Government
Goal
To stop the commercialization of federal, state and local governments and the growth of corporate influence upon them.
Governments exist to serve public ends, for example, to keep us safe from fire and theft, to pick up the garbage, to look after the parks, to teach our children, to tend to the poor, to help keep us healthy. Increasingly, corporations are capturing parts of government, and using them as tools for their own commercial ends.
The government campaign opposes these efforts by seeking to halt the conversion of government into a corporate advertising vehicle, and working to reduce the overwhelming influence of corporations upon federal, state and local governments.
It is a sign of the decline in our values that we increasingly name our public places not after heroes or history, but after corporations with the deepest pockets.
Much public corruption and influence-peddling is simply a form of excessive corporate influence in government. The government campaign opposes corruption and influence-peddling in the U.S. Congress through the Congressional Accountability Project.