life-threatening abuses by corporations as integral to creating the systemic change we need. And to realize this vision, we strive to build as powerful and inclusive a movement as we can.
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":1,"#Berta Cáceres":1,"#MATCH MY GIFT!":1,"#Timeline arrow":1,"#Torquoise timeline indicator":1,"#Second orange timeline indicator":1,"#Green timeline indicator":1,"#Purple timeline indicator":1,"#Orange timeline indicator":1,"#Dick Daynard photo":1,"#Fact one":1,"#Fact four icon":1,"#Activists with the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition and other allies exposed Big Polluters as poisonous snakes infiltrating this year's U.N. climate talks. Photo credits: Bianka Csenki; David Tong, Oil Change International. Protest visuals by The Artivist Network.":1,"#Fact three icon":1,"#Fact two icon":1,"#Fact one icon":1,"#Global Tobacco Treaty section banner":1,"#Thank you for helping to make this possible!":1,"#If fully implemented, THE TREATY could save 200 million lives by 2050.":1,"#Harness the treaty's precedents to rein in more abusive industries, from fossil fuel to plastics corporations":1,"#Monitor and expose industry rebranding and deception":1,"#Support governments in holding Big Tobacco liable for harming our health and the planet":1,"#Challenge the industry's aggressive marketing in the Global South":1,"#Photo credits: David Tong, Oil Change International; Angel Amaya, Corporate Accountability. Protest visuals by The Artivist Network":1,"#Organize to keep Big Tobacco out of policymaking":1,"#we will":1,"#The next 20 years and beyond,":1,"#Dick Daynard
Professor, Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern University School of Law":1,"#As we celebrate this two-decade milestone, we can't forget that this deadly industry keeps profiting at the expense of our health and our lives. It's up to us to support governments around the world in harnessing the power of the treaty to make Big Tobacco pay for its abuses.":1,"#to apply its groundbreaking measures to other deadly industries, from Big Polluters to food and beverage corporations to plastic polluters and beyond.":1,"#Inspired movements":1,"#to encourage governments to sue an abusive industry over its toll to human life and society, which has spurred countries like Brazil to take legal action against Big Tobacco.":1,"#First treaty":1,"#Campaign Highlight: Challenging Big Polluters":1,"#through smoke-free laws, warning labels, and ad bans in over 68 countries, and shifted the blame of the epidemic onto the industry that profits from death, instead of the people that it targets.":1,"#Champions people's health":1,"#in U.N. history covering 90% of the world's population: 40 countries ratified in 2005 → 183 countries ratified today.":1,"#Most widely embraced treaty":1,"#international policy that placed a firewall between corporate interests and public health to halt industry interference in policymaking.":1,"#Established precedent-setting":1,"#The backbone of the movement challenging Big Tobacco":1,"#Five things to know about the global tobacco treaty":1,"#Learn how the treaty is reining in Big Tobacco and saving millions of lives — and see for yourself why we remain committed to organizing for its full implementation around the globe.":1,"#This year, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), also known as the global tobacco treaty. This treaty — the world's first public health and corporate accountability treaty — is one of the most rapidly and widely implemented treaties in U.N. history. And it's just getting started. Its strength, its impact, and its groundbreaking corporate accountability measures were made possible by organizers all over the world, including Corporate Accountability and the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals.":1,"#Woman with flowers and microphone":1,"#20 years, millions of lives saved":1,"#The global tobacco treaty:":1,"#Photo credit: Corporate Accountability":1,"#Spotlight: Global Tobacco Treaty":1,"#(Foreground) Activist Marina Justiniano, organizer and firewoman with the Regional Organization of Chiquitana Indigenous Women, discusses how we can center care as we organize. (Background) Participants from across the Latin American region welcome attendees during the event's opening ceremony. Photo credit: Plataforma Latinoamericana y del Caribe por la Justicia Climática.":1,"#Go to fourth slide":1,"#Go to third slide":1,"#Go to second slide":1,"#Go to first slide":1,"#Next slide":1,"#Previous slide":1,"#Read more about the vote to keep the city's water system in public hands":1,"#Through the Black Collective, we support Black-led organizations across the U.S. that address police violence, education funding, and reparations. This year we granted to organizations challenging police violence in Los Angeles, building Black-led arts and culture ecosystems, and more.":1,"#Powering the movement for Black liberation":1,"#Read more about building power for climate justice in Latin America":1,"#The Fundación Ecuatoriana de Salud Respiratoria (FESAR) has played a major role in strengthening the country's national tobacco law and reining in the deadly tobacco industry. With your support, they organized youth to challenge Big Tobacco's predatory marketing to children, exposed the industry's abuses in policymaking, and more.":1,"#Holding Big Tobacco accountable in Ecuador":1,"#Our partners at Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) are organizing communities to make Big Polluters pay. A big part of that is exposing corporate abuse and shifting the public narrative through storytelling. We helped provide the resources needed to produce \"Tales of Africa's Climate,\" a short film about people living on the front lines of the climate crisis to counter corporate propaganda and create space for real solutions.":1,"#Challenging Big Polluters in Africa through storytelling":1,"#Earlier this year, Pittsburgh residents voted to keep the city's water sytem in public hands (read the full story). We provided funding for the second annual Flint/Pittsburgh solidarity event and educational materials in the final push of the campaign. These gatherings show that when we challenge corporate power together, we can win.":1,"#Securing water justice victories":1,"#Global movements are more important now than ever. To win, we need to make sure all of us have the resources we need. Through the Movement Solidarity Fund, we raise and redistribute financial resources to our partners and leaders on the front lines of corporate abuse. Together, we're helping sustain the global movement challenging corporate abuse and advancing justice. Learn more about what your support made possible this year.":1,"#to challenge corporate abuse":1,"#Powering the global movement":1,"#Spotlight: The Movement Solidarity Fund":1,"#We'll bring this united resistance in full force as we continue organizing throughout Latin America to challenge Big Polluters, reject corporations' false solutions, and advance just climate policy.":1,"#Curved arrow":1,"#Annual Report FY2025 - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Climate Justice In Latin America section banner":1,"#Read more about People power takes on the corporate Trump regime":1,"#No Kings":1,"#Black Collective section banner":1,"#People Power section banner":1,"#Read more about protecting public water and defending our freedoms":1,"#Three water protesters":1,"#Protecting Public Water section banner":1,"#Ari Belathar - Corporate Accountability Executive Director":1,"#Read more of the Executive Director's Letter":1,"#background image with protestor holding sign":1,"#Corporate Accountability organization logo - mobile version":1,"#Corporate Accountability organization logo":1,"#Watch the School to Prison Pipeline documentary":1,"#During a mid-afternoon session of the Climate Justice Assembly, a convening we hosted with our Latin American climate justice allies in Bolivia, an activist recounted her experience with the \"cowboys of carbon markets.\" These men came into her community in El Rancho in San Javier, Chiquitania, an Indigenous territory in Monte Verde, offering exorbitant amounts of money to take over their land for decades.":1,"#Building power for climate justice in Latin America":1,"#Photo credit: Plataforma Latinoamericana y del Caribe por la Justicia Climática.":1,"#Campaign Highlight: Climate Justice In Latin America":1,"#The pace, scale, and ambition of Trump and his corporate cronies may be unprecedented in the U.S., but its infrastructure is built on greed. And greed can and will be overcome by the massive — and growing — movement that is organizing to resist this regime and build the better, just world we all deserve.":1,"#But history — and successful peoples' movements the world over — have shown us that we need to be disciplined and strategic in the midst of authoritarian chaos. That's why, even as we engage in rapid-response action, we're also embarking on a longer-term project: to map the corporate pillars of the Trump regime, identify their vulnerabilities and leverage points, and harness people power to strategically challenge them. This work will ramp up in the year to come.":1,"#And people like you are rising and claiming your power. This year, we joined nationwide coalitions that are mobilizing folks to show up and show visible resistance at large-scale protests, and to train activists on the organizing skills and strategies that we need to stop the corporate-fueled injustices of the Trump regime over the long term. We also launched the People Over Profit (POP) Corps, a group of people committed to challenging the corporations that back authoritarianism and those that stand to benefit the most from this regime's policies. It's all adding up to a growing movement to defend our freedoms. And you can join in.":1,"#The core of our mission is to challenge the driving force of this regime: corporate power. We have a nearly 50-year history of fearlessly — and successfully — taking on some of the most powerful entities in the world in order to put power back into people's hands.":1,"#Slashing social services to pay for billionaires' tax cuts. Handing over the reins of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education to corporate cronies. Dismantling regulations that keep big business in check. The Trump regime isn't just running the U.S. like a corporation; it's a wholesale, reckless corporate takeover unleashed by billionaires against the rest of us.":1,"#People power takes on the corporate Trump regime":1,"#As the current regime ramps up its exploitation of Black and immigrant communities, this work remains critical. Your support allows us to challenge the corporate roots of racism and oppression in the U.S. and beyond.":1,"#We joined millions of people at mobilizations in cities and towns across the U.S. to challenge the corporate-backed rise of authoritarianism. Photo credit: Teehan McGuiness, Corporate Accountability":1,"#Photo credit: Lizzie McQuillan, Corporate Accountability":1,"#Campaign Highlight: People Power":1,"#This is what long-term organizing to challenge corporate power looks like: building strong local networks. Defending our public services together. And winning scalable victories that communities can implement all over the world to protect what's most important to us.":1,"#So when Pittsburgh organizers learned that the water system ownership could change again, leaving the door open to future privatization threats, they jumped into action. They campaigned to win a ballot referendum to prevent the water system from being sold or leased to a private entity. We partnered with Pennsylvania United and Flint Rising to organize the second annual Flint/Pittsburgh day of action, connecting the dots between the two cities' struggles. And we mobilized our members in Pittsburgh to spread the word and vote in the referendum. In the end, more than 78 percent of voters supported the measure — a resounding mandate.":1,"#This win comes nearly a decade after we first worked in coalition with local organizers to stop the threat of water privatization in Pittsburgh. At the time, lead levels in the city's water were on the rise following a disastrous privatization scheme by private water giant Veolia. We helped mobilize city residents, garner outside attention, and connect the dots between Flint's lead crisis, the lead in Pittsburgh's water, and the common denominator: Veolia. The coalition succeeded in stopping a new privatization threat — and exposing Veolia's track record in the process. But we all knew there was more we could do to make this victory permanent.":1,"#In May, Pittsburgh residents voted for a major win: to keep the city's water and sewer system public for generations to come. This is an important victory not only for the people of Pittsburgh, but for democracy as a whole. When we come together to keep an essential resource like water under public control — instead of handing it over to corporations — we're protecting a critical service that strengthens the whole community.":1,"#Protecting public water and defending our freedoms":1,"#Photo credit: Pittsburgh United":1,"#We also directly challenged Wells Fargo for targeting Black and brown communities at its annual shareholders meeting, and exposed the corporation's ties to private prisons and racial policing in front of its top investors.":1,"#Campaign Highlight: Protecting Public Water":1,"#We're challenging the corporations and billionaires that are threatening our communities, livelihoods, and freedoms — including those that fueled Trump's rise to power and stand to benefit from his reckless regime. We won't let them privatize our essential resources and attack our freedoms and futures just to reap even more profit. We refuse. Backed by you, and in partnership with allies around the world, we have the strategy — and the guts — to make an impact in this moment. Learn more about what you're making possible.":1,"#The Many Can Defeat The Money":1,"#These achievements and more are building the people power we collectively need to challenge the global rise of fascism and the corporations driving it. The work is supported by people like you — not by any government, not by corporations. I hope you take inspiration in the progress you see in this report. The many can defeat the money. I've seen it happen before and I know it can happen again.":1,"#You'll see these principles in action in this report. Campaigning for a decade on water is resulting in wins that strengthen local democracy. Our tobacco campaign has been saving lives and securing groundbreaking protections for 20 years. Our climate campaigners in Latin America are leading the way in organizing unified coalitions for climate justice.":1,"#Corporate Accountability has a long history of running long-term corporate campaigns that achieve what seems impossible. We work in deep, broad coalitions to build people power and successfully challenge some of the most dangerous entities in the world. Our campaigns have both immediate wins and lasting impact.":1,"#But you and I know that corporations — even the most dangerous ones — have vulnerabilities and weak points. And we know smart, targeted campaigns that leverage these weaknesses can create paradigm-shifting changes.":1,"#The Black Collective leverages our corporate campaigning power and expertise to support movements for Black liberation and racial justice. Founded and led by Black-identifying staff, the program is centered on issues of police violence, under-resourced education systems in Black communities, and reparations. This year, we launched the first installment of a documentary series exploring the impacts of the school-to-prison pipeline, which is fueled by the chronic underfunding of schools and police violence.":1,"#I'm not saying it will be fast or easy. The Trump regime is the culmination of a decades-long anti-democracy campaign funded by corporations and ultra-rich men driven by greed. They're acting on their vision of a government run as a corporation with an authoritarian CEO at the top.":1,"#So I know it's possible to achieve victories toward a world where we all have clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, healthy food to eat, and communities that care and support everyone — no exceptions. The progress you'll read about here is a testament to the work we're doing to ensure all of this comes before the profit of a wealthy few.":1,"#I'm no stranger to the front lines of the struggle between corporate power and the people. As a student in Mexico, I took part in battling the corporate takeover of our public university. I participated in movements challenging mining corporations and corporations supporting genocide. Over the years, I've seen people join together across race, class, and other differences to fight seemingly unbeatable odds. I have seen us win.":1,"#Annual Report
FY 2025":1,"#Annual Report FY 2025":1,"#Exposing the connections between corporate power and systemic racism":1,"#Bayard font by Vocal Type":1,"#Sign up for Action Updates":1,"#Photo credit: Questin Clay":1,"#Pie chart total support revenue":1,"#Download the full audited financial report →":1},"version":7389}]