Whether it was pushing for health care reform, reigning in Wall Street or keeping dangerous prescription pills off the market, Public Citizen’s researchers, analysts and lobbyists have been on the front lines, standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable.
We don’t have deep corporate pockets backing us like our opponents do (Public Citizen [...]

Need an explanation of cap and trade that even a climate change denier could understand? Check out this short video hosted by Annie Leonard whose earlier film Story of Stuff took a hard look at our culture of excessive consumerism. She continues the theme with a series of new videos that will look at different [...]

Ten years after protesters shut down the WTO ministerial in Seattle and halted WTO expansion, Obama faces a choice. Will he help modernize the global economy? Or will he continue the agenda of the past, which has fostered devastating economic, food and climate crises? Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division, explores [...]

By now, you’ve probably heard about the story of Jamie Leigh Jones. In 2005, she was working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq when she was gang-raped by coworkers. Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice.
Jamie can’t pursue justice in criminal court because the rape took place overseas, and a forced arbitration clause [...]

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, it is appropriate for the Environmental Protection Agency to use this law for the agency’s most important and challenging task yet: solving climate change. Decades of success using the act to make America’s communities cleaner and safer can serve as a model of how [...]

What a perfect day for a protest! Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman and SEIU’s Andy Stern rallied the crowd in front of the Capitol Hill headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Our message? Break up the banks.
From Politico:
Several speakers and numerous signs at the protest called for Congress to break up the “too big to fail” banks – [...]

We’ve been spreading the word that the Supreme Court is considering a critically important case this fall: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The case started out as a pretty technical dispute about the application of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law to the right-wing group Citizens United’s plan to broadcast a movie smearing Hillary Clinton [...]

Several thousand citizens made their voices heard this week in Chicago at the American Bankers Association convention, telling the banksters that enough is enough. We’re sick of them taking trillions of dollars in taxpayer cash and supports while handing out millions in bonuses to their executives. It’s time to break up the big banking firms [...]

Things have been quiet on the Don’t Get Rolled front. We’re still waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision, and there’s still good reason to fear that the court could overturn a century of campaign finance law, allowing unlimited corporate spending to influence elections. Sound like a bad idea to you? You can pledge to protest [...]

If you are a fan of deep discussions about financial policy and international market forces, then you’ll want to check out this video from a panel discussion held last week at Public Citizen’s offices in Washington, D.C. The panel focused on the International Monetary Fund’s role during the global financial crisis and included Public Citizen [...]

Former Public Citizen research associate Jonas Hines and his medical school friends put together this video lampooning the pharma industry’s corrupting influence on doctors. It’s a great follow up to their earlier hit Still Just Some Guy (Not a Doctor Yet). While the video is fun, the message is serious. Big Pharma spends big bucks [...]

With all the attention focused on health care, it’s easy to forget that Congress is also considering critical climate control legislation. The House version, called the Waxman-Markey bill, falls far short of what is needed and gives far too many breaks to the energy industry. In the Senate, the Kerry-Boxer discussion draft, also has some [...]

Twenty years ago, Ling Chai was one of the leaders of the student movement that captivated the world with its stand against the Chinese government in Tiananmen Square. These days, she’s the president and CEO of an educational software company called Jenzabar. Chai, who has prospered in the years since Tiananmen, is now ironically trying [...]

Actor, activist and author Mike Farrell is touring the country talking about his latest book, Of Mule and Men, which was inspired by the people he met and places he visited during the promotional tour for his first book, Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist. We’re big fans of Farrell’s dedication [...]

Sen. Al Franken, the new patron saint of fair arbitration, tore into an arbitration apologist Wednesday, administering a beating that one would more expect to see in a boxing ring than a committee hearing room. If you don’t believe me, watch for yourself.
Poor Mark de Bernardo, a partner at corporate-side employment law firm Jackson [...]

You could sit around and complain about everything that’s going wrong with the world, or you could get involved and make a difference. Join a group like Public Citizen and help hold government and corporations accountable. We’ve been around since 1971 representing the public interest in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. Chris Mumford [...]

We’re still recovering from yesterday’s visit from filmmaker Michael Moore. As we wrote earlier, Moore stopped by our offices to deliver a message to President Obama that it was time to hit the “reset button” on health care reform and back a single-payer plan that guarantees coverage for all Americans.
You can see video of what [...]

Filmmaker Michael Moore gave an impassioned plea for single-payer health coverage at a press conference today at our offices in Washington, D.C. His message for President Obama and members of Congress was rather simple: Give us single-payer, universal health coverage now, or feel the wrath of the voters come election time.
If President Obama would support [...]

Come rally for financial reform with Michael Moore, Public Citizen and our Americans for Financial Reform coalition members at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29 near the capitol. The rally will be at the Taft Memorial on the U.S. Capitol grounds (outside), at 1st and Constitution Ave. N.W. (Union Station is the nearest Metro [...]

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch program, talks about what’s at stake at the G-20 economic summit to be held Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh, Pa. Public Citizen was one of the many groups that wrote to President Obama last week, urging him to “advocate a global regulatory floor, and oppose any [...]