Corporatism

The Moral Imperative Of Activism

August 13, 2013 Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Government, NSA, Wars and Militarism

This is our summer of discontent. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether that discontent will move us to action. Never in my lifetime have there been such serious challenges to whether the Republic established by the Founders will survive. Immediately after the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin told a questioner that the new structure created “a Republic, if you can keep it.” He was right, of course; it is up to us. So let’s face it. The Obama White House and its co-conspirators in Congress and the Judiciary have thrown the gauntlet down at our feet. It turned out that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified And Silenced – And What To Do About It

August 12, 2013 John Pilger, www.ohnpilger.com Educate! Corporatism, Government

I have known my postman for more than 20 years. Conscientious and good-humoured, he is the embodiment of public service at its best. The other day, I asked him, "Why are you standing in front of each door like a soldier on parade? "New system," he replied, "I am no longer required simply to post the letters through the door. I have to approach every door in a certain way and put the letters through in a certain way." "Why?" "Ask him." Across the street was a solemn young man, clipboard in hand, whose job was to stalk postmen and see they abided by the new rules, no doubt in preparation for privatisation.

Thousands March on ALEC Meeting In Chicago

August 9, 2013 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Resist! Corporatism, Gun Control, Trayvon Martin

As protesters gathered outside Alec's 40th annual gathering of lawmakers and corporate interests in Chicago, a new watchdog report finds that stand-your-ground laws of the sort forwarded by the group and made infamous by the Martin killing are still proliferating around the country. Last year, Alec came under intense criticism that its model stand-your-ground law, first adopted in Florida in 2005 having been drafted by the National Rifle Association, had prevented the arrest of George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter, and made his prosecution more difficult.

Video: Moral Monday Comes To Chicago To Protest ALEC

August 6, 2013 Staff, www.enewspf.com Organize! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Chicago Moral Monday Coalition, an alliance of Chicago clergy, lay people, unions and community organizations, has just taken over the lobby of the Palmer House Hilton, at 17 E. Monroe St., to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is slated to meet at the hotel this Wednesday for its 40th annual national conference. The Coalition is demanding that the Palmer House rescind its invitation to ALEC. Numerous Coalition members intend to risk arrest should the hotel not meet their demand, in order to raise awareness of the backroom deals ALEC makes with legislators, and demand ALEC be held accountable. A press conference will immediately follow the action, at the Monroe Street entrance.

Developing A Strategy For An Era Of Stalemate, Stagnation & Decay

August 6, 2013 Gar Alperovitz, www.truth-out.org Strategize! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Surveillance, Worker Rights and Jobs

It is difficult in the extreme for most people to grasp the possibility - embrace and understand fully the likelihood - that we may be entering a many-decades-long period in which the dominant reality is one of erratic growth, stagnation, commodity inflation, substantial political stalemate and decay. Progressives need to recalibrate our strategies to the likelihood of the context if a new era of political-economic change is to be forged in America. The challenge is extraordinary, but the options are definable.

8 Ways Privatization Has Failed America

August 6, 2013 Paul Buchheit, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

Some of America's leading news analysts are beginning to recognize the fallacy of the "free market." Said Ted Koppel, "We are privatizing ourselves into one disaster after another."Fareed Zakaria admitted, "I am a big fan of the free market...But precisely because it is so powerful, in places where it doesn't work well, it can cause huge distortions." They're right. A little analysis reveals that privatization doesn't seem to work in any of the areas vital to the American public. As summed up by US News, "Private industry is not going to step in and save people from drowning, or help them rebuild their homes without a solid profit." In order to stay afloat as a nation we need each other, not savvy businesspeople who presume to tell us all how to be rich. We can't all be rich. We just want to keep from drowning.

District Court To Summon Dow Chemical In Bhopal Disaster Criminal Case

August 5, 2013 Reena Shadaan, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons

Leaders of the five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today welcomed the decision of the District Court to summon Dow Chemical, USA in the ongoing criminal case on the world’s worst industrial disaster in December 1984. The organizations said the decision is a significant step towards establishing the criminal liability of Union Carbide, USA for the tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands injured due to leak of poisonous gases. “Union Carbide, USA has been absconding from charges of manslaughter and other serious offences for the last 21 years. Today’s decision is the beginning of the end of their running away.” said Rachna Dhingra whose organization. the Bhopal Group for Information and Action had moved the application for summoning Dow Chemical in February 2004.

The Business of Mass Incarceration

August 4, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Government, Human Rights

Prisoners often work inside jails and prisons for nothing or at most earn a dollar an hour. The court system has been gutted to deny the poor adequate legal representation. Draconian drug laws send nonviolent offenders to jail for staggering periods of time. Our prisons routinely use solitary confinement, forms of humiliation and physical abuse to keep prisoners broken and compliant, methods that international human rights organizations have long defined as torture. Individuals and corporations that profit from prisons in the United States perpetuate a form of neoslavery.

Living In America Will Drive You Insane — Literally

August 4, 2013 Bruce E. Levine, www.alternet.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights

A June 2013 Gallup poll revealed that 70% of Americans hate their jobs or have “checked out” of them. Life may or may not suck any more than it did a generation ago, but our belief in “progress” has increased expectations that life should be more satisfying, resulting in mass disappointment. For many of us, society has become increasingly alienating, isolating and insane, and earning a buck means more degrees, compliance, ass-kissing, shit-eating, and inauthenticity. So, we want to rebel. However, many of us feel hopeless about the possibility of either our own escape from societal oppression or that political activism can create societal change. So, many of us, especially young Americans, rebel by what is commonly called mental illness.

Debranding Movement Takes On Consumerism

August 3, 2013 Sarah Mosko, www.popularresistance.org Create! Corporatism

It is meant for branding not new things but things that already exist, like on an old plain T-shirt or over any brand logo that has otherwise lost its cool. Unlike brand logos which are meant to convey exclusivity, Mr. Cart is the opposite of exclusive because, through a Creative Common license, anyone can use it to repurpose anything they want. Such forms of anti-consumerism debranding are not to be confused with an obfuscated form of debranding being employed by corporate giants to impart less of a corporate feel to their products and services. Their idea is that a brand or logo loses exclusivity and cool when the market becomes saturated with the product or service. To seem less in-your-face and pushy, Nike has dropped its name from its logo, using just the swoosh. Starbucks is trialing the same strategy on drink cups which show only the siren.

Stamp Money Out Of Politics

August 3, 2013 Staff, http://www.stampstampede.org/ Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government

Stamp Money Out of Politics is a campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to end the rule of money. From protests, to ballot initiatives, to support in congress, the movement to amend the constitution is gathering momentum rapidly. They note that We're over 25% of the way to an amendment, with 16 states having voted for an amendment and 150 Members of Congress already supporting it. Their tactic of the Stampede is for tens of thousands of Americans to legally stamp messages on U.S. currency to Get Money Out of Politics. As more and more stamped money spreads, so will the movement to amend the Constitution. Every dollar you stamp will reach 875 people, if you stamp 5 dollars a day for a year, that's over a million. Together, we can create a stampede that Congress can't ignore.

Leaked Stratfor Powerpoint Shows Corporation’s Fear Of Activist Campaigns

August 3, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Strategize! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Tar Sands

If you ever doubted that activists have an impact on big business interests, this leaked Stratfor document should convince you that they take us very seriously. The document focuses on protesters trying to stop the extraction, transport and development of tar sands, which they call oil sands. They divide the various groups involved in the effort to stop tar sands into four categories, radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists. As we can see in a previous article their strategic approach is to divide these groups, pull opportunists and realists into compromised positions, convince idealists they have the facts wrong and isolate the most dangerous group, the radicals.

Monsanto Gearing Up For War Against Food Justice Activists?

July 30, 2013 Staff, www.politicalblindspot.com Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

The largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi“) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it. Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of “public disclosure” of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater.” It is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism.

Troika Demands Privatization Of Greek Assets, Workers Push Back

July 25, 2013 Pablo Sanchez, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture

As part of the agreement between the Greek government and the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) to receive funding, the Greek coalition government has agreed to privatise a large number of assets. These include the water companies of Thessaloniki and Athens. The workers of these companies and many local groups are opposed. In Thessaloniki that opposition also includes the municipalities, currently owners of the company. The European and international organisations support the local groups in their struggle for a publicly owned and run company. Several of the Greek, European and international organisations represent networks of groups making the action very broad based.

“A Bag Full Of Cash”: The Root Of The Corrupt US Government

July 22, 2013 Carl Gibson, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Government, Worker Rights and Jobs

Shut the Chamber's new 28-page report, "Bagful of Cash: How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Orchestrated a Corporate Takeover of Government." My goal when writing the report was to publish a one-stop-shop for everything relating to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's domination of all institutions of merit, from Congress to the courts, to the election cycles. This report also shows how the U.S. Chamber has invested millions of corporate dollars into opposing all legislation relating to healthcare, financial reform, closing corporate tax loopholes, and climate change. The report also highlights the U.S. Chamber's support of austerity, fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, and mostly Republican pro-corporate candidates running for Congress.

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