Research tools

Information is a weapon in today's world. Here are tools for ensuring our campaign work – from local connections between your campus and Burger King to big picture trends in the corporate food and marketing industries – is accurate and on point.

If you have a particular interest in research, you may want to join our research working group - contact us for more information.

• Google News Alerts - email updates of the latest relevant Google news results based on your choice of query or topic, such as "Publix," "Sodexo," "Giant supermarket," "Immokalee workers," etc.
  

• DataCenter Research - Tools designed to help organizers and activists think strategically about the role of information in developing actions and campaigns and to provide a practical guide for doing effective campaign research.
  
  
• CorpWatch: Hands-On Corporate Research Guide - This interactive guide will take you step by step through researching corporations on the Internet.
  
  
• Guide to Researching Your Campus - Does your campus have any ties with the McDonald's group?
  
  
• Brief Guide to Researching Your Campus - More tools for investigating your school
  
  
• Strategic Corporate Research (Chart 1 + Chart 2) - Helpful guides for corporate research produced by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich
  
  
• Research for Radicals