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Top 10 ways you can target Kodak in your community or campus
1. Hold a Local Kodak Event
2. Join the Kodak Kids Clean Air Campaign!
3. Contact Kodak Yourself!
4. Hold a Kodak Call-in Day
5. Contact the Federal Health Agency for Action!
6. Educate your Community or Campus!
7. Publicity Campaign
8. Hold a Media Event
9. Send in a Letter to the Editor
10. Support a Kodak Shareholder Resolution

1. Hold a Local Kodak Event

Organize a demonstration at a local business (such as Wal-Mart or CVS) that sells Kodak film. There are businesses around the country that sell Kodak. Get other groups in your area to join you. Be sure to invite the media! Feel free to download our fact sheets and distribute them at your event!

2. Join the Kodak Kids Clean Air Campaign!

Join the Kodak Kids Clean Air Campaign and hold accountable one of the biggest corporate polluters in the U.S. Urge Kodak to clean up children's air and prevent cancer! You will receive monthly action alerts. Join by emailing us at cecmike@choiceonemail.com.

Publicize Campaign Ads: You can get others to join the campaign by placing an ad in a local publication. Print out one of our ads and get it published in a group newsletter, college publication, or a friend's zine. You can also post them around your community or hand them out at events.

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3. Contact Kodak Yourself!

Organize a letter-writing campaign: Get all of your friends and loved ones to write letters to Kodak's CEO, Daniel Carp. You can download a sample letter by clicking here.

Daniel A. Carp, CEO
Eastman Kodak
343 State Street
Rochester, NY 14650
Fax # (716) 724-5700
Daniel.carp@kodak.com

Return empty film canisters: Encourage your friends to gather empty Kodak film canisters and return them with a note explaining how you won't support a company who makes empty promises to clean up the environment.

4. Hold a Kodak Call-in Day

Organize a call-in event with your group, friends or at your school and let Kodak know you oppose their dangerous toxic emissions. Set up a table by a pay phone, or get cell phones donated from a local store for the day. Call Kodak at 1-800-242-2424 or leave a message for CEO Daniel Carp at (716) 588-9050 and tell them as a world-class company they should be leading the film industry by phasing out their incinerators and implementing alternative technologies that are more protective of human health and the environment. In the 1960s, members of Saul Alinksy's group FIGHT did this to pressure Kodak on hiring practices and were very successful.

5. Contact the Federal Health Agency for Action!

Write a letter. Contact the federal Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) and urge them to hire an independent team of scientists to conduct an "intensive review" of all childhood brain cancer cases in the Kodak neighborhood and whether these cases may be linked to Kodak's emissions of cancer-causing chemicals.

Arthur Block
Senior Regional Representative
ATSDR / EPA Region 2
290 Broadway
28th Floor
New York, NY 10007

Pressure the DOH to release targeted cancer maps: Write to the NYS Department of Health and urge them to release targeted, accurate cancer maps that may be linked to high emissions of endocrine disrupters, including the incidence of central nervous system, testicular and prostate cancers, and leukemia in Monroe County children. There should be useful neighborhood, city, and county maps. Also based on the EPA's conclusions in the dioxin reassessment that dioxin is a known human carcinogen and is ten times more hazardous than previously thought, urge the DOH to redo the risk assessment for Kodak's dioxin emissions.

Antonia Novello
Commissioner
New York State Department of Health
Empire State Plaza
Corning Tower
14th Floor Albany, NY 12237

Check back at this site soon for sample letters and postcards you can download.

6. Educate your Community or Campus!

Organize a Teach-in: Invite people on your campus or in your community to an educational Teach-in. You can give a presentation or you can invite speakers from environmental groups or Universities. Discuss with everyone how they can get involved in the campaign for corporate accountability.

Table at events: You can set up an organizing table at public events or at your school. Gather a bunch of flyers and set up a table and sign somewhere in your community or on your campus where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic. Good places to table are in Student Unions, outside grocery stores, etc.

Give presentations: Ask local community groups, unions, and churches for permission to give five-minute summaries of the campaign at the beginning of their meetings. Before you begin, ask a few people to pass out petitions for the members to sign while you are talking. Collect the petitions and mail them to Daniel Carp.

Perform a street theater skit: Street theater in a prominent location can creatively and effectively dramatize the campaign. Props and visuals work well to draw a crowd and provide good photo opportunities. Invite the local media. Do the skit in front of a local store that sells Kodak film.

7. Publicity Campaign

Put up flyers in your neighborhood or at your campus. Go to the local copy shop and make a few hundred copies, and plaster your community. Again, you can download our fact sheets.

Post creative and fun visuals in common spaces (park, sidewalks, cafes, community centers, etc.) to create a buzz about the campaign and inform folks about upcoming events. Target Kodak locations in your community.

Download or purchase bumper stickers, stickers, and buttons.

8. Hold a Media Event

Getting media exposure is an excellent way to build support and inform people about the Kodak campaign. The media allows you to reach the greatest number of people in the shortest amount of time. Use every opportunity to generate coverage by community and campus media outlets. Be especially sure to contact the media before every campaign event.

Press conferences: Organize a media event to launch the campaign in your area. Make big visuals, copy fact sheets, line up a few speakers and write a Press Release to hand out at the event. Be sure to send out and fax a press release to invite the media to any action you plan. Always designate a couple of folks to be campaign spokespeople.

9. Send in a Letter to the Editor

Send in letters to the editors to local papers in support of the campaign. Have your friends submit letters to the editor. Click here to see a sample letter to the editor.

10. Support a Kodak Shareholder Resolution

New York State activists are putting together Shareholder Resolutions that will be voted on at Kodak's annual Shareholder Convention in May 2002. Get involved now by researching if your school or company invests in Kodak. If so, please get in touch (cecmike@choiceonemail.com)! We can provide ideas and support your efforts to have your university or business vote on the shareholder resolution or divest from Kodak.

See a sample Shareholder Resolution which received 14% of the vote in 1999. With this resolution, we garnered the support of New York State Comptroller Carl McCall, who voted 1.3 million shares towards our resolution, Disclosing Environmental Liabilities to Shareholders, which urges Kodak to realistically calculate the costs for cleaning up their 44 Superfund sites nationwide. We effectively argued before the Security and Exchange Commission after Kodak attempted to exclude this resolution from shareholder vote. Having received an impressive 14% share of the vote and public support, we believe this resolution is another avenue to pressure Kodak to clean up their act.

Please stay in touch! Inform us of any action or event you organize in your community at cecmike@choiceonemail.com , 716-885-6848. Many thanks!