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CONSUMERISM AND CONSUMER INTEREST

1. Adbusters Media Foundation
1243 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7
Phone: 604-736-9401
FAX: 604-737-6021
Email: adbusters@adbusters.org
http://www.adbusters.org/
Contact: Kalle Lasn, Director

The Media Foundation is a media activist organization. Its supporters are a global mix of media and environmental strategists, teachers and students of media literacy, communications professors, media professionals, ad agency executives, think tanks and average citizens worried about what television is doing to their kids. The Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine - and runs Powershift Advocacy Agency.

2. Center for a New American Dream
6930 Carroll Ave., Suite 900
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Phone: 301-891-3683
FAX: 301-891-3684
Email: newdream@newdream.org
http://www.newdream.org/
Contact: Betsy Taylor, Executive Director

The Center for a New American Dream is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to reducing resource consumption and improving the quality of life in North America. Its mission is to help individuals, communities, and private businesses foster new consumption patterns and sustainable practices which will ensure a healthy planet for future generations.

3. Consumers Union
101 Truman Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703-1057
Phone: 914-378-2000
http://www.consumersunion.org/
Contact: Marc Kaplan, Director of Public Information

Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is a non-profit organization established in 1936 to provide consumers with information and advice on product and food safety, health care, finance and banking, and to initiate and cooperate with individual and group efforts to maintain and enhance the quality of life for consumers.

4. Institute for Local Self-Reliance
1313 5th St. SE, Suite 306
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-379-3815
FAX: 612-379-3920
Email: dmorris@ilsr.org
http://www.ilsr.org/
Contact: David Morris, Vice President

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance advocates community-based institutions and technologies in public and private sectors. David Morris promotes public policies that strengthen communities and local economies. Author of four books, he was named one of the country's 100 leading thinkers by the Utne Reader.

5. New Road Map Foundation
PO Box 15981
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: 206-527-0437
http://www.slnet.com/cip/nrm/nrm.htm

Since 1980, the New Road Map Foundation has taught the nine-step program for financial integrity contained in the best-selling book Your Money Or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin - first as a seminar, later as an audiocassette/ workbook home study course, Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Over one million people have participated in the program.

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