Call Number:

CDG-A.INFACT

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)

Date:

1982-1992 (bulk)

Abstract:

This collection includes only material about the campaign against nuclear weapons and the General Electric Company boycott while the organization was still named INFACT. The collection consists of printed materials: reports, memoranda, press releases, news clippings.

Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), a citizen action group formed in the United States in 1977; "committed to stopping life-threatening abuses of transnational corporations"; INFACT's first campaign (1977-1984) was aimed at changing the corporate marketing practices of infant formula in the United States and in Third World countries which led to the boycott of the Swiss-giant Nestlé Corporation; its second major campaign (1984-1993) was aimed at exposing corporate connections to the nuclear weapons build-up, which led to a boycott against the General Electric Company; INFACT changed its name in 2004 or 2005 to Corporate Accountability International.