Corporations

Google Drops ALEC, Further Commitment To Clean Energy

September 23, 2014 Brian Johnson, www.greenpeaceblogs.org Educate! Corporations, Energy, Environment

The clean energy commitment of one of the world’s most powerful brands just became even more real. Today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that his company would be dropping its membership in ALEC, the notorious corporate lobby group which has pushed for legislation that denies the reality of climate change and attacks renewable energy policy in states around the country. Schmidt cited ALEC’s denial of climate change as the reason for Google’s exit. Speaking on The Diane Rehm Show, Schmidt said: “The facts of climate change are not in question anymore, everyone understands that climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place, and we should not be aligned with such people. They are just literally lying.”

Chris Hedges: The Coming Climate Revolt

September 22, 2014 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Resist! Climate Change, Corporations

We are no longer a capitalist democracy endowed with a functioning liberal class that once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible. Liberals in the old Democratic Party such as the senators Gaylord Nelson, Birch Bayh and George McGovern—who worked with Ralph Nader to make the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Mine Safety and Health Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the OSHA law, who made common cause with labor unions to protect workers, who stood up to the arms industry and a bloated military—no longer exist within the Democratic Party, as Nader has been lamenting for several years.

How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign

September 21, 2014 Arun Gupta, www.counterpunch.org Organize! Climage Change, Corporations, Energy, Environment

I’ve never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch. Welcome to the “People’s Climate March” set for Sunday, Sept. 21 in New York City. It’s timed to take place before world leaders hold a Climate Summit at the United Nations two days later. Organizers are billing it as the “biggest climate change demonstration ever” with similar marches around the world

A Million Americans Demand Corporations Disclose Political Spending

September 5, 2014 Liz Kennedy, www.demos.org Organize! Corporations, Corporatism, Corruption, Money As Speech

The Securities and Exchange Commission just received a million comments, by far the most they've ever received, demanding that they protect investors and the public interest by requiring corporations to disclose their political spending. This mandate comes as corporate dark money is flooding into our system, empowering the donor class at the expense of the rest of us. Millions of dollars from publicly traded companies have already been spent in federal and state elections since Citizens United. Unions are required to disclose their political spending to the Department of Labor but there's no similar rule covering the new corporate political spending. The SEC has broad authority to act on corporate disclosure when doing so is in the public interest or in the interest of investors.

Major Internet Corporations Call For Net Neutrality

July 15, 2014 Educate! Corporations, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The Internet Association today submitted its comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging Commissioners to take strong and decisive action to guarantee an open Internet for the future. The Internet Association’s comments mark the first time that more than two dozen of the world’s most-recognizable and successful Internet companies have spoken with a unified voice on the issue of Net Neutrality. “Segregation of the Internet into fast lanes and slow lanes will distort the market, discourage innovation and harm Internet users,” said Michael Beckerman, President and CEO of The Internet Association. “The FCC must act to create strong, enforceable net neutrality rules and apply them equally to both wireless and wireline providers. The Internet Association’s comments to the FCC can be distilled into three key tenets necessary to secure and preserve an open Internet for the future: 1. Internet Users Should Get What They Want, When They Want It The Internet should be free from censorship, discrimination and anticompetitive behavior, protected by simple and enforceable rules that ensure a consumer’s equal access to the content they want.

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