1. Center for Media & Democracy
3318 Gregory Street
Madison, WI 53711
Phone: 608-233-3346
FAX: 608-238-2236
Email: 74250.735@compuserve.com
http://www.prwatch.org/
Contact: John Stauber, Director
The Center for Media & Democracy is a nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices. The Center's publications include a quarterly newsletter, PR Watch, and two books, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry and Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? which documents the PR cover-up of human and animal health risks from mad cow disease.
2. International Buy Nothing Day -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
International Buy Nothing Day is a celebration of simplicity; it's about shop-'til- you-drop lifestyle on a dying planet; it's about getting runaway consumer culture back onto a sustainable path. Buy Nothing Day always falls on the first shopping day after US Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.
3. Nike Campaign - Global Exchange
2071 Mission St. #303
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-255-7296x232
FAX: 415-255-7498
Email: kimberly@globalexchange.org
http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/corporations/nike/index.html
Contact: Kimberly Miyoshi
Leading the second annual International Nike Day of Protest, Global Exchange prompted concerned consumers to organize and change the way corporations and advertising take advantage of Southeast Asian countries and create fashion dependencies. The Nike Campaign provides activists with resources, factual material and a strategic media plan that directly challenges Phil Knight and his corporate megalith. Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world.
4. INFACT
256 Hanover Street
Boston, MA 02113
Phone: 617-742-4583
FAX: 617-367-0191
Email: infact@igc.apc.org
http://www.infact.org
Contact: Kathryn Mulvey, Executive Director
INFACT is a national grassroots watchdog organization whose purpose is to stop life-threatening abuses by transnational corporations and increase their account-ability to people around the world. INFACT is best known for its successful Nestle and GE Boycott Campaigns, and its Academy Award winning documentary Deadly Deception. It is currently organizing the Tobacco Industry Campaign and the Hall of Shame Campaign.
5. Shareholders of Anheuser-Busch
for Advertising Reform
c/o The Marin Institute
24 Belvedere Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 415-456-5692
FAX: 415-456-0491
Email: dianac@marininstitute.org
http://www.marininstitute.org/
Contact: Diana Conti, Director
Shareholders of Anheuser-Busch for Advertising Reform (SABAR) is an organization of Anheuser-Busch shareholders concerned about serious alcohol-related health and safety problems and dedicated to corporate responsibility. SABAR was the sponsor of recent shareholder resolutions urging Anheuser-Busch to study whether advertisements such as the "Budweiser frogs" appeal to underage drinkers.
6. Virginia SLAM!
328 Flatbush Ave., Suite 408
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone: 212-802-7226
FAX: 718-783-7846
Email: Slammusic@aol.com
Contact: Leslie Nuchow, Founder
In response to Phillip Morris' 'Woman Thing Music'- an event which tied a Virginia Slims' CD compilation of female artists with a two-pack cigarette promotion - Virginia SLAM! reacted with a counter-concert. This event brought together independents like Jill Sobule, Susan McKeown, Heather Eatman, Nedra Johnson, Leslie Nuchow and other artists who want to let the world know that they do not want music to be used to encourage young people to smoke.