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In addition, we mobilize our networks to get involved and make a difference in our communities.":1,"#You may receive 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, Popular Democracy In 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), the sponsors of this letter campaign.":1,"#Ogan_primary-logo-color-circle":1,"#Pdia_logo":1,"#_fe4919_(1)":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, Popular Democracy In 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 199,104 more until our goal of 409,600":1,"#210,496 Letters Sent":1,"#Popular Democracy In Action":1,"#Privacy information":1,"#Privacy banner":1,"#Hide this":1,"#Information on this screen can be visible to the school to help keep you secure and scholarly while you're online. Please reach out to the school for more information.":1,"#todos":1,"#Para frenar la intromisión corporativa que debilita el poder normativo de la salud global, Responsabilidad Corporativa instar a los gobiernos latinoamericanos a:":1,"#Teehan is the recruitment organizer at Corporate Accountability. She recruits and supports the many amazing team members at the organization.":1,"#Teehan McGinness - Corporate Accountability":1,"#At Corporate Accountability, Patti has held various positions including campaign director, major gifts officer, national religious outreach coordinator, press officer, and most recently, executive director. She is committed to organizing more deeply and equitably with communities of color in the U.S. and around the world to challenge corporate power.":1,"#Cody Edgerly":1,"#Onah Ruth Ossai":1,"#Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote “The End of Nature,” the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a co-founder and senior adviser at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.":1,"#Bill McKibben - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote “The End of Nature,” the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a co-founder and senior adviser at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.":1,"#urge a los gobiernos latinoamericanos a:":1,"#Mariana Pinho de ACT Promoção da Saúde.":1,"#Este informe analiza la influencia política de las corporaciones tabacaleras transnacionales en América Latina y el Caribe, con un enfoque ...":1,"#Este relatório analisa a influência política das corporações transnacionais do tabaco na América Latina e no Caribe, com foco nas ...":1,"#A influência política da indústria do tabaco: a erosão do Artigo 5.3 na América Latina e no Caribe":1,"#We’re challenging Palantir, the corporation powering the growing surveillance state. Learn more about our new campaign.":1,"#September 24, 2026":1,"#We need your permission before this content can load.":1,"#Youtube privacy policy":1,"#You can change your choice at any time.":1,"#This sets your consent for Content Personalisation on this website, not only for this content.":1,"#It will receive your IP address and may set cookies.":1,"#This content from Youtube is blocked":1,"#“The industry has expanded its presence in legislative, diplomatic, and international arenas, using economic, commercial, and so-called ‘harm reduction’ arguments to influence public policies. This underscores the importance of strengthening transparency mechanisms, ensuring continuous monitoring, and expanding access to information to expose these strategies and fully implement Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control across all Brazilian government ministries, thereby protecting public health.”":1,"#“What we are seeing in Brazil is not an isolated case, but part of a global strategy by the tobacco industry to gain access to political decision-making spaces, including beyond the health sector,” said":1,"#“What we are seeing in Brazil is not an isolated case, but part of a global strategy by the tobacco industry to gain access to political decision-making spaces, including beyond the health sector,” said Mariana Pinho of ACT Promoção da Saúde. “The industry has expanded its presence in legislative, diplomatic, and international arenas, using economic, commercial, and so-called ‘harm reduction’ arguments to influence public policies. This underscores the importance of strengthening transparency mechanisms, ensuring continuous monitoring, and expanding access to information to expose these strategies and fully implement Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control across all Brazilian government ministries, thereby protecting public health.”":1,"#Drawing on analyses conducted in countries including Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Colombia, and Panama, he warned that conventional cigarettes remain the primary financial engine sustaining industry profits and enabling broader global corporate strategies. At the same time, he raised concerns regarding growing youth uptake of emerging electronic products, including flagship products promoted by Philip Morris International.":1,"#Red-DESC":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,"#Screen_shot_2020-05-26_at_12.42.43_pm":1,"#Square_logo":1,"#Ajp_red_logo":1,"#Pa-logo-black-square":1,"#Logo_kairos_10-13":1,"#Progress-america-logo_(1)":1,"#We_are_instagram_01":1,"#Acre2small":1,"#Opin":1,"#Untitled_(2000_x_2000_px)":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,"#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. 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.":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,"#January 12, 2026":1,"#That’s why we’ve launched the People Over Profit Corps, or POP Corps: a community of people challenging the corporate takeover with fierce, urgent action and joy.":1,"#saying “count me in,” claiming your power, and coming together to take disciplined, strategic action.":1,"#it takes — people like you":1,"#We know what":1,"#. Will you join us? Sign up here and one of our organizers will get in touch with you very soon.":1,"#you’re the key ingredient":1,"#It’s time to POP the corporate bubble and put people first. And":1,"#When she’s not working, you can find Teehan with a pile of yarn spread across her lap, as she works away on her latest knitting project. She recently finished her first Fair Isle Scandinavian sweater.":1,"#As the recruitment organizer, Teehan supports the staff hiring and onboarding processes at Corporate Accountability and coordinates the organization’s internship program. She loves meeting so many skilled organizers and learning how candidates’ interests and experiences connect them to the organization’s mission.":1,"#Teehan served as a grant writer and researcher at Nuestras Raices, a grassroots organization focused on food and agriculture in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She also organized with the Right Care Alliance, which advocated for Covid vaccine equity and accessibility in Massachusetts and volunteered at a kitchen that provided sustainably-sourced meals to the community. Teehan graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in operations and information management and a certificate in community service and natural resources conservation.":1,"#“I realized quickly that real, meaningful change doesn’t happen that way,” she recalls. “Corporate social responsibility initiatives are often rooted in the goal of making corporations look good in order to increase profits, not to change the products or operations that do so much harm.”":1,"#Ever since high school, Teehan knew that she wanted to make the pursuit of climate justice a part of her life and career path. But it took time for her to figure out how to make that happen. Since she did not feel drawn to the science and technology fields, she studied business as an undergraduate, eager to find ways to make change from the inside.":1,"#available in Spanish here":1,"#The full report is":1,"#Mayo 20 de 2026":1,"#Release: New Report Details the Tobacco Industry's Political Influence in Latin America & the Caribbean - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Contact media@stopcorporateabuse.org for more information.":1,"#for more information.":1,"#Contact":1,"#and select the subtitles option for your preferred language.":1,"#View the launch here":1,"#The launch event was organized in collaboration with":1,"#by strengthening the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, ensuring that security and tax collection strategies remain 100% free from corporate funding or influence.":1,"#Protect customs and anti-illicit-trade policies":1,"#by ensuring that ministries of foreign affairs, finance, security, and trade are systematically included in implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC, rather than leaving responsibility solely to health authorities.":1,"#Expand institutional safeguards":1,"#by establishing mandatory public registries documenting all interactions between government officials and the tobacco industry.":1,"#Guarantee full transparency":1,"#emphasized:":1,"#Florencia Leiva from Coalition for America’s Health (CLAS)":1,"#stated that while Mexico was not included in the report, the country nevertheless offers a clear illustration of systematic patterns of industry interference. Despite significant policy advances since 2018—including smoke-free environments, advertising restrictions, and a constitutional prohibition on vaping products—the tobacco industry continues influencing public policy through evolving mechanisms.":1,"#Erick Antonio Ochoa from Salud Justa Mx":1,"#During his presentation,":1,"#underscored the essential role played by civil society organizations in implementation of the WHO FCTC, emphasizing their importance in documenting and exposing how major corporations interfere in public institutions. He explained that while States retain sovereign authority to establish policies based on constitutional frameworks and public interest priorities, the tobacco industry—highly concentrated among five major global corporations—continues attempting to shape both traditional and emerging policy environments to prioritize commercial interests over collective wellbeing.":1,"#Jaime Arcila from Corporate Accountability":1,"#highlighted that, despite industry narratives of transformation, conventional cigarettes continue to overwhelmingly dominate the market in Latin America. He further warned that tobacco companies are attempting to secure control over both traditional cigarette markets and emerging electronic nicotine products. He concluded that the tobacco epidemic is far from over and emphasized the urgent need to continue monitoring, investigating, and exposing industry interference in public health policymaking.":1,"#Tom Gatehouse from Tobacco Control Research Group":1,"#During a report launch event,":1,"#new report by Corporate Accountability":1,"#— Transnational tobacco corporations continue to exert disproportionate influence over public policy across Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a":1,"#Contact [email protected] for more information.":1,"#Report: The Tobacco Industry’s Political Influence: The Erosion of Article 5.3 in Latin America and the Caribbean":1,"#View the launch here and select the subtitles option for your preferred language.":1,"#Protect customs and anti-illicit-trade policies by strengthening the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, ensuring that security and tax collection strategies remain 100% free from corporate funding or influence.":1,"#Expand institutional safeguards by ensuring that ministries of foreign affairs, finance, security, and trade are systematically included in implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC, rather than leaving responsibility solely to health authorities.":1,"#Guarantee full transparency by establishing mandatory public registries documenting all interactions between government officials and the tobacco industry.":1,"#To curb corporate interference that undermines the regulatory authority of global health governance, Corporate Accountability urges Latin American governments to:":1,"#“This report, developed with contributions from actors across the region, reaffirms the critical role of organized civil society. Monitoring and exposing industry interference in public policy is a cornerstone of protecting public health. Today we learned from the experience of tobacco control, but the lessons do not end there. We must continue strengthening and safeguarding public health policies and expand this monitoring to all industries that place commercial interests above the health of our communities.”":1,"#Florencia Leiva from Coalition for America’s Health (CLAS) emphasized:":1,"#He also expressed urgent concern regarding Mexico’s unexpected opening for commercialization of nicotine pouches without adequate consultation with the public health sector, noting that in most countries across the region these products remain largely outside robust regulatory frameworks governing nicotine limits and restrictions comparable to those applied to conventional tobacco products.":1,"#He highlighted that companies such as Philip Morris and British American Tobacco are increasingly relying on heated and electronic products for global revenue growth. While Mexican policies reduced sales of these products by nearly five percent, the industry appears to compensate by expanding into jurisdictions with weaker regulatory environments, including countries such as Argentina.":1,"#During his presentation, Erick Antonio Ochoa from Salud Justa Mx stated that while Mexico was not included in the report, the country nevertheless offers a clear illustration of systematic patterns of industry interference. Despite significant policy advances since 2018—including smoke-free environments, advertising restrictions, and a constitutional prohibition on vaping products—the tobacco industry continues influencing public policy through evolving mechanisms.":1,"#Jaime Arcila from Corporate Accountability underscored the essential role played by civil society organizations in implementation of the WHO FCTC, emphasizing their importance in documenting and exposing how major corporations interfere in public institutions. He explained that while States retain sovereign authority to establish policies based on constitutional frameworks and public interest priorities, the tobacco industry—highly concentrated among five major global corporations—continues attempting to shape both traditional and emerging policy environments to prioritize commercial interests over collective wellbeing.":1,"#Among the report’s principal findings, the tobacco industry’s most prominent strategies include: co-opting security and law-enforcement agendas; economic pressure and lobbying for novel nicotine products; reputation laundering through “innovation” and corporate social responsibility initiatives; pro-tobacco diplomacy; and conflicts of interest within subnational governments.":1,"#During a report launch event, Tom Gatehouse from Tobacco Control Research Group highlighted that, despite industry narratives of transformation, conventional cigarettes continue to overwhelmingly dominate the market in Latin America. He further warned that tobacco companies are attempting to secure control over both traditional cigarette markets and emerging electronic nicotine products. He concluded that the tobacco epidemic is far from over and emphasized the urgent need to continue monitoring, investigating, and exposing industry interference in public health policymaking.":1,"#The analysis, covering the period 2019–2025 across eight countries in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama), evaluates implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), which legally obliges governments to protect public health policies from the commercial and vested interests of the tobacco industry. Findings point to a systematic erosion of this legal obligation.":1,"#Through agreements with executive branches, diplomatic missions, and customs and law enforcement agencies, the industry seeks to legitimize itself as a “governance partner” while expanding markets for new nicotine products.":1,"#The research reveals an alarming pattern of corporate interference extending far beyond ministries of health and into agencies related to security, innovation, and anti-smuggling efforts.":1,"#May 20, 2026 — Transnational tobacco corporations continue to exert disproportionate influence over public policy across Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new report by Corporate Accountability.":1,"#This report analyzes the political influence of transnational tobacco corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on the strategies deployed by the tobacco industry to access and shape public institutions. Covering eight countries — Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama — the report draws on credible ...":1,"#The Tobacco Industry's Political Influence: The Erosion of Article 5.3 FCTC in Latin America and the Caribbean - Corporate Accountability":1,"#This report analyzes the political influence of transnational tobacco corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on the strategies deployed by the tobacco industry to access and shape public institutions. Covering eight countries — Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama — the report draws on credible public sources, including official communications, media coverage, civil society reports, and institutional social media content produced between 2019 and 2025.":1,"#The WHO CMCT Knowledge Hub for Article 5.3":1,"#So glad you asked. The three pillars of the POP Corps are challenging corporate capture in the U.S., acting in international solidarity, and mobilizing your networks.
The POP Corps meets from time to time for organizing meetings on Zoom to build community, get inspired, and take action together. In addition, we mobilize our networks to get involved and make a difference in our communities.
We also have opportunities for learning about the issues we face more deeply, as well as trainings on organizing skills that you can put to use right away.
And we keep in touch via an online channel for POP Corps members so we can stay connected, ensure you’re the first to know about urgent actions, and share other opportunities.":1,"#That’s why we’ve launched the People Over Profit Corps, or POP Corps: a community of people challenging the corporate takeover with fierce, urgent action and joy.
It’s time to POP the corporate bubble and put people first. And you’re the key ingredient. Will you join us? Sign up here and one of our organizers will get in touch with you very soon.":1,"#Home Phone *":1,"#Accept":1,"#Global water corporations like Nestlé and Veolia are intensifying their efforts to put the public’s water in private hands, deepening a world water crisis where one in four people don’t have enough clean water to drink. Corporate Accountability launched a campaign to ensure a world that upholds the human right to water and where human need is put before corporate greed. Since 2006, our water campaign has moved millions of people, dozens of cities, and hundreds of national parks to move beyond bottled water and reinvest in the tap. We have helped compel the World Bank to divest from one of the world’s largest water corporations, and we have protected public water systems by helping prevent their privatization from Lagos, Nigeria a St. Louis, Missouri. And at the U.N., we are advancing a treaty that could protect the human right to water from corporate abuse. More on the water campaign.":1,"#The tobacco industry uses the same marketing strategies throughout the region with the aim of selling their products, especially cigarettes, which kills more than half of its consumers. To learn more about this, you can consult the analysis contained in the Regional Tobacco Industry Interference Index (2023), a document created by Corporate Accountability and the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC), which collects information provided by civil society organizations free of conflict of interests from 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on interference by the tobacco industry.":1,"#e":1,"#The WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub for Article 5.3":1,"#Jaime Arcila de Corporate Accountability":1,"#“Governments can and must halt tobacco industry interference. The global tobacco treaty is not just a document countries can sign and put in a drawer. It’s a roadmap for saving lives, which starts with stopping the tobacco industry from manipulating people and policies. Countries have the map, they just need to follow it,” said Laura Salgado, head of campaigns and partnerships at GGTC.":1,"#This report (the third in a series), shows a worsening trend of the regional situation, denoting an increase in the influence of these powerful corporations in the governments, which hinders the efforts that have been aimed at reducing tobacco consumption and holding the tobacco industry legally responsible for the damages caused. All the countries analyzed show some degree of interference, and the analysis highlights Big Tobacco’s lobbying actions, financing of scientific studies, contributions to political campaigns, recruitment of senior government officials, and promotion of “corporate or business social responsibility” initiatives such as cigarette butt cleaning campaigns.":1,"#Daniel Dorado, tobacco campaign director at Corporate Accountability, said, “This compelling statement from such a large number of Latin American and Caribbean communities underscores the importance of people standing together to resist the sinister marketing, political, and public health strategies Big Tobacco seeks to employ to increase profits while knowingly risking the health and lives of many, and especially of future generations. We will not be silent or allow tobacco corporations to interfere in our right to public health policy making free of corporate interference for the health of our countries, nor will we allow them to addict future generations to products that kill.”":1,"#In the video, representatives of organizations from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela show how the industry has interfered to stop public policies to control or regulate tobacco marketing in these countries and their strategies to attract children and adolescents to smoking or using tobacco.":1,"#Latin America and the Caribbean (July 23, 2024) – Today, representatives of organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean released a video in which they denounce the interference of the tobacco industry in their countries and ask their governments to protect children and youth from this industry.":1,"#The tobacco industry uses the same marketing strategies throughout the region with the aim of selling a product like cigarettes that kills more than half of its consumers. This analysis can be consulted in the Regional Tobacco Industry Interference Index.":1,"#How Big Tobacco targets Latin America & the Caribbean":1,"#Representatives of organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean released a video in which they denounce the interference of the tobacco industry.":1,"#Press Release: Latin American & Caribbean organizations denounce tobacco industry interference in their countries - Corporate Accountability":1,"#For more information or to speak to a regional Interference Index spokesperson, contact media@corporateaccountability.org":1,"#Not in CL?":1,"#From confronting Big Polluters at the U.N. climate talks to loosening Big Tobacco's grip over global health policy, we're taking on corporate monsters together.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 1, 2026":1,"#It’s critical to have public officials in government who will truly work for the people. But if politicians who are ...":1,"#Field Notes for Transformation: Spring 2026":1,"#May 4, 2026":1,"#This report analyzes the political influence of transnational tobacco corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on ...":1,"#May 19, 2026":1,"#The tobacco industry is making inroads through government trade and economic agencies, skirting the more wary health ministries.":1,"#May 20, 2026":1,"#Release: New Report Details the Tobacco Industry’s Political Influence in Latin America & the Caribbean":1,"#The Tobacco Industry’s Political Influence: The Erosion of Article 5.3 FCTC in Latin America and the Caribbean":1,"#Geneva Global Health Hub":1,"#Vital Strategies":1,"#So glad you asked. The three pillars of the POP Corps are challenging corporate capture in the U.S., acting in international solidarity, and mobilizing your networks.":1,"#Portuguese":1,"#Executive Summary: Philip Morris International's tobacco promotion strategies in Colombia - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Last Name *":1,"#First Name *":1,"#In the end, the campaign resulted in the first ever United Nations Code of Marketing, setting standards for the whole industry.":1,"#Olympics":1,"#. Today, we are partnering with allies around the world to make Big Tobacco pay for its harms and set precedents for reining in other deadly industries.":1,"#And we established ourselves as a small-and-mighty campaign organization that was unafraid to challenge abusive corporations. We developed guiding strategies, a toolbox full of tactics, and a respectful approach to partnering with allies in the Global South that would enable us take on some of the most powerful entities in the world.":1,"#. More on our":1,"#More on the water campaign":1,"#More on the infant formula campaign.":1,"#keep McDonald’s out of schools":1,"#More on the nuclear weaponmakers campaign.":1,"#, and we have protected public water systems by helping prevent their privatization from":1,"#Oscar-winning documentary":1,"#. And at the U.N., we are advancing a treaty that could protect the human right to water from corporate abuse.":1,"#In 1994, CEOs of seven U.S. tobacco corporations stood before Congress and lied to the U.S. public, saying they didn’t know nicotine was addictive. Meanwhile, millions of people were dying from tobacco-related diseases. Our bold campaign has helped change the aggressive marketing practices and reduced the influence of the world’s deadliest industry. It has contributed greatly to the passage and implementation of the":1,"#After the Nestlé boycott, we turned our attention to a set of corporations that were threatening the entire planet: the nuclear weapons industry. We successfully compelled industry leader General Electric to completely move out of the business of producing and promoting nuclear weapons. The campaign employed a range of tactics including producing an":1,"#Global water corporations like Nestlé and Veolia are intensifying their efforts to put the public’s water in private hands, deepening a world water crisis where one in four people don’t have enough clean water to drink. Corporate Accountability launched a campaign to ensure a world that upholds the human right to water and where human need is put before corporate greed. Since 2006, our water campaign has moved millions of people, dozens of cities, and hundreds of national parks to move beyond bottled water and reinvest in the tap. We have helped compel the":1,"#hospitals":1,"#world’s first public health and corporate accountability treaty":1,"#food campaign":1,"#to sever ties with McDonald’s, and partnered with parents and educators to":1,"#In the first decade of the 21st century, we faced a broken food system that was ravaging the environment, causing one in seven people to go hungry, and causing nearly twice that many to suffer from diet-related diseases. We decided it was time to demand change from the handful of global corporations that have fundamentally reshaped the way we grow, eat, and think about our food. And we focused on the rotten core of this broken system: McDonald’s, the largest and most profitable fast food corporation. Since the launch of the campaign, we’ve fundamentally shifted the landscape in which McDonald’s does business. We’ve compelled McDonald’s to conduct an expensive and unsuccessful overhaul of its image, moved institutions from":1,"#More on our tobacco campaign":1,"#Learn more about our approach.":1,"#World Bank to divest from one of the world’s largest water corporations":1,"#to the":1,"#What does it mean to join the POP Corps?":1,"#Yes! I want to join the People Over Profit Corps (POP Corps)":1,"#We know what it takes — people like you saying “count me in,” claiming your power, and coming together to take disciplined, strategic action.":1,"#But the Corporate Accountability community has a track record of notching big victories for people over corporations no matter who’s in the White House — including the last time Trump and his billionaires were in power.":1,"#The dangerous, polluting corporations and the billionaires behind them that propelled Trump’s return to power want us to believe that that world is impossible.":1,"#We believe in a world where everyone, regardless of what they look like or the money in their pockets, has access to clean air and clean water and the ability to thrive. We know you believe in that, too. The dangerous, polluting corporations and the billionaires behind them that propelled Trump’s return to power want ...":1,"#Join the People Over Profit Corps! - Corporate Accountability":1,"#We believe in a world where everyone, regardless of what they look like or the money in their pockets, has access to clean air and clean water and the ability to thrive. We know you believe in that, too.":1,"#By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times. The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday ...":1,"#The New York Times: How the sugar industry shifted blame to fat - Corporate Accountability":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Cholesterol.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Carbohydrates.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Coronary heart disease.":1,"#The editorial.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Dental cavities.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Obesity.":1,"#Times article.":1,"#The article.":1,"#JAMA article.":1,"#In-depth reference and news articles about Fat.":1,"#“By today’s standards, they behaved very badly,” he said.":1,"#After the review was published, the debate about sugar and heart disease died down, while low-fat diets gained the endorsement of many health authorities, Dr. Glantz said.":1,"#“Let me assure you this is quite what we had in mind, and we look forward to its appearance in print,” Mr. Hickson wrote.":1,"#As they worked on their review, the Harvard researchers shared and discussed early drafts with Mr. Hickson, who responded that he was pleased with what they were writing. The Harvard scientists had dismissed the data on sugar as weak and given far more credence to the data implicating saturated fat.":1,"#Harvard’s Dr. Hegsted reassured the sugar executives. “We are well aware of your particular interest,” he wrote, “and will cover this as well as we can.”":1,"#In 1965, Mr. Hickson enlisted the Harvard researchers to write a review that would debunk the anti-sugar studies. He paid them a total of $6,500, the equivalent of $49,000 today. Mr. Hickson selected the papers for them to review and made it clear he wanted the result to favor sugar.":1,"#Mr. Hickson proposed countering the alarming findings on sugar with industry-funded research. “Then we can publish the data and refute our detractors,” he wrote.":1,"#At the time, studies had begun pointing to a relationship between high-sugar diets and the country’s high rates of heart disease. At the same time, other scientists, including the prominent Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys, were investigating a competing theory that it was saturated fat and dietary cholesterol that posed the biggest risk for heart disease.":1,"#The documents show that in 1964, John Hickson, a top sugar industry executive, discussed a plan with others in the industry to shift public opinion “through our research and information and legislative programs.”":1,"#The JAMA Internal Medicine paper relied on thousands of pages of correspondence and other documents that Cristin E. Kearns, a postdoctoral fellow at U.C.S.F., discovered in archives at Harvard, the University of Illinois and other libraries.":1,"#Dr. Willett said the researchers had limited data to assess the relative risks of sugar and fat. “Given the data that we have today, we have shown the refined carbohydrates and especially sugar-sweetened beverages are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but that the type of dietary fat is also very important,” he said.":1,"#Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, said that academic conflict-of-interest rules had changed significantly since the 1960s, but that the industry papers were a reminder of “why research should be supported by public funding rather than depending on industry funding.”":1,"#“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this blatant.”":1},"version":8328}]