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The Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood
versus Democracy
By William Meyers
includes
the following topics:
- What Corporate
Personhood Is
- The History of Corporate
Personhood
- Why Corporate
Constitutional Rights Are
Anti-democratic
- What would change if
corporations lost
personhood?
- How We Can Revoke
Corporate Personhood
- Frequently
Asked Questions
Attacking Corporate Personhood - The Future
of Environmental Law
By Richard Grossman
With few
exceptions, people come out of law school
without having questioned pro-corporate doctrines on property (i.e.,
future profits are corporate property, the fruits of employees' labor
are corporate property, and the right to manage is corporate property).
They accept today's giant corporations as inevitable. They don't seem
to wonder how it came to pass that corporations became legal persons
with free speech and other constitutional rights, while workers on
company turf have no Bill of Rights protections.
How Corporations Became 'Persons' - The
amazing true story of a legal fiction that undermines American democracy
By Tom Stites
for UU
World XVII:3 (May/June 2003)
The amazing true story of a
legal fiction that
undermines American democracy. "Corporations have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of
the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the Republic is destroyed."
Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie"
By Thom Hartman
An article by the author of
"Unequal Protection" about the Nike case and the history of Corporate
Personhood.
Maximizing Profit, Endangering
Health
This
article in the October/December, 2005 issue of International Journal of
Occupational and Environmental Health at www.ijoeh.com
explains how corporate power is a major cause of health problems. There
is also an article on the Corporate Corruption of Science.
The Table of Contents of the special issue is here.
Junk Food Nation
Read an abstract of
this online article along with a link to locate the online article.
Pirates of the
Corporation
Read an abstract
of this online article along with a link to locate the online article.
It's the Corporation, Stupid
By
David G. Mills
This article explains
that fascism is "the consolidation of corporate economic and
governmental power in the hands of a few".
It refers to the Spring, 2003 article by Dr. Lawrence Britt that
describes the "14 Characteristics of Fascism", which includes
controlled mass media and protection of corporate power. You can find
Dr. Britt's article many places, including here.
The Humanity of It All
By
Robert Weissman
This article, one in a
series of weekly online columns, asks rhetorical questions about how a
corporation can be a person, but only when it wants to be.
Focus on the Corporation
By Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
This is a
series of columns by the authors of Corporate Predators.
From this page, you can subscribe to
the columns or you can go to an introduction page of columns from 1998
and 1999.
Corporate Tax Dodgers
This article,
subtitled The Decline in U.S. Corporate
Taxes and the Rise in Offshore Tax Haven Abuses,
discusses some of the ways that corporations avoid paying taxes. The
article is on the web site of the Center for Corporate Policy, www.corporatepolicy.org.
Ending Corporate Governance Recommended
Reading List
An extensive reading list
of online articles on corporate personhood.
Scientific American: Doubt Is Their Product
[ PUBLIC SAFETY AND POLICY ]
Industry groups are
fighting government regulation by fomenting scientific uncertainty
according to this article in the June, 2005 issue of Scientific
American. The full text of the article is available online
to subscribers to Scientific American.
From Public Use To Corporate Abuse
An article at reclaimdemocracy.org
about how eminent domain is exploited by government/corporate
partnerships.
What to do about Wal-Mart
By
Stacy Mitchell
This article suggests that,
rather than trying to convince Wal-Mart to change its ways and become a
better corporate citizen, it may be better to focus on some underlying
policies that created it and other powerful global corporations.
Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste
By Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, The New York Times
This article on truthout.org describes
the environmental and human rights abuses of Freeport-McRoran, an
American company mining gold in Indonesia.
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