Contacts and Spokespeople

Topics:
Organizational history, current campaigns

Recent news:

TIME Magazine: McDonald’s responds to health professionals (7/26/11)

Boston Globe Magazine: Doctors' Orders to McDonald's: Stop Marketing Junk Food to Kids (5/18/11)

Daily Times Chronicle: How Modern Day Mad Men Are Making Our Kids Fat and Sick (1/3/11)

Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource (essay) (10/22/10)

Topics:
Social and environmental impacts of water bottling, bottled water marketing, community efforts to protect water rights, cutting public spending on bottled water, public water systems renewal

Recent news:
Chronicle of Philanthropy: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media to Spark Change (2/20/11)

Alternet: House Proposes Budget Cuts for Clean Water as Lawmakers Spend $1 Million on Bottled Water (2/23/11)

Topics:
Current campaigns

Recent news:
AlterNet: McDiabetes: Will McDonald's Ever Stop Peddling Its Killer Junk to Kids? (6/20/11)

Fortune: Strange bedfellows (April 2011)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Tap water satisfies recession (8/22/09)

IPS News: Food, Fuel, and water Crises (8/22/08)

Topics:
The global tobacco treaty, industry interference in tobacco control, human toll of tobacco addiction, industry exploitation of Global South markets

Recent news:

InterPress Service: Corporate profits trumping public health (9/21/11)

The Lancet: Conflicts of interest and the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (9/16/11)

AlterNet: Why a Corporate Power Grab at the UN Threatens Our Most Critical Resource (6/23/11)

CNN Health: Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock (4/15/10)

The New York Times: Gates Foundation stops grant to Canadian research center (4/13/10)

Topics:
Corporate influence over food system, fast food marketing to children, impact of fast food industry on diet related disease, human toll of industry abuse

Recent News:
Chicago Tribune: McDonald’s to stop offering free Happy Meal toys in San Francisco (11/30/11)

MSNBC: Jack in the Box to stop offering toys in kids’ meals (6/21/11)

Topics:
Social and environmental impacts of water bottling, bottled water marketing, community efforts to protect water rights, cutting public spending on bottled water, public water systems renewal

Recent news:
Baltimore Sun: Maryland state offices going off the bottle (9/30/11)

Orlando Sentinel: Bottled water or tap water? Debate still rages on which is better (4/17/11)

Fox News: House Urged to Cut Back After Bottled-Water Tab Nears $1 Million (2/9/11)

The Boston Globe: Activists urge state to use less bottled water (7/28/10)

Topics:
Social and environmental impacts of water bottling, bottled water marketing, community efforts to protect water rights, cutting public spending on bottled water, public water systems renewal, campuses going bottled water free

Recent news:
Boston Globe: Vermont gov votes the tap, bucks bottled water (3/22/11)

Denver Post: My bottled water indignation (5/3/10)

The Boston Phoenix: Yes Men take aim at Coca-Cola (11/4/09)

Topics:
Community efforts to protect water rights, World Bank and water privatization

AlterNet: Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (11/2/10)