Corporatism

The Mexicanization Of The United States

March 15, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Resist! Corporatism, Mexico, NAFTA, United States

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - The neoliberal ideology that is the engine of corporate capitalism spews its poison around the globe. Constitutions are rewritten by judicial fiat in a mockery of democracy. Laws and regulations that impede corporate exploitation are abolished. Corporations orchestrate legally sanctioned tax boycotts. Free-trade deals destroy small farmers and businesses along with labor unions and government agencies designed to protect the public from contaminated air, water and food and from usurious creditors and lenders.

GMA Found Guilty Of $11 Million Cover Up

March 13, 2016 Staff, www.sustainablepulse.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, GMOs

By Sustainable Pulse. Washington State - In a decision made public late Friday, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association violated Washington campaign finance disclosure laws by shielding the identities of major corporate donors funding efforts to defeat a food labeling initiative in Washington. “This landmark case has been a long fight for accountability,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said. “This ruling sends an unequivocal message: Big money donors cannot evade Washington law and hide from public scrutiny. My office will hold you accountable.” The case, State v. Grocery Manufacturers Association, concerns GMA’s financing of a 2013 campaign against Initiative 522, which sought to require labeling of genetically engineered products. GMA, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association, was the largest single donor to the “No on 522” political committee.

The Door-To-Door Union Killers

March 13, 2016 Steven Greenhouse, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corporatism, Labor Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Steven Greenouse for The Guardian. Seattle, WA - For several months, Shawna Murphy, a home-based childcare provider in Seattle, had received a stream of emails, letters and robocalls – some two dozen of them – telling her she had the right to stop paying union dues. Then early one afternoon, while the six children in her charge were napping, a man with a briefcase knocked on her door. At first Murphy thought he was a lawyer, but then she realized he might be a state inspector of childcare providers. So she opened the door. “He said there’s this supreme court case that will impact me, and he pulled out this leaflet and told me that I don’t have to be part of the union and don’t have to pay union dues,” said Murphy, a member of the Service Employees International Union. “I told him, ‘I’m a proud supporter of the union, and you can leave now.’”

Armed U.S. Marshals Enforce Eminent Domain

March 6, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Educate! Corporatism, eminent domain, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By John Zangas of DC Media Group. New Milford, PA - The land of the free got a little smaller this week when cutters from Williams Partners Company began clear-cutting trees on the Zeffer-Holleran property, readying it for construction of the Constitution pipeline. Five acres of the property were condemned under eminent domain to build the natural gas pipeline. A dozen Pennsylvania State police and heavily armed U.S. Marshals escorted scores of tree cutters to remove hundreds of sugar bush maple trees from the property. The Marshals carried AR-15 assault weapons and wore bullet proof vests. But when the cutters began tree removal they encountered trees with U.S. flags activists had painted on them. Activists stood out of the way during the cutting but held large signs spelling “People Not Pipelines.”

Factory Farming Divestment: What You Need To Know

March 5, 2016 Tom Levitt, www.theguardian.com Create! Animal Rights, antibiotics, Corporatism, Divestment, Factory Farming, Food and Agriculture

By Tom Levitt for The Guardian - The fast food chain Subway is latest to join the backlash against antibiotic use in the farm sector. It has launched a new chicken sandwich in the US made with meat from animals raised without antibiotics. The move is a sign of the growing consumer and business interest in the welfare and environmental impact of animals reared for meat, dairy and eggs, with most of the blame directed at intensive, factory-style farms. Hoping to echo the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement (which has seen more than 400 institutions commit to pulling money from coal, oil and gas companies to tackle climate change)...

5 Years Later, TEPCO Admits It Lied About Meltdown

February 28, 2016 Staff, www.environews.tv Educate! Corporatism, Fukushima, health, Media, Nuclear Power

By Enviro News World News. Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) knew within hours following the 3/11/11 tsunami that a full-scale, multi-reactor nuclear meltdown was underway. THE LIE: TEPCO waited nearly two months to inform the public. Those were the staggering admissions handed down to the media in a press release published by TEPCO on February 24, 2016. Of course, for many people on the inside track with Fukushima Daiichi news, this came as no surprise at all. TEPCO admitted it was aware of the meltdowns from the inception and apologized, saying a declaration should have been made to the public. Despite the admissions of wrong-doing in the press release, on the other hand, TEPCO says it didn’t break the law, and did what was required when it reported the meltdowns to the Japanese Government within three days.

Your Help Needed: Exelon-Pepco Make Bad Deal With DC

February 26, 2016 Mike Ewall, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Energy, Environmental Justice, health

By Mike Ewall of Energy Justice Network. Washington, DC - The effort by nuclear utility giant, Exelon, to swallow up our local electric utility (Pepco) was just DENIED again today by DC's Public Service Commission (PSC)! This merger would have formed the nation's largest electric utility, raised rates for DC residents, and would have harmed renewable energy efforts while helping subsidize ailing nuclear power plants elsewhere in the country. This is a great victory, as Mayor Bowser sought to overturn the PSC's previous rejection of the merger with some serious arm-twisting and a settlement that failed to address the underlying problems with the merger.

Scientists Tell Largest Science Organization To Reject Exxon

February 25, 2016 Staff, www.thenaturalhistorymuseum.org Resist! Climate Change, Corporatism, Exxon, Science

By The Natural History Museum. Cambridge, MA — On February 22, 2016, more than 100* geoscientists sent a letter (also attached) to the President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - the world’s largest association of Earth scientists - calling for an end to ExxonMobil sponsorship of AGU in a stand against climate science disinformation. “As Earth scientists, we are deeply troubled by the well-documented complicity of ExxonMobil in climate denial and misinformation…By allowing Exxon to appropriate AGU’s institutional social license to help legitimize the company’s climate misinformation, AGU is undermining its stated values as well as the work of many of its own members,” states the letter.

Tacoma Methanol Plant Plans Paused

February 21, 2016 Derrick Nunnally, www.thenewstribune.com Resist! Corporatism, Environment, health, Methane

By Derrick Nunnally for the News tribune. Tacoma, Washington - A controversial proposal to build the world’s largest methanol manufacturing plant at the Port of Tacoma has been shelved for “the next several months,” the company proposing to build the facility said Friday afternoon. In a press release on its website, Northwest Innovation Works said it has asked Tacoma officials to pause the environmental review process that was a prerequisite to getting permits to build the plant. The company, which is majority-owned by China’s government, has proposed to build a facility that would produce 20,000 tons of methanol a day for export via tanker to China, where it would be used to manufacture plastics.

Most Charter Schools Are Public In Name Only

February 14, 2016 Steven Singer, www.gadflyonthewallblog.com Educate! Charter Schools, Corporatism, Education, Worker's Rights

By Steven Singer in Gadfly on the Wall Blog. As a public school teacher, I can never recall being at a training where charter operators taught us how to do things better with these time-tested strategies. I do, however, recall watching excellent co-workers furloughed because my district had to meet the rising costs of payments to our local charters. Moreover, if the freedom to experiment is so important, why not give that privilege to all public schools, not just a subset? The reality is much different than the ideal. In the overwhelming majority of cases, charter schools are vastly inferior to their more traditional brethren. To understand why, we need to see the differences between these two kinds of learning institutions and why in every case the advantage goes to our much-maligned, long suffering traditional public schools

People Power Turned Tree Cutters Away; More Help Needed

February 10, 2016 Megan Holleran, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By Megan Holleran of No Constitution Pipeline in PA. The Holleran family, friends and neighbors have been holding a constant presence on the Holleran property for over a week now to protect 100,000 of their trees from being cut down to make way for the Constitution Pipeline. Even though the pipeline has not been approved yet, the company is sending out tree cutters to clear the land. But, the Hollerans are doing everything they can to resist this irreparable harm. Today, they had a success and demonstrated the power of peaceful nonviolence. Here is their report from Facebook: On Wednesday morning at about 9:30am a tree cutting crew arrived on Three Lakes Road to access the Zeffer-Holloran property, where the Williams company’s proposed Constitution pipeline has seized land via eminent domain.

Communities Strengthen Resistance Against Mining

February 7, 2016 Staff, www.educaoaxaca.org Organize! Corporatism, Environment, Land grabs, Mining

By EDUCA Oaxaca. Mexico - In the community of Cerro de las Huertas, Ejutla de Crespo (Oaxaca) representatives of 48 communities and 30 social organizations participated on January 29 and 30 in the Conference of Communities and Organizations against Mining, in which they demand the state and federal governments for cancellation of all mining projects in Oaxaca. The goal, according to the “Colectivo Oaxaqueño en Defensa de los Territorios” and the organizing communities, was to create a space for reflection at the national level about the advancements and obstacles of the anti-mining movement in order to strengthen the resistance and defense of communities and organizations.

Kinder Morgan’s Request To Police Backfires

February 7, 2016 Domenic Poli, www.gazettenet.com Resist! Corporatism, Kinder Morgan, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Domenic Poli for the Gazette. Kinder Morgan wants state authority to enter onto more than 400 private properties to conduct surveys for the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project. Deerfield residents who choose to grant Kinder Morgan access to their private property do so at their own risk, according to the Select Board. Cristobal Bonifaz, an attorney working for Deerfield in its opposition to the pipeline, helped draft the nine-page document and said Thursday the risk in this case refers to any consequence of surveyors “fiddling around” on one’s land. Bonifaz said Deerfield is prepared to supersede any state authority and have police officers arrest anyone who enters onto private property as part of the pipeline project.

Dispossessed In The Name Of ‘Security’

January 31, 2016 Robert J. Burrowes, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, militarism

By Robert J. Burrowes for Popular Resistance. 'The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World' brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an 'opportunity'. The book examines how for the security/military-industrial complex 'climate change is just the latest in a long line of threats constructed in such a way as to consolidate its grip on power and public finance.' For corporations, the risk posed by climate change is an opportunity for profit as they promise us 'food security', 'water security', 'energy security' … even if it is at the expense of equity and justice and has 'disastrous implications for the security of human lives and dignity'. For the security industry, for example, it is an opportunity to offer governments an endless supply of resilience and disaster-related services that have little to do with human security, if your concern is ordinary people.

TTIP Allows Bureaucrats & Big Business Attack On Public Interest

January 31, 2016 Staff, corporateeurope.org Educate! Corporatism, Corruption, oligarchy, TTIP

By Staff of Corporate Europe Observatory. The ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, seek to bring rules on both sides of the Atlantic together by means of so-called regulatory cooperation. This part of the talks involves dismantling existing “regulatory barriers” and preventing new ones from emerging with public interest regulations having to go through lengthy procedures, including vetting by business for possible impacts on trade. It has sparked concerns that the trade deal will lead to attacks on environmental protections, safety at work regulations, and laws to defend public health and food safety– to name but a few. Our latest report finds that regulatory cooperation procedures have already been used to delay, water down and prevent legislation in the public interest. It thus confirms this critique.

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