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Quicktime version: (2.5 mb file: high quaility - recommended version) Realplayer version: (600K - low quality) Free viewing software available at: Realplayer or Quicktime  Order the film now This film features: - Ralph Estes, Accounting Professor and Former Arthur Andersen Auditor - William Thompson, Jr. Comptroller, City of New York - Father Seamus Finn, shareholder activist - Tim Smith, President, Social Investment Forum  - Ralph Nader  - Robert Hinkley, Former Board Room Securities Lawyer - Michelle Chan-Fishel, Friends of the Earth  - John Wilson, Christian Brothers Investment Service  - Mindy Lubber, Attorney and Founder, Green Century Investments  - Amy Domini, Founder, Domini Social Investments  - Dr. Ted Schettler, Physicians for Social Responsibility  - Law Professor Cynthia Williams

Corporate accountability on environment and human rights isn't just a good idea -- it's the law. But it isn't being enforced.

"Off the Books! Environment & Human Rights" is a new 30-minute film by Attorney Sanford Lewis that describes the potential and limits of an enforceable, disclosure-based strategy for corporate accountability. Picking up on current public attention around the Enron scandal, this film provokes discussion of broad issues regarding corporate disclosure of public health, social and environmental issues. It calls for better enforcement and clearer reporting standards from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Even from the covers of Business Week and the Wall Street Journal, the demand for corporate responsibility is becoming widespread. But unfortunately, in most of the business world that call does not recognize the role of Wall Street in environment, health and human rights issues. "Off the Books" is helping to bridge that gap... the message has never been more needed than it is now. 

The video has generated lively discussions among hundreds of viewers at conferences and public screenings, and created enormous interest in holding more screenings across the U.S. through business and law schools, investor groups, and public interest organizations. Free Speech TV has also offered to broadcast the film in September-October 2002, which would reach over eight million households. 

TO TAP THE CURRENT INTEREST IN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND INVOLVEMENT NOW!

TO DONATE:
Credit card donations can be made securely and electronically. Make sure to indicate that you would like to support "Off the Books" film or the work of the "Corporate Sunshine Working Group."

Or make checks payable to "Friends of the Earth/OTB Video Project" and send to 1025 Vermont Ave., NW #300 Washington, DC 20005. Your donations to FOE, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by the IRS and federal law. 

TO GET INVOLVED:
Please contact Michelle Chan-Fishel or Sanford Lewis