News & Events
May /21/2009
May /21/2009
Our Victories
Infant Formula Campaign (1977-1986)
The Infant Formula Campaign and Nestlé Boycott brought about significant reforms in the life-threatening marketing of infant formula in poor countries. Our unprecedented international consumer campaign focused worldwide attention on a corporate abuse that had been kept hidden. Our work contributed to the passage of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in 1981.
Nuclear Weaponmaker's Campaign (1984-1993)
The Nuclear Weaponmakers Campaign and GE Boycott helped push industry leader General Electric out of the nuclear weapons business and exposed the human and environmental costs of the corporation's nuclear weapons production and promotion.
Challenging Big Tobacco Campaign (1994-Present)
In 2003, years of campaigning culminated in the adoption of the world's first corporate accountability treaty -- the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Other Victories
Nuclear Weaponmaker's Campaign: Deadly Deception Wins Academy Award
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment won the Academy Award for Best Documentary: Short Subject in 1992. The film, released by Infact, brought word of the GE Boycott to over 1 billion TV viewers worldwide. A year later, GE bowed to public demand and moved out of the nuclear weapons business.
Corporate Hall of Shame: Waste Management Reduces Influence Peddling
Inducted into the Hall of Shame in 1996, Waste Management significantly reduced its lobbying and campaign contributions.
Corporate Hall of Shame: Columbia/HCA Shamed to Change
In 2000, we celebrated a victory in our three-year campaign challenging hospital giant Columbia/HCA (now HCA) for taking over non-profit and community-owned hospitals, dumping patients without insurance, and using political clout to get away with these abuses. Today the hospital corporation is no longer the influence-peddling threat to public health it was in the 1990s.
Challenging Big Tobacco: RJR Nabisco Break Up
Our boycott targeting RJR Nabisco's food division exposed the truth behind the corporation's family-friendly image, helped bring down advertising icon Joe Camel, and contributed to the breakup of the third-largest tobacco corporation in the world. The separation of Nabisco from R.J. Reynolds (now Reynolds American Tobacco) significantly reduced tobacco industry influence over U.S. and international health policy.
