Corporatism

Will Bangladesh’s New Labor Law Prevent Another Rana Plaza?

July 18, 2013 Rebecca Lee Sanchez, www.globalpost.com Create! Corporatism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Cornered by domestic and international pressure following April’s collapse of the Rana Plaza building and other tragedies, the Bangladeshi parliament ratified changes to the Labor Act on Monday, Reuters reported. Revisions consist of 87 amendments to the original 2006 Labor Law, which allowed factory owners to veto the creation of unions, but the International Labour Organization said the law still does not do enough to protect workers rights and conditions, or prevent tragedies — and many activists agree. “It appears that the government is amending the law under foreign pressure, not in the interest of the workers,” Rashed Khan Menon, president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh told the Dhaka Tribune. “To me, the law doesn’t reflect the interest of the workers.”

Teach For America’s Civil War

July 16, 2013 James Cersonsky, www.prospect.org Organize! Corporatism, Education

Twenty-four years running, the rap on Teach for America (TFA) is a sampled, re-sampled, burned-out record: The organization’s five-week training program is too short to prepare its recruits to teach, especially in chronically under-served urban and rural districts; corps members only have to commit to teach for two years, which destabilizes schools, undermines the teaching profession, and undercuts teachers unions; and TFA, with the help of its 501(c)4 spin-off, Leadership for Educational Equity, is a leading force in the movement to close “failing” schools, expand charter schools, and tie teachers’ job security to their students’ standardized test scores. Critics burn TFA in internet-effigy across the universe of teacher listservs and labor-friendly blogs. Last July, it earned Onion fame: an op-ed entitled “My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids,” followed by a student’s take, “Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?”

Incarceration Up, Education Down: America’s Cannibalistic Profiteering

July 15, 2013 Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Education

America incarcerates more of it’s citizens than any other country in the world. With only 5% of the world population, America has more than 25% of the world’s prisoners. The steep incline in the number of Americans incarcerated began in 1980. Since that time the number of Americans incarcerated has jumped from under 500,000 people to close to 2,500,000. The advent of private prisons during that time has created a powerful lobby, on behalf of its Wall Street investors, to lengthen sentences. Longer sentences means more prisoners. More prisoners means more prisons. More prisoners, and more prisons, means more profit. At the same time education became more of a business than a public service with negative effects on students. America needs to set its priorities and govern its public interests without the corruption of corporate involvement. Public services and programs must be managed by, of, and for the people in order to maintain and protect their integrity.

Misery of the Neoliberal Order Fuels Global Unrest

July 13, 2013 Mandeep Tiwana, http://www.aljazeera.com/ Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights

Neo-liberalism, using a dictionary definition, as a "modern politico-economic theory favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention, reduced public expenditure on social services etc.," reduces the responsibility of the state while promoting privatisation to favour those with access to resources and influence. It is playing havoc with the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people. Despite mainstream perceptions, the sad reality is that free markets don't automatically regulate themselves nor do they naturally respect individual or community rights. With greater numbers of people taking to the streets to voice their dissatisfaction against corruption, environmental degradation and top down austerity policies, decision makers have a reality check staring them in the face. But will they right the ship on neo-liberal economic policies when they are privately profiting from it?

We Can Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership

July 11, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Human Rights, Solidarity, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

We are in the midst of an epic battle between the people of the world and transnational corporations. Wealthy governments and corporations are merging in a global system in which private corporations have absolute power over your life. This is a battle the people can win and when we do it will show that we can defeat corporate power on issue after issue. The Obama administration is currently mired in an ambitious project to accomplish both the continuation of the WTO’s agenda and a restructuring of NAFTA in ways that place corporate property rights over protection of people and the environment. Former US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who now has a lucrative job in the private sector advising transnational corporations for the law firm Gibson Dunn, told one interviewer, if the text were made public negotiators would be walking away from the negotiations because they would be very unpopular.

Are Corporations Distracting Us with Social Issues While They Control Economy?

July 8, 2013 R J Eskow, www.alternet.org Educate! Corporatism

How do right-leaning Democrats like Obama and the Clintons maintain the loyalty of the Democratic and liberal base? They seem to have learned a thing or two from Republicans. While their social stance lacks the “anti-elite” aura of their conservative counterparts – something which might force them closer to genuinely populist positions – they have certainly learned how to use issues like gay marriage and reproductive rights to win liberal hearts and minds, while at the same time pursuing conservative economic policies. Gay marriage had been somewhat problematic for these Dems. The political calculus of the last two decades, at least as they understood it, demanded that they distance themselves from the issue. It would have taken courage for a politician to support the idea 15, or 10, or even five years ago.

VIDEO: Lee Camp on Breaking Out of the Fishbowl

July 6, 2013 Lee Camp, www.youtube.com Educate! Corporatism

Comedian Lee Camp writes: We're in the middle of something very serious - the wholesale buyout of everything we've created. Are we capable of stopping it?

The Free-Trade Charade

July 5, 2013 Joseph Stiglitz, www.project-syndicate.org Educate! Corporatism, TPP

If negotiators created a genuine free-trade regime that put the public interest first, with the views of ordinary citizens given at least as much weight as those of corporate lobbyists, I might be optimistic that what would emerge would strengthen the economy and improve social well-being. The reality, however, is that we have a managed trade regime that puts corporate interests first, and a process of negotiations that is undemocratic and non-transparent. The likelihood that what emerges from the coming talks will serve ordinary Americans’ interests is low; the outlook for ordinary citizens in other countries is even bleaker.

Irish Bankers Laugh About Never Repaying Bailout

July 5, 2013 Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy

So you've got the Anglo Irish executives, and their plot is: we need a number big enough that it's scary about how much of a public bailout we need, but not so big that it'll be obvious that it would be insane to bail us out. So they came up with a number in the EUR 7-10 billion--so that's, you know, more like, at that time, $16-17 billion to put in initially, with, again, no due diligence and no understanding of the fact that--how big a cesspool Anglo Irish was. And one of the Anglo Irish Bank execs is asking the other, where'd you come up with this number? And he says, well, I followed the policy of our CEO and I just pulled it out of our arse.

Independence from Corporate Terror and the Petrostate

July 5, 2013 Subhankar Banerjee, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy

Democrats are scared that if the Republicans take over the government all hope of climate change legislation would be doomed. Bill McKibben wrote earlier this year on TomDispatch: “The movement is what matters; the Democrats are, at best, the eventual vehicle for closing the deal.” This too is hiding the truth and is an illusion (more below). A climate movement that is a mirror image of MoveOn.org is not honest and will not succeed. What I just discussed is the political reason why ‘supporters cheer’ and ‘apologists veer,’ but there is a larger insidious reason, and it is—sociological. It is easy to criticize the other. It is much more difficult to criticize one’s own.

What the Flag Means To Me

July 4, 2013 S. Brian Willson, www.brianwillson.com Educate! Corporatism, Wars and Militarism

I know that my opinions being expressed here will not be popular, even among some of my closest friends. But I cannot ignore the reality as I now understand it. I believe we are living one of the most incredible lies in history, covered over by one of the most successful campaigns of public rhetoric, ignoring empirical reality. It is truly amazing! I hope that one day we will end our willful ignorance and be able to see our transgressions, and beg, on our knees, for forgiveness, and then wail as we begin to feel the incredible pain and anguish we have caused the world as well as our own bodies, minds, souls, and culture.

Oli Garch Applauds Monsanto’s Role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership

July 4, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture

Access to food is a basic human right. Instead, TPP expands the notion that food is just another commodity subject to economic speculation and exploitation solely to increase the profits of multinational corporations. TPP promotes export-oriented food production, its passage will increase global hunger and malnutrition, alienate millions from their productive assets and resources; land, water, fish, seeds, technology and generations of cultural knowledge. In order to guarantee the independence and food sovereignty of all of the world’s peoples, it is essential that food is produced though diversified, community based production systems.

Bhopal Chemical Disaster Victims Suffer Setback: “Travesty of Justice”

July 1, 2013 Rachna Dingra, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Environment, Human Rights

Five Bhopal based organizations active on the issue of ongoing toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal today condemned the recent decision of the US Federal court that dismissed an appeal filed by a group of plaintiffs last year. The organizations said that that the decision of the Appellate court was a gross miscarriage of justice as it deliberately ignored the documentary evidence presented in court in the last nine years. The organizations said that they would now persuade the Indian government, owner of the contaminated lands, to intervene in the case pending before the US court.

ANNOUNCING: Action Campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 30, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Worker Rights and Jobs

FlushTheTPP.org is an action campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). We invite you to join us. In order to stop the TPP we need to act quickly and in solidarity with people in other countries. This massive trade agreement is a high priority for transnational corporations, and they are working fast to make it law.The TPP affects many issues, including worker’s rights and wages, environmental collapse and climate change, sovereignty of nations and democratic rule of law, Internet freedom and online creativity, food safety and agriculture, healthcare and financial regulation (including controls over the flow of capital), and much more. For a quick overview of some of the issues, click through the slides on our home page.

Impunity Inc: Reflections on the “Super Rights” and “Super Powers” of Corporate Capital

June 30, 2013 Observatory On Debt in Globalisation and TransNational Institute, www.stopcorporateimpunity.org Create! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

“We are faced by a direct confrontation between the large transnational corporations and the states. The corporations are interfering in the fundamental political, economic and military decisions of the states. The corporations are global organizations that do not depend on any state and whose activities are not controlled by, nor are they accountable to any parliament or any other institution representative of the collective interest. In short, all the world political structure is being undermined. The large transnational firms are prejudicial to the genuine interests of the developing countries and their dominating and uncontrolled action is also carried out in the industrialized countries, where they are based. This has recently been denounced in Europe and in the United States and resulted in a US Senate investigation. The developed nations are just as threatened by this danger as the underdeveloped ones.

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