Corporatism

Human Rights Watch: Arm Of US Government & Wall Street?

February 12, 2014 Keane Bhatt, www.nacla.org Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Democracy, Wars and Militarism

Over more than a decade, the rise of the left in Latin American governance has led to remarkable advances in poverty alleviation, regional integration, and a reassertion of sovereignty and independence. The United States has been antagonistic toward the new left governments, and has concurrently pursued a bellicose foreign policy, in many cases blithely dismissive of international law. So why has Human Rights Watch (HRW)—despite proclaiming itself “one of the world’s leading independent organizations” on human rights—so consistently paralleled U.S. positions and policies? This affinity for the U.S. government agenda is not limited to Latin America. In the summer of 2013, for example, when the prospect of a unilateral U.S. missile strike on Syria—a clear violation of the UN Charter—loomed large, HRW’s executive director Kenneth Roth speculated as to whether a simply “symbolic” bombing would be sufficient.

A New Kind Of Corporate Charter For Public Benefit

February 12, 2014 Pooja Bahatia, www.ozy.com Create! Corporatism, Reform

That bedrock principle of corporate law was a turnoff for companies like Etsy, Warby Parker, Seventh Generation and other social enterprises. It all but mandated a trade-off between issuing the public shares often needed to scale, on the one hand, and staying true to mission, on the other. In other words, corporations could be good, or they could grow, but they couldn’t do both. Enter the benefit corporation, whose structure would let corporations have their cake and eat it too. Delaware’s legislation, for instance, protects corporations from suits by profit-mad shareholders. Indeed, shareholders with at least 2 percent of shares can sue the corporation for failing to optimize its social mission. As more companies sign on, the B Corp movement has the potential to subvert an entire century of corporate law.

Maryland Rallies To Overturn Citizens United

February 12, 2014 Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy

On February 11, dozens rallied at the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis to demand limits on corporate spending and for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. The 2010 Supreme Court decision found corporations and unions have the same free speech rights as people, and removed restrictions on their spendings on elections. This year, the decision's impact will fully be felt across the country in local elections in states like Maryland. Almost every state is in some phase of organizing. There are 42 states with a team soon all 50 will be active. At least ten states have live resolutions in the state legislatures. California is one step away from being the first state to make a convention call.

Explosion At Fracking Well Sparks Fire To Rage For Days

February 12, 2014 Andrea Germanos, www.CommonDreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Fracking

According to a statement from well operator Chevron, the fire broke out at approximately 6:45 Tuesday morning at their well in Dunkard Township in Greene County, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. "We're being told ... the site itself, that fire, will not be contained and we will not have access to that property for at least a few days," Trooper Stefani Plume said at a press conference. Complicating the fire, which continued to burn into the afternoon, was the fact that a propane-holding truck was on the well pad and also exploded. Responding to the incident on Twitter, some environmental voices said the explosion was further evidence fracking should be banned.

Video: The Economics of the 1% (part 1/3)

February 11, 2014 Jaisal Noor www.therealnews.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Government

This is the first part of a three-part discussion on a new book titledEconomics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy. The author of the book is John Weeks. He's a professor emeritus at the University of London.

Russia Jails Environmentalists at Sochi

February 11, 2014 John Upton, Grist.org Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, Environment, Freedom of Speech and Assembly

Yevgeny Vitishko is missing today’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Olympics ceremonies are stunningly dull, so that part of the story doesn’t matter too much. What does matter is that Vitishko is an ecologist and activist who planned to publish a report detailing environmental damage caused by Olympic construction — but that won’t be possible any more, because he’s sitting in a Russian jail cell. His alleged crime? Swearing in public.

Teach For America’s Pro-Corporate Union-Busting Agenda

February 11, 2014 Chad Sommer, www.salon.com Educate! Corporatism, Education, Worker Rights and Jobs

"When I joined Teach For America in the spring of 2011 I had no idea that my belief in social and economic justice was about to be cynically exploited by the corporate class. As a former development manager for a nonprofit that serves low-income Chicago public school students, TFA’s claims that its corps members and alumni are helping lead an educational revolution in low-income communities across the country spoke to me. Naively seduced by TFA’s do-gooder marketing pitch, I charged ahead on a mission to close the academic “ achievement gap” that TFA blames on incompetent (read unionized) teachers. Today, having completed the two-year program and seeing how it operates from the inside, I’m convinced that TFA now serves as a critical component of the all-out-effort by corporate elites to privatize one of the last remaining public institutions of our country: our public schools."

Dow Sues Activists In India Over Bhopal Protest

February 10, 2014 Justin King, www.digitaljournal.com Educate! Bhopal, Corporatism, Health Care

Dow has filed its fourth lawsuit against activists in India that are seeking compensation for the 1984 gas leak at a Union Carbide Corporation facility in Bhopal. The Bhopal disaster killed 15,000 and affected an additional 500,000 in 1984. The plant leaked Methyl isocyanate, which has contaminated the area, including the ground water. Since 1984, activists worldwide have sought to obtain what they feel is suitable compensation and rehabilitation for the deaths and disability caused by the leak. 30 years later, the site is still contaminated. This year, in an attempt to bring more attention to the situation, Harvard students launched a year-long relay fast. Participants in the fast each abstain from eating for 24 hours, and then hand the fast off to another participant.

Oil Industry Pays Teachers To Educate About Drilling

February 10, 2014 Peter Moskowitz, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! Corporatism, Education, Environment, Fracking

"An Ohio association funded by oil and gas drillers has been paying for teacher-training seminars in which industry-funded representatives demonstrate how students can learn about oil and gas extraction in fun ways, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported. Environmentalists said Saturday that the program, being conducted by the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP), is an interference in the state’s public education system by an industry that has come under increasing scrutiny over practices including hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The seminars, which are held around the state, show teachers how to use props such as Twinkies to demonstrate how gas drilling works: Teachers are instructed to ask students to think of the cream in the Twinkie as oil, and a straw to demonstrate how gas drillers find their target."

Rosia Montana: Community Vs Corporation In Court

February 9, 2014 Save Rosia Montana, www.indiegogo.com Organize! Corporatism, Environment, Mining

Roșia Montană has been inhabited and traditionally mined for gold even before the Roman Empire got a foot into nowadays Transylvania. It's located in picturesque valley in the Western Carpathian Mountains, but could be blown away and drowned in cyanide if the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) gets its environmental license. The local community has been putting up a resistance for the past 14 years, fighting governmental corruption in the court of law (and winning). Indeed, many governments have changed since RMGC got its initial mining license in 1995, but none of them had the interest to cherish the area. Regardless of their political alignment, they all seemed to agree that gold is worth much more than life.

Union Rule Despised By Right-Wingers Now Roaring Back To Life

February 8, 2014 Josh Eidelson, http://www.salon.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Worker Rights and Jobs

"By changing how challenges to voter eligibility are handled, the proposed rule change has the potential to shorten the period between when non-union workers petition for a government-supervised election to win union recognition, and the date when the election actually takes place[…] Unions have long charged that the NLRB election process is riddled with opportunities for employers to delay, gerrymander and intimidate workers – concerns that have led some unions to largely abandon the process in favor of pressure campaigns to compel companies to agree to alternative paths to union recognitions. Organized labor hoped that by reducing the period of time between petitioning for an election and holding one, the rule change would at least marginally reduce the amount of legal or illegal pressure workers could be subjected to. According to research by Cornell scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner, in the lead-up to at least two-thirds of NLRB elections, employers forced workers to attend one-one-one, mandatory anti-union meetings with management at least once a week."

New Evidence In Case Against Union Carbide

February 8, 2014 Reena Shadaan, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Bhopal, Corporatism

January 29, 2014, New York: Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp. released new evidence that demonstrates the chemical company’s direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, that caused the world’s worst modern industrial disaster and continues to pollute residents’ water with toxins. Union Carbide, now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, refuses to clean up the site, claiming that its former Indian subsidiary bears sole responsibility. The victims have recently also sued the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, (which leased the land on which the Bhopal plant was built), for the purpose of permitting cleanup of the contaminated site which has polluted the drinking water supply of nearby residential areas.

VIDEO: Massive Resistance Building to Stop KXL

February 7, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Government, Indigenous Rights, Occupy, Tar Sands

Last week, the State Department has released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed northern leg of the controversial and long-embattled TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. As Steve Horn, of DeSmog Blog notes: “In a familiar “Friday trash dump” — a move many expected the Obama administration to shun — John Kerry’s State Department chose to “carefully stage-manage the report’s release” on Super Bowl Friday when most Americans are switching focus to football instead of political scandals.” Even with the Super Bowl weekend serving as a distraction, over 200 events took place from coast to coast the day after the Super Bowl aimed at sending a message to President Obama, that – according to 350.org: “it’s time for President Obama to be a climate champion, not the pipeline president, and reject Keystone XL. Standing together, we can be heard.”

VIDEO: What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Can Teach Us About Climate Change (Really)

February 6, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Government

For the State Department to suggest that the Keystone XL pipeline will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White telling Phillip Seymour Hoffman that heroin is as healthy as kale. If one reads the Obama administration State Department’s Final Environmental Study on the KXL pipeline it is almost as if the State department subcontracted the study to a company with vast financial ties to the oil and gas industry. Actually, that turns out to be true. Andy Kroll, reporting for Mother Jones in May of 2013 put it this way:

Obama’s SOTU Tax Proposal Not That Great

February 3, 2014 Staff, www.ctj.org Educate! Corporatism, Taxes

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: A lot of the corporations doing business in the U.S. already are paying little or nothing in taxes, as demonstrated by CTJ’s 2011 study of consistently profitable Fortune 500 corporations – a study that examined the U.S. taxes paid on the corporations’ U.S. profits. Even for those companies that do pay a reasonable effective tax rate in the U.S., there is no real economic evidence that lowering their tax rate will lead to economic growth for America. In fact, the U.S. corporate tax is far lighter than the corporate taxes imposed by other countries. According to the Department of the Treasury and the Congressional Budget Office, federal corporate tax revenue in the U.S. was equal to 1.2 percent of our economy in 2011 (1.5 percent if you include state corporate taxes). The average for other OECD countries (which include most of the developed countries) in 2011 was 2.9 percent.

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