Take your own ACTION STEPS. Below are several organizations that provide information how you can get involved with your own children, as well as on local, regional, and national levels.

Children’s Defense Fund  (www.childrensdefense.org)

Stand for Children  (www.standforchildren.org)

MomsRising  (www.momsrising.com)

Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (www.commercialfreechildhood.org)

Commercial Alert  (www.commercialalert.org)

TRUCE   (www.truceteachers.org)

GamePolitics  (http://www.gamepolitics.com/legislation.htm)

Educators for Social Responsibility (www.esr.org)

Fair Trade Fundraiser Program (www.equalexchange.com/fundraiser)

TV Turn-off Network  (www.tvturnoff.org)

Free Press  (www.freepress.net)


Tell the MPAA: Stop the Marketing of Violent PG-13 Movies to Preschoolers

Burger King Iron Man toy giveaways for preschoolers. Indiana Jones Lunchables. Incredible Hulk toys for children as young as three. The Dark Knight Cheerios. This summer’s violent PG-13 blockbusters are being marketed to young children. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) could stop this onslaught but they won’t. Visit http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/621/t/6725/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24562 to the tell the MPAA to stop the marketing of violent PG-13 movies to young children.