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| It might be difficult to avoid [Amazon](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/reasons-not-buy-amazon/), [Über](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/beware-the-sharing-economy-back-door-for-a-more-rapacious-form-of-capitalism/), Microsoft and the like, but really, that’s the most important first task. If they keep getting bigger, they’ll make it harder and harder to introduce alternatives in the future. We have to find those alternatives now – all of us. | It might be difficult to avoid [Amazon](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/reasons-not-buy-amazon/), [Uber](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/beware-the-sharing-economy-back-door-for-a-more-rapacious-form-of-capitalism/), Microsoft and the like, but really, that’s the most important first task. If they keep getting bigger, they’ll make it harder and harder to introduce alternatives in the future. We have to find those alternatives now – all of us. |
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| [This is a story](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/what-post-covid-communities-could-look-like-if-enough-of-us-want-it/) of how communities might operate in a democratic, non-corporate world. | [This is a story](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/what-post-covid-communities-could-look-like-if-enough-of-us-want-it/) of how communities might operate in a democratic, non-corporate world. |
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| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [Center for Corporate Policy](http://www.corporatepolicy.org/) - working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable |
| | - [Center for Science in the Public Interest](https://www.cspi.org/) - monitoring corporate influence in science |
| | - [Corporate Europe Observatory](https://www.corporateeurope.org/en) - exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU |
| | - [Corporate Watch](https://corporatewatch.org/) - not-for-profit researching the social and environmental effects of corporate power |
| | - [CorpWatch](https://www.corpwatch.org/) - provide accurate, timely and easily accessible articles, reports and data on violations by multinational corporations to activists, media, the general public and policy makers |
| | - [Open Secrets](https://www.opensecrets.org/) - US site exposing money's influence on US elections and public policy |
| | - [Reclaim Democracy](https://reclaimdemocracy.org/) - resource for individual activists, groups, reporters, legislators, and the public |
| | - [Think Tank Watch](https://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com/) - informing about corporate think tanks |
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| ## Specialist curators of this topic | ## Specialist curators of this topic |
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