Corporate Accountability International

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Corporate Accountability International (formerly InFact) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1977. Campaign headquarters is in Boston, MA with offices in Oakland, CA, Seattle, WA, and Bogotá, Colombia. They are a multi-campaign organization. Currently their most prominent campaign is Think Outside The Bottle.

Contents 1 Mission Statement 2 History 3 Campaigns 4 Water Campaign 5 Tobacco Campaign 6 Oil Campaign

[edit] Mission Statement

“Today the air we breathe, the water we drink and our very democracy are under increasing threat from corporate abuses. Since our first campaign pressuring Nestlé to stop dangerous marketing of infant formula to children in developing countries, Corporate Accountability International has taken on abusive global corporations one industry at a time.

Now, we are expanding our work to expose and challenge several industries at once. We are building on our successful track record to strengthen democracy by limiting corporate interference in national and international policymaking so that ordinary people around the world can hold corporations accountable for their actions and thereby put an end to irresponsible corporate behavior.” [1]

[edit] History

Corporate Accountability began in 1977, as InFact, with their involvement in the Nestle boycott.

[edit] Campaigns

Since 1977 Corporate Accountability International has been involved with a number of high-profile campaigns waged against major corporations.

[edit] Water Campaign

Recently, Corporate Accountability International’s Think Outside The Bottle Campaign has garnered international notice. The campaign which, “encourages consumers to choose tap over bottled water and support the efforts of local elected officials to do the same at the city, state, and national level,” [2] has been supported by Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, who has also begun his own “Knock Out Bottled Water” website [3], San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, and more [4]. The campaign also played a major role in the July 2007 decision by PepsiCo. to change the label on their Aquafina bottled water to more plainly state it is sourced from public water [5]. The campaign was also featured on NBC Nightly News in October 2007 [6].

[edit] Tobacco Campaign

Corporate Accountability International played an integral part in 2005’s WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the world’s first public health and corporate accountability treaty [7]. They spent the fall of 2005 working alongside other organizations to get a number of African countries to ratify the treaty and also gained notice for their attempts to get the US to ratify [8]7.

[edit] Oil Campaign

Working alongside ExxposeExxon “to inform and educate people about ExxonMobil's efforts to prevent action on global warming, drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and encourage our dependence on oil.” [9]