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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,"#Communications Director":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,"#Thanks to a generous group of donors, all gifts made from now until midnight on December 31 will be TRIPLED, up to $100,000.":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el proyecto Pacajai REDD+, ubicado en las afueras de Belém, brasil. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#¿por qué se sigue confiando en un mecanismo tan problemático y fundamentalmente defectuoso como el MVC 2.0 para que contribuya de manera significativa, urgente y permanente a la reducción de las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero?":1,"#, aumentando la probabilidad de un fracaso global de la acción climática. Si bien puede haber avances derivados de las reformas al MVC, hasta ahora parecen ser limitados en alcance y potencial. Esto plantea una pregunta crítica:":1,"#Esta investigación sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, el":1,"#. Estos créditos fueron emitidos por 43 proyectos problemáticos, que por sí solos representan casi una cuarta parte de todos los créditos retirados en el MVC en 2024.":1,"#De los 47 proyectos incluidos en este análisis (todos entre los 100 proyectos más grandes a nivel global en 2024), el":1,"#. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#, ubicado en las afueras de":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el":1,"#, revela que en 2024 el Mercado Voluntario de Carbono (MVC) parecía estar saturado con un gran volumen de proyectos y compensaciones que no podían considerarse fiables para cumplir con las reducciones de emisiones prometidas. A este tipo de proyectos y compensaciones nos referimos como “problemáticos”.":1,"#En contraste a este escenario, el nuevo informe":1,"#– La acción climática no debe fracasar. Debe existir una certeza absoluta de que las soluciones propuestas para resolver la crisis global más urgente funcionarán a la escala y en el plazo necesarios. Si fracasamos, las consecuencias serán millones y millones de vidas perdidas y decenas de billones de dólares en pérdidas cada año.":1,"#Explore the Black Collective’s framework!":1,"#Zikora Ibeh, board member, wears a blue and orange top with intricate flower prints and gold hoop earrings.":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 FESAR.":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,"#De los 47 proyectos incluidos en este análisis (todos entre los 100 proyectos más grandes a nivel global en 2024), el 80 % de los créditos retirados fueron problemáticos. Estos créditos fueron emitidos por 43 proyectos problemáticos, que por sí solos representan casi una cuarta parte de todos los créditos retirados en el MVC en 2024.":1,"#Algunos de los proyectos con mayor número de fallas fundamentales incluyen el proyecto Pacajai REDD+, ubicado en las afueras de Belém, Brasil. Este proyecto fue el séptimo más grande en 2024 por número de créditos retirados.":1,"#Nuevo reporte propone que los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono estarían retrasando la acción climática en lugar de impulsarla - Corporate Accountability":1,"#En contraste a este escenario, el nuevo informe “¿Diseñado para fallar? Los mayores proyectos de compensación de carbono del mundo probablemente no entreguen las reducciones de emisiones prometidas a pesar de las reformas en curso”, revela que en 2024 el Mercado Voluntario de Carbono (MVC) parecía estar saturado con un gran volumen de proyectos y compensaciones que no podían considerarse fiables para cumplir con las reducciones de emisiones prometidas. A este tipo de proyectos y compensaciones nos referimos como “problemáticos”.":1,"#Fondo Bosques Tropicales para Siempre (Tropical Forests Forever Fund, TFFF)":1,"#Para entrevistas o información adicional, contactar a:
Adriana Ergueta
Responsable de Comunicaciones
América Latina y el Caribe
Corporate Accountability
[email protected]":1,"#Descarga el reporte completo en español":1,"#Esta investigación sugiere que, a pesar de las reformas en curso, el MVC 2.0 continúa fracasando en gran medida, aumentando la probabilidad de un fracaso global de la acción climática. Si bien puede haber avances derivados de las reformas al MVC, hasta ahora parecen ser limitados en alcance y potencial. Esto plantea una pregunta crítica: ¿por qué se sigue confiando en un mecanismo tan problemático y fundamentalmente defectuoso como el MVC 2.0 para que contribuya de manera significativa, urgente y permanente a la reducción de las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero?":1,"#América Latina y el Caribe, noviembre de 2025.– La acción climática no debe fracasar. Debe existir una certeza absoluta de que las soluciones propuestas para resolver la crisis global más urgente funcionarán a la escala y en el plazo necesarios. Si fracasamos, las consecuencias serán millones y millones de vidas perdidas y decenas de billones de dólares en pérdidas cada año.":1,"#Nuevo reporte propone que los Mercados Voluntarios de Carbono estarían retrasando la acción climática en lugar de impulsarla":1,"#November 4, 2025":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,"#Lagos":1,"#Providence":1,"#Baltimore":1,"#DANIEL DORADO:":1,"#DD:":1,"#RRJ:":1,"#Help us reach our $100,000 matching challenge goal before the December 31 deadline!":1,"#When you give right now, your gift will help build a future where democracy is protected, human rights are upheld, and the planet is safeguarded for generations to come.":1,"#Thanks to a generous group of donors, all gifts made from now until midnight on December 31 will be MATCHED dollar for dollar, up to $100,000.":1,"#Read the executive summary.":1,"#In November 2017, during one of the most unprecedented periods of climate-related extreme weather events and humanitarian crises, governments will once again gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). High on government’s list will be to discuss the procedures that will guide the implementation of the Paris Agreement. If the world is to avoid the worst of the climate crisis and keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and well below 2 degrees, Parties must agree to real, just, and sustainable solutions, and reject the false solutions peddled by the world’s dirtiest polluters and their proxies (including obstructionist governments and industry trade groups).":1,"#Read the report from Corporate Accountability and allies on the Global North's interference at the U.N. climate negotiations.":1,"#By supporting the Movement Solidarity Fund, you are powering a global movement toward a world rooted in cooperation, care, and the sacredness of all life.":1,"#Marcia Whitehead - Corporate Accountability":1,"#“This is relationship-based work,” says Marcia. “And I am proud to lead a team of people who believe in the importance of being a politically independent and member -powered organization. Every day, we have the privilege to partner with our members to rein in corporate power and influence.”":1,"#Pronouns: She/her/hers “This is relationship-based work,” says Marcia. “And I am proud to lead a team of people who believe in the importance of being a politically independent and member -powered organization. Every day, we have the privilege to partner with our members to rein in corporate power and influence.” In leading the development team, ...":1,"#Marcia has always believed in public policy as a way to create positive change in the world. After all, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in American government and public policy. But after working for a few years in electoral politics, it became even clearer to her that the deep and entrenched influence of corporations in policymaking and elections was preventing the kind of change she wanted to see. That’s why she was thrilled to find Corporate Accountability in 2009, when she started as the membership manager. And why she is happy to have been working for the better part of a decade to challenge out-of-control corporate power directly.":1,"#She also plays a role in building the Corporate Accountability team, which for this two-sport college athlete is a major highlight: “Hardly anything is as fun as building and working on a team that is stronger than the sum of its parts.”":1,"#In leading the development team, Marcia works with staff across the organization, members, and philanthropic partners across the country. She ensures Corporate Accountability has both the financial resources and the people power we need to both wage long-term strategic campaigns as well as respond effectively and rapidly to new challenges posed by corporate influence and power.":1,"#A group of activists gather for a strategy session":1,"#Direct corporate campaigning is critical in this moment to challenge the Trump regime. Find out how challenging corporate power is necessary to bring about change.":1,"#Field notes for transformation: Summer 2025":1,"#Learn more about the impact of your ongoing support in the latest issue of Corporate Accountability's spotlight newsletter.":1,"#Spotlight newsletter: Issue 2, 2025":1,"#August 12, 2025":1,"#By fuga de taylor":1,"#La":1,"#The Movement Solidarity Fund - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Polluting Paris: How Big Polluters are undermining global climate policy - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Statement: 2024 Wells Fargo annual shareholders’ meeting":1,"#April 30, 2024":1,"#By email:":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.":1,"#Contact us - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Toll Free: +1 800-688-8797":1,"#By Telephone:":1,"#Office: +1 617-695-2525":1,"#By Fax:":1,"#By Mail:":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 10 Milk Street Suite 610 Boston, MA ...":1,"#Suite 610":1,"#10 Milk Street":1,"#about the life and work of Cesar Chavez last year on this day, the anniversary of his birth. Chávez believed in the unstoppable force of people united in a shared vision for a better world. We mark the day again on what would have been his 91st birthday and carry his spirit with us.":1,"#“Well, first you talk to one person, then you talk to another person, then you talk to another person.”":1,"#possible for farm workers to unionize":1,"#Before Chávez founded the":1,"#, in whose footsteps we follow. The organizing we do at Corporate Accountability and our determination to achieve what is necessary — not just what seems possible — owes much to the pioneering work of Chávez. Chávez would have been 90 years old today.":1,"#César Chávez":1,"#“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”":1,"#Mario":1,"#Celebrating labor organizer César Chávez: Talk to one person, then another, and another":1,"#March 31, 2018":1,"#(UFW) union with Dolores Huerta and other leaders, hardly anyone believed it was":1,"#This mural of Chávez was created by Octavio Ocampo. Photo credit:":1,"#Celebrating labor organizer César Chávez: Talk to one person, then another, and another - Corporate Accountability":1,"#post":1,"#Today, you can remember Chávez by talking about your vision and the action you are taking to create a better world with one person in your life. And then another. And another.":1,"#That tried-and-true method of organizing runs through all of our campaigns — from protecting climate policy from fossil fuel industry interference to upholding the human right to water. And together with supporters like you, we are continuing Chávez’s work for a just food system: One that nourishes us, rather than making us sick, and one that treats workers fairly, rather than exploiting them.":1,"#We published this":1,"#Today we celebrate the life of the great labor organizer,":1,"#Here at Corporate Accountability, we often return to a famous story about Chávez, retold by environmental justice pioneer Lois Gibbs: When young organizers asked Chávez, “How do you organize?” Chávez replied,":1,"#Indeed, the UFW went on to organize a nationwide boycott of table grapes that compelled the major growers to recognize the union, raise wages, contribute to workers’ welfare plan, and give workers a role in regulating pesticide use.":1,"#via Flickr":1,"#. And without a union, Chávez and other Mexican-American farm workers in California faced extreme exploitation: Many were paid so little that they had to live in tents, cars, or trucks without electricity or running water. But Chávez had a different vision. He knew that if he talked with enough farm workers and convinced them to come together to demand a better working conditions, they could do what seemed impossible.":1,"#César Chávez, leader in the labor and civil rights movement, would have been 91 today. We carry with us his tried-and-true method of organizing.":1,"#United Farm Workers":1,"#WRITE NOW!":1,"#Urge your mayor to
take action for climate & racial justice.":1,"#This documentary by the Black Collective exposes the deep institutionalized racism within the school-to-prison pipeline and its devastating impact on youth of color, especially Black youth. It highlights how students are disproportionately funneled from classrooms into the criminal justice system and explores the role of the prison industrial complex. Together, we can raise awareness and fight for reform in education and juvenile justice.":1,"#The powerful truth behind the school-to-prison pipeline":1,"#By keltie vance":1,"#Kofi Bulluck":1,"#Community gatherings for training and public education on corporate abuse.":1,"#Shareholder meeting advocacy.":1,"#In addition to annual grants to our close partners, we support organizations that we campaign with whose values we share through one-time grants. Through this funding, we’ve supported the following activities:":1,"#The Movement Solidarity Fund directly supports our campaign partners, many of whom are organizing on the frontlines of corporate abuse.":1,"#Founded in 2001, IBW21 is an organization committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and around the world to achieve cultural, social, economic, and political equality. The organization works to create greater unity among people of African descent to acquire and maintain power. Founder and president Dr. Ron Daniels partners with us to foster solidarity between Black communities in the U.S. and Africa that are targeted and impacted by the private water industry. Our Black Collective team is grateful to partner with IBW21, driven by our shared commitment to uplifting the experiences of Black communities and supporting Black-led organizations. Learn more about IBW21.":1,"#From scarcity to abundance: Resetting the values of philanthropy through shared resources":1,"#Donate to the Movement Solidarity Fund and contact us to learn more about how you can get involved.":1,"#The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ)":1,"#Year after year and across industries, corporations leverage the same tactics, while exploiting Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color to hold on to their power. Challenging these forces will require us to work in partnership with each other across organizations, generations, and borders.":1,"#Media work to shift the public climate around corporate abuse, including press conferences, journalist training, and research.":1,"#Corporate Accountability first met members of DCJ when we launched our climate campaign in 2014. We have since partnered closely with this movement coalition to advance climate justice, including Big Polluter accountability and liability at the climate treaty meetings, where the fossil fuel industry exerts its toxic influence. As a coalition, DCJ brings the vision, expertise, and the people power of hundreds of organizations, with the majority based in the Global South, to strengthen the fight for climate justice. The funds we’ve raised and redistributed to the coalition have supported DCJ’s operational cost, helped expand its campaign activities, and led to its ability to hire staff dedicated to campaign coordination. It has also helped DCJ members to show up in force to international policy spaces and ensured that the peoples’ collective voices, especially those most affected by the climate crisis, are heard loud and clear. Learn more about DCJ.":1,"#Below are our core campaign partners, who we’ve been in the movement with for years and, in some cases, decades. With your generous support, we continue to make annual grants to and organize closely with them to challenge corporate power in the U.S. and around the world.":1,"#We live in a world that prioritizes individual growth over the collective good. This belief has been carefully constructed and fueled by corporations–and the governments and institutions that do their bidding–in order to pit us against each other and distract us from their abuses so they can hold onto their profits—at the expense of our health and the planet.":1,"#As the city of Flint, Michigan started to grapple with the fallout from the ongoing water crisis, residents came together to distribute water, testing kits, and information packets to their neighbors. They also translated communications from the city about the state of Flint’s water into Spanish when the city failed to do so. The group grew into a coalition of grassroots and community organizers, working together to ensure that Flint residents led the process for repairing the city’s water system and the harm done to them. We have been lucky to partner with this group for years, as we organize for accountability from the government decision-makers and corporate actors who took part in creating and exacerbating the crisis. Learn more about Flint Rising.":1,"#We reflected on these power dynamics and Corporate Accountability’s positional advantage within the larger ecosystem, and we knew we had to create a concrete pathway to counter these imbalances. We see the Movement Solidarity Fund as a channel of accountability between Corporate Accountability and our peers in social movements confronting the worst forms of corporate abuse, extraction, and exploitation. And by ensuring our allies and partners have what they need to challenge some of the largest corporations on the planet and advance justice, we’re helping to build and sustain people power.":1,"#Since Corporate Accountability’s inception, we’ve organized closely with allies from across the globe that share our vision for a more vibrant and peaceful world. The Movement Solidarity Fund is a vital strategy to win our campaigns as it makes the joint work that we do with front-line organizations more possible.":1,"#Movement Solidarity Fund - Corporate Accountability":1,"#Two women, stand in front of a group of activists and lead a protest chant. They raise their fists in the air, channeling their energy and passion for climate justice.":1,"#This powerhouse team based in Lagos, Nigeria is advancing human rights and challenging corporate abuse on the African continent and beyond. Together, we’ve shifted the narrative to ensure people see the risks and dangers of water privatization and helped pressure the World Bank to divest from Veolia, one of the most abusive corporate actors. We’ve also brought together organizations and water justice activists across the continent to join the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC). With members across eight countries in Africa, OWORAC carries out actions on the local and regional level to oppose water privatization and demand public solutions. But CAPPA isn’t only campaigning to stop water privatization: It also plays a key role within Africa as part of the movement to Make Big Polluters Pay for the damage they cause and advancing democracy in Nigeria and beyond, and much more. Learn more about CAPPA.":1,"#That is why we have created the Movement Solidarity Fund: a program centered on abundance, that raises and redistributes financial resources to our collaborators and leaders on the front lines of corporate abuse. Thanks to the gifts of our members and funders, we are adding momentum to the movement and taking critical steps forward toward justice—from challenging water privatization to making Big Polluters pay.":1,"#Give now and power the movement challenging corporate abuse":1,"#Website development for grassroots organizations.":1,"#Movement artwork to build visibility for real, just solutions to the climate crisis.":1,"#Social media campaigns calling out and exposing corporate abuse.":1,"#Allies Aderonke Ige (left) of Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and Leona Morgan (right) of Diné No Nukes rally the crowd at the climate talks in Egypt and demand leaders reject false solutions. Photo credit: Keltie Vance, Corporate Accountability":1},"version":7148}]