Some of the most powerful industries in the country are working to shield themselves from being held accountable in court.

Big Oil is pushing for immunity from the climate lawsuits it spent decades trying to prevent by lying to the public about climate change. Pesticide manufacturers have quietly inserted language into a federal appropriations bill that would block farmers, workers, and families from suing chemical companies even when their products cause cancer, Parkinson's disease, or worse. Big Tech and AI companies are fighting regulatory guardrails before they can take hold. The gun industry already got its legal shield years ago, and it has served as a model for everyone that came after.

These industries aren't trying to do less harm. They're trying to make sure harm doesn't cost them anything.

The ability to hold corporations accountable — to make them answer for what they did — is one of the most fundamental tools ordinary people have. It's how tobacco companies were finally forced to reckon with what they knew and hid for decades. It's how contaminated communities have won compensation. It's how workers, farmers, and families have gotten any measure of justice at all against industries with nearly unlimited resources. Corporate immunity removes the only real consequences many of these companies will ever face, and once that accountability is gone, there's no reason for them to do anything to protect the public.  

Meanwhile, families, farmers, workers, and communities living with the consequences of corporate recklessness are left to absorb those costs on their own. That's the trade Congress is being asked to make. Corporate pro tection in exchange for everyone else's ability to seek justice.

This affects every movement working on every issue where a corporation's recklessness is part of the problem (which is most of them). If an industry can lobby its way out of accountability, it has every incentive to keep causing harm. And if Big Oil, Big Tech, or Big Ag gets that shield today, every other industry facing liability is watching and taking notes.

Sign to tell Congress: no special legal protections for powerful industries. The law should apply to everyone — and people who are harmed deserve their day in court.