Corporatism

Trade Agreements Reveal How Life Will Be Organized In 2050

December 8, 2013 Stan Sorscher, www.nanasilvergrim.cyberguerilla.org Educate! Corporatism, TPP

In simple terms, trade agreements are about trade — exports and imports. However, these trade agreements also serve as political, social, cultural and moral documents, which set political and social standards for countries and communities. These trade agreements regulate countries in the same way that our Constitution regulates Congress, our courts, the president, and our state governments. However, the substance — the values — in our Constitution are very different from values expressed in trade agreements. Our Constitution grants extensive political rights and social protections to people and communities. Our Constitution never mentions corporations — not once.

The Man From The North: Shopping As An Act Of Resistance

December 8, 2013 Rivera Sun, www.dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy

The holidays are at hand. Boycott Season is in effect. As the snow starts to fall, the commercial war of the season asserts its dominance. Our identities as citizens are quickly buried in a blizzard of advertising that defines us as consumers. We are occupied territory for the corporate regime. Our option is to resist. Across the nation, members of the Dandelion Insurrection are using the holiday season as an opportunity for active resistance. Due to corporate influence on politics, the struggle for effective political power has shifted out of offices and Congressional Halls and into the capitalistic marketplace. If we wish to undermine the strength of the corporations, we must look away from the corrupt seats of power where special interests are entrenched by campaign financing and lobbyists. Instead, we must look for the places where the corporations are vulnerable. We must study their blind spots and Achille’s heels.

The Lies Behind This Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal

December 7, 2013 George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corporatism, Government, TAFTA

No longer able to keep this process quiet, the European commission has instead devised a strategy for lying to us. A few days ago an internal document was leaked. This reveals that a "dedicated communications operation" is being "co-ordinated across the commission". It involves, to use the commission's chilling phrase, the "management of stakeholders, social media and transparency". Managing transparency should be adopted as its motto. The message is that the trade deal is about "delivering growth and jobs" and will not "undermine regulation and existing levels of protection in areas like health, safety and the environment". Just one problem: it's not true. From the outset, the transatlantic partnership has been driven by corporations and their lobby groups, who boast of being able to "co-write" it.

Killing People, Killing The Planet — WTO Found Guilty

December 7, 2013 Priadi Talman, Aditiajaya, Mae Buenaventura and Muhammad Reza, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Human Rights, WTO

To the chant of “guilty, guilty, guilty!”, a “peoples’ tribunal” indicted the World Trade Organization yesterday for the “systematic violation of human rights, massive destruction of livelihoods and the environment, privatization and commodification of the commons and the violation of international law”. The court specifically held to account and answer for widespread damages, private entities that Freeport Indonesia Ltd., PAM Lyonnais Jaya Ltd. and Aetra Air Jakarta Ltd., the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Donggi Senoro Liquid Natural Gas Ltd., Lafarge Cement Indonesia Ltd., Charoen Pokphand Indonesia Tbk., the mayor of Samarinda - Kalimantan, and corporations of coal and pesticides in Brebes, Central Java . It also decried “corporate impunity”, such that justice cannot be accessed in the current judicial system by grassroots people.

Global People’s Tribunal on WTO & Free Trade Agreements

December 6, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs, WTO

The Indictment A. We the Justices of the Global People’s Tribunal on WTO, Free Trade Agreements, Investments & Transnational Corporations, have heard the substantive testimonies of the affected communities and sectors, including women and children, peasants, fishers, workers, migrants and indigenous peoples in Indonesia, other Asian countries (India, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia), and other regions - Latin America, Canada. B. These testimonies have given evidence on: The systematic violation of human rights; The massive destruction of livelihoods and the environment; The privatization and commodification of the commons and of nature; The violation of international law. . . . I. We underline people’s inalienable right to justice. We acknowledge the importance of social movements and civil society organisations engagement in the campaigns to end corporate impunity, the WTO and the trade & investment regime. J. We recognize that the struggle of resistance goes hand in hand with the construction of alternatives of an economy for the people and the planet, with initiatives such as the indigenous knowledge systems, seed banks, food sovereignty, and a new paradigm for trade and investment, as well as a new juridical system that will deliver justice.

I Googled “Evil” And It Took Me to Google

December 5, 2013 David Swanson, www.warisacrime.org Educate! ALEC, Corporatism

Google may have been, until now, the Obama of hip internet monopolies. No matter how many nations the President bombs, people still put Obama peace-sign stickers on their cars. No matter how many radical rightwing initiatives Google funds, people still think it's a "progressive corporation" -- How could it not be? It's making progress! Google is funding Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union, and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation. And there's more really bad news: Google is funding ALEC, the powerful, secretive, and destructive lobbying force from which many companies concerned with their public images are fleeing.

Global Day of Action Targets ‘Toxic’ Trade Agreements

December 5, 2013 Cassidy Regan, www.therealnews.com Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Environment, Health Care, TPP

Activists in Baltimore and more than 30 cities across the world take action to highlight the failures of so called free trade agreements. On Tuesday December 3, activists from Baltimore and more than 30 cities across the U.S. and Mexico participated in a Global Day of Action against so-called “toxic trade agreements”. Called for by civil society in Indonesia as the World Trade Organization begins meetings in Bali, the events also precede negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) set to begin in Singapore on Dec. 7th. Meanwhile, thousands of Japanese farmers protested US Vice President Joseph Biden’s Tuesday visit to Tokyo, while hundreds marched in Bali’s Renon Square.

ALEC Protested In DC While Organization In Funding Crisis

December 5, 2013 Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Education, Environment, Worker Rights and Jobs

An influential US lobbying network of Republican politicians and big businesses is seeking to avert a looming funding crisis by appealing to major donors that have abandoned it over the past two years following criticism of its policy on gun laws. The Guardian has learned that by Alec's own reckoning the network has lost almost 400 state legislators from its membership over the past two years, as well as more than 60 corporations that form the core of its funding. In the first six months of this year it suffered a hole in its budget of more than a third of its projected income. The Guardian has learned that the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which shapes and promotes legislation at state level across the US, has identified more than 40 lapsed corporate members it wants to attract back into the fold under a scheme referred to in its documents as the "Prodigal Son Project".

Bhopal Disaster Survivors Ask for Apology, Thank Hammond

December 5, 2013 Rashida Bi, Nawab Khan,Balkrishna Namdeo, Satinath Sarangi, and Safreen Khan, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Corporatism, Environment, Health Care, Human Rights

The organizations led a rally of survivors of the disaster and those exposed to contaminated groundwater to the Union Carbide factory at the end of which they set an effigy of Dow Chemical on fire. The marchers carried picture of US hacker activist Jeremy Hammond, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, who exposed Dow Chemical’s snooping on Bhopal activists. The effigy, that of a corporate executive with horns and a forked tail, bore marks of damage caused to Dow Chemicals in India including the criminal case on bribery, the blacklisting of Dursban, the cancellation of the joint venture in Gujarat and the gutting down of its proposed R&D Centre at Chakan near Pune. Rashida Bee, who has lost 6 members of her family to the disaster and is the president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh said “The Presdient of United States must summon the courage to express remorse for the US Government’s financing of the world’s worst industrial disaster through the EXIM bank as revealed through Wikileaks documents.

Documents Reveal ALEC’s Looming Attacks on Environmental Regulations

December 5, 2013 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Fracking

The paper obtained ALEC's 2013 Annual Meeting Policy Report, which revealed that ALEC — dubbed a "corporate bill mill" for the statehouses by the Center for Media and Democracy — plans more attacks on clean energy laws, an onslaught of regulations pertaining to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and waging war against Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations. "Over the coming year, [ALEC] will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama's main channel for climate action," explained The Guardian. "Details of ALEC's strategy to block clean energy development at every stage, from the individual rooftop to the White House, are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week."

Message From Idle No More – Upcoming December Actions

December 5, 2013 Staff, www.idlenomore.ca Resist! Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Indigenous Rights

As Idle No More organizers prepare for a Dec 8th #INM1yr Webinar and a Dec 10th action in Ottawa against the FNEA, Indigenous land defenders are standing strong from Elsipogtog, to Barriere Lake, to Lubicon Lake. Read and watch these powerful messages and updates from Land Defenders, and keep a look-out for the launch of an Idle No More CrowdFunding Campaign and a series of actions throughout December. Hear from 3 members of Elsipogtog First Nation and read about the efforts to protect Barriere Lake, the lockdown on Line #9, the blockade in the Lubicon Nation and more.

Fast Food Giants Starve Workers’ Wages, Gorge on Taxpayers: Report

December 4, 2013 Jacob Chamberlain, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Worker Rights and Jobs

IPS reports, over the past two years, CEOs of the top six publicly held fast food chains brought home over $183 million in deductible "performance pay," which in turn reduced their companies' taxes by an estimated $64 million. As Sarah Anderson from IPS points out in an op-ed Monday, $64 million is enough to cover the average cost of food stamps for 40,000 American families for a year. Fast food profits, in this way, come at the taxpayer's expense from two sides: while CEOs' paychecks expand and corporations pay less in taxes, those companies have simultaneously worked "to keep low-level workers' wages so low that many must rely on public assistance." As another report from UC Berkeley recently showed, low-wage fast-food jobs currently cost the American public nearly $7 billion a year, as 52% of fast food workers, including those who work full-time, are payed so little they must rely on safety net programs including Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as Earned Income Tax Credit payments.

Call For Aid, Solidarity With Anti-Frackers In Romania

December 4, 2013 Mort, www.beforeitsnews.com Resist! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Government, Police abuse

After facing strong opposition from local community and from a strong national movement of support, Chevron had to scale down activities in Pungesti. Until last night, when the assault started at 5 AM! Police and CHEVRON joined forces to dismantle the local resistance group camped right on the field where Chevron plans to explore for shale gas. After 2 months of resistance, 40 people were beaten, arrested on their own land and taken to the nearest town for further investigations. The Spokesperson from the Jandarmerie cannot be reached, the media does not have access at the site, and the road to Pungesti is blocked by Chevron equipment and Police intervention cars. Children cannot go to school at this point. The road is also blocked for anyone else, the villagers cannot go to work, the press is kept kilometers away from Pungesti.

Chevron Resumes East Romanian Shale Gas Search

December 4, 2013 Staff, www.reuters.com Educate! Climate Change, Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Fracking

On Monday up to 300 riot police were in Pungesti, 340 km (210 miles) northeast of capital Bucharest, blocking a road and barring residents from the Chevron site, a spokeswoman told local television stations. Villagers have been taking turns guarding the site since October, sleeping in tents. They oppose the project and say they do not want what they say are the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking - the process of injecting water and chemicals at high pressure into shale formations to release the gas. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that Romania could potentially recover 51 trillion cubic feet of shale gas, which would cover domestic demand for more than a century.

Action By Indian Social Movements Inside WTO Meeting In Bali

December 3, 2013 Indian Social Movements, www.climate-connections.org Resist! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, WTO

However, the group cautioned the Indian negotiating team headed by Commerce Minister Mr. Anand Sharma, not to bow to any pressure to weaken India’s position on defending and upholding national food security as a sovereign right. The group declared that the safeguarding and promotion of the country’s food security, rural employment and livelihoods are non-negotiable, and that food security cannot be ensured without supporting agricultural production by small and marginal farmers. The group reminds the WTO members that no country needs to be on the defensive about protecting the right to food and fighting hunger in their countries. And that aggressively upholding the rights of its citizens is not tantamount to collapsing the ministerial talks. On the contrary, such pressure tactics must be exposed as a conspiracy to keep people hungry and poor.

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