Corporate Personhood Human Rights
Gaveling Down the Rabble
In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane
Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and
the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using a
“free trade” model. It was that very nineteenth-century model that was
later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at
protecting the environment and citizen and worker health. More >
The Elite Consensus
Financial and business corporations throw millions
of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting
writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl
symbols, sell lies, whip people into line. The Elite Consensus fingers
the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, and many other
“educational” corporations, which men of property have unleashed on this
planet. The author shows how these corporate con artists teach us our
history, elect our representatives, write our laws, define ideas and
frame public policy debates. Originally published in 2000 by Blue
Mountains Biodiversity Project as The Corporate Consensus. More >
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy
In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds,
POCLADers probe: corporations as “legal persons”; corporate social
responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation
codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more. More >
The Rule of Property
In The Rule of Property, Karen Coulter offers a
groundbreaking new perspective on the rise of private property over the
public domain by linking two popular streams of thought: the legal
history of the rise of corporate power developed by POCLAD (Program on
Corporations, Law and Democracy) together with the new thinking about
corporate encroachment on the ecological and social commons. Coulter, a
member of POCLAD, is also a forest activist who watchdogs public lands
against corporate theft. More >
Abuse of Power
The enormous size and global reach of multinational
corporations make it increasingly difficult for any one country to hold
them accountable when they behave recklessly. This book demonstrates
just how serious and urgent the problem has become by exposing Union
Carbide’s record of abuse of its workers and the environment. Abuse of
Power examines the inadequacy of existing mechanisms and presents new
ways of curbing corporate irresponsibility. More >
Global Aggression
An expose by INFACT (now Corporate Accountability
International) of the role of the US-based tobacco corporations Philip
Morris and RJR Nabisco in aggressively promoting tobacco
internationally, contributing to the deaths of 3.5 million people
worldwide per year. Filled with examples of manipulation of public
policy and big Tobacco’s disregard for advertising restrictions in other
countries, Global Aggression builds a case for a combination of
consumer pressure and world standards to stop the spread of
tobacco-related diseases and hold tobacco transnationals accountable. More >
Building Unions
Your union local or activist community group is
doing good work against one corporate assault after another. But your
successes aren’t making the next campaigns easier. Or challenging public
officials who enable corporate usurpations.You’re itching to take
action. More >
Inhuman Rights
An expose by INFACT (now Corporate Accountability
International) of the role of the US-based tobacco corporations Philip
Morris and RJR Nabisco in aggressively promoting tobacco
internationally, contributing to the deaths of 3.5 million people
worldwide per year. Filled with examples of manipulation of public
policy and big Tobacco’s disregard for advertising restrictions in other
countries, Global Aggression builds a case for a combination of
consumer pressure and world standards to stop the spread of
tobacco-related diseases and hold tobacco transnationals accountable. More >
War and Peace and Democracy
Of all the possible responses to the attacks of
September 11, why did the U.S. government choose war? What can a
reactivated peace movement learn from the Iraq war and from 20th Century
social movement history to prepare us to do more than react to the
demands of empire? In other words: how can we fundamentally challenge
the power of corporations to turn our government against us and march
another generation off to war? More >
Taking Care of Business
From the Preface: Corporations cause harm every day.
Why do their harms go unchecked? How can they dictate what we produce,
how we work, what we eat, drink and breathe? How did a self-governing
people let this come to pass? More >
