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	Ethical Consumer URL: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Ethical Consumer homepage Page description: Looking at the ethics of the companies behind the brand names, Ethical Consumer is the essential alternative shopping guide. Online articles, consultancy services, giving you the information companies would rather you didn't see.
	The Consumer Activism Project URL: http://web.whittier.edu/academic/politicalscience/tcap.htm ODP description: T-CAP is dedicated to research and education on consumer activism and to inform contemporary public policy and political debates.
	Ethical Corporation URL: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/ ODP description: Monthly global business publication providing corporate social, environmental, and financial responsibility news, advice, and examples.
	Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights URL: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/ ODP description: A nationally-recognized, California-based, non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization. Deals in insurance reform, healthcare reform, billing errors, and other issues. Page title: The Foundation For Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR)
	Co-op America URL: http://www.coopamerica.org/ ODP description: Contains information on boycott campaigns, sweatshop activism, public service, barter and LETSystems to regenerate local economies in the service of local needs. Page title: Co-op America: Economic Action for a Just Planet Page description: Co-op America is a national nonprofit consumer organization, promoting environmental sustainability, social justice, and economic justice through marketplace strategies including green living, responsible shopping, fair trade, green business, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investing -- for consumers, businesses, workers, investors, and everyone.
	CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering URL: http://www.nocards.org ODP description: Consumer group opposed to supermarket "club cards" and loyalty programs. Lists the card status of supermarkets across the U.S. Page description: Consumer group opposed to supermarket loyalty and frequent shopper cards.
	Socially Responsible Consumer URL: http://www.responsibleconsumer.net/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Socially Responsible Consumer: Home Page Page description: Information for the socially responsible consumer concerned about human rights, animal welfare, and the environment
	Consumer Activism in Great Britain URL: http://www.mori.com/publications/rmw/consumeractivism.pdf ODP description: Study conducted for the National Consumer Council includes survey results concerning questions about consumer activisim in the UK.
	The Dunning Letter URL: http://thedunningletter.blogspot.com/ ODP description: 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. Page title: THE DUNNING LETTER
	Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html ODP description: 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. Page description: Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress 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.
	UCAN - Utility Consumers' Action Network URL: http://www.ucan.org/ ODP description: San Diego California consumer watchdog group advising consumers on energy, utilities and internet issues. Page title: UCAN \| Utility Consumers' Action Network - Consumer Advocates Page description: The Utility Consumers' Action Network, UCAN, is a non-profit consumer organization in San Diego, California. UCAN has been educating, advocating, and enforcing consumer rights for over 24 years.