Consumer Activism

• CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering - Consumer group opposed to supermarket "club cards" and loyalty programs. Lists the card status of supermarkets across the U.S.
• Consumer Watchdog - A nationally-recognized, California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization. Deals in insurance reform, healthcare reform, billing errors, and other issues.
• Ethical Consumer - Tips on ethical buying, consumer reports on a wide range of goods, information on UK and worldwide boycotts. Publishes Ethical Consumer magazine and the Corporate Critic database.
• Ethical Corporation - Monthly global business publication providing corporate social, environmental, and financial responsibility news, advice, and examples.
• Green America - Contains information on boycott campaigns, sweatshop activism, public service, barter and LETSystems to regenerate local economies in the service of local needs.
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 - Online exhibit from the Library of Congress that assembles a variety of source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.
• Socially Responsible Consumer - Information and products for consumers who want their spending and investing to support their values. Emphasizes inteconnections between human rights, animal rights and welfare, and environment.
• The Dunning Letter - Weblog dedicated to protecting consumer privacy in junk mail personal data and promotion of individual's right to control and protect name and private information.
• UCAN - Utility Consumers' Action Network - San Diego California consumer watchdog group advising consumers on energy, utilities and internet issues.