Saturday, March 3, 2007

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood

Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up – and the rights of parents to raise them – without being undermined by rampant consumerism. CCFC is headquartered at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston.

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CCFC TAKES A SLICE OUT OF

PIZZA HUT'S BOOK IT! PROGRAM

Urges schools and preschools to stop promoting

fast food in the name of literacy



Tell Scholastic: No Bratz in Schools!

Highly Sexualized Dolls Promoted Through Book Fairs and Book Clubs



CCFC to President Bush:

Luring Babies to Screens is Not Heroic

President Uses SOTU to Provide Free Infomercial for Baby Einstein


A Guide to Commercial-Free Book Fairs

How and Why to Do Hold a Book Fair At Your School

Without Corporate Marketing or Media Tie-Ins!











Raffi Cavoukian, winner of the 2006 Fred Rogers Integrity Award,

at CCFC's protest against BusRadio.



Click here to learn what you can do to stop BusRadio





Violent Video Game Ads in Public Space



CCFC & PTC to Denver RTD

Stop Advertising Violent Video Games

Broad Coalition asks RTD to Change Advertising Policy



MBTA Changes Policy: No More Violent

Videogame Ads on Boston Mass Transit
Decision follows CCFC letter signed by Mayor Menino,

Legislators, Community Leaders and Public Health Advocates





In the News
Parents push to boot Bratz books from Scholastic fairs

Message and the Media: Our girls deserve better

Diaper Demographic: TV, Video Programming for the Under-2 Market Grows Despite Lack of Clear Educational Benefit

As Pop Culture Targets Ever Younger Girls, Psychologists Worry About a Premature Focus on Sex and Appearance

Attorneys General of 21 States Lash Out at Bud.tv Age Checks

Cell Phone Makers Accused of Tween Targeting

Toy companies are playing Internet game for all it's worth

Holiday of Love an Opportunity to Teach Charity

Toy Fair Resembles CES for Kids

Snack-Ad Attack

A Shopping-Cart-Ad Plan That Might Actually Work

M&M's maker to stop marketing to kids

Envy, Anxiety, Secrecy, Taboos: The Subject Must Be Money

Are Canadian babies ready for their own TV channel?

Shrek Flip-flops in Obesity Fight

Fruit shown on label often not in the box, kids' food study says

Baby Einstein and the Bush Administration: There's More than Meets the Eye



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Books by CCFC Steering Committee Members



The Body Myth by Psychology and Consumer Consuming Kids by The War Play Dilemma

CCFC's Joe Kelly Culture. CCFC's Allen CCFC's Susan Linn by CCFC's Diane Levin

and Margo Maine Kanner & Tim Kasser, Eds. Now in Paperback! & Nancy Carlsson Paige


http://www.commercialexploitation.org/

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