Corporatism

International Journalists Release Offshore Database Revealing Names Behind Secret Companies, Trusts

June 18, 2013 Marina Walker Guevara, www.publicintegrity.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Whistleblowers

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishes today a database that, for the first time in history, will help begin to strip away this secrecy across 10 offshore jurisdictions. The Offshore Leaks Database allows users to search through more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore locales such as the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands and Singapore. The Offshore Leaks web app, developed by La Nación newspaper in Costa Rica for ICIJ, displays graphic visualizations of offshore entities and the networks around them, including, when possible, the company’s true owners.

More From Shadow Cabinet on TPP: More Corporate, Less Human Rights

June 18, 2013 Staff, www.greenshadowcabinet.us Educate! Corporatism, Human Rights, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

On June 17th, the Green Shadow Cabinet joined the national resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Each day of this week, Cabinet members are sharing in specific detail why they, and people they represent, oppose the TPP. Please see below for statements by Ajamu Baraka on Human Rights, Lee Camp the impact on you, Sarah Mansk bad for small business, and Richard McIntyre on secrecy and corporate power. This is part of the continuing campaign by the Green Shadow Cabinet to stop the TPP.

Vancouver Protests Demand “End to Silence” on TPP

June 17, 2013 Kristen Beifus and Stuart Trew, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, TPP

Negotiators from 11 Pacific Rim countries met quietly in Vancouver this weekend to set new investment rules within the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). No announcement of this “intersessional” on investment was made to the public or the media. People in Canada first learned about this TPP ‘mini’ negotiation from an article in the Peruvian media Friday. It was later confirmed by iPolitics.ca with no other details and has since been acknowledged by the federal government in a brief statement concluding the intersessional talks. “It’s long past time to end the silence on the TPP,” says Kristen Beifus of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. “It’s outrageous that this investor rights treaty is being developed behind closed doors. What they are negotiating will impact all of us, just as NAFTA has for 20 years, and we deserve to know what is being negotiated in our name.”

Green Shadow Cabinet Joins Critical Struggle to Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 17, 2013 Staff, www.greenshadowcabinet.us Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Human Rights, Solidarity, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us as taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.

On 30th Anniversary, Campaign for Justice in Bhopal N.A. Calls for Solidarity

June 17, 2013 Reena Shadaan, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Health Care, Human Rights

It will soon be three decades since the people of Bhopal were exposed to 40 tons of methyl isocyanate and other undisclosed chemical gases due to the negligence of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now owned by the Dow Chemical Company. When Dow purchased UCC, they inherited UCCs legal liabilities; however, Dow denies all responsibility for the disaster. This is despite their accepting UCCs outstanding liabilities in the U.S. This is a clear example of corporate double standards. The disaster, which has claimed over 25,000 lives to date, currently affects over 500,000.

Advertising: Are You Buying It?

June 16, 2013 Sarah (Steve) Mosko, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism

Here’s an inescapable reality: There are only two ways to be rich – make more or want less. This is known as “Rimo’s Rule,” though that’s beside the point. Rather, the point here is to recognize, in our consumer-based, advertising-saturated society, how very hard it is to want less materially yet why we must to do so anyway. While it’s intuitive that most people – both the “99 percent” and the “1 percent” – could achieve greater contentment in life by better appreciating the non-material and material riches they already have, there are far-reaching, global consequences of which path to richness a society as a whole chooses.

Fearless Summer: Tree Sit to Block Clear Cutting

June 15, 2013 Staff, ww.forestdefensenow.com Resist! Corporatism, Environment

Tree sitters, blockaders, and the support crew have found their new home near the head waters of Myrtle Creek on O&C land in the White Castle timber sale. They are defending 77 acres of native never-before-logged forest from Variable Retention Harvest, also known as clear-cutting. As Doug Heiken of Oregon Wild describes "The White Castle project is a cynical attempt to pass off clear-cutting century-old trees as restoration. In reality, the true focus of this project is providing cheap timber to old-growth dependent logging mills at taxpayer expense." The White Castle timber sale contains lush native and old growth trees punctuated by flowering rhododendrons, trilliums, and wild iris amongst salal and Oregon grape. It is considered habitat for 5 pairs of endangered spotted owls, three fens and rare forest wetlands.

Complaints Inside, Arrests Outside Facebook Shareholders Meeting

June 15, 2013 Staff, www.indybay.org Resist! Corporatism, Environment

Nonviolent civil disobedience resulted in arrests at the San Francisco Westin Hotel on June 11, 2013. At Facebook’s first shareholders meeting since going public last year, environmentalists protested Mark Zuckerberg’s support of the XL Pipeline. Inside the hotel, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg faced complaints from shareholders worried that the value of their investment shows little sign of recovering. While investors are unhappy that the profits aren't rolling in as they had hoped, serious business was going on outside the Westin Hotel in Millbrae on Tuesday. On the street protesters demanded that Zuckerberg refrain from bankrolling any more pro-fossil fuel industry Keystone XL and drilling ads.

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Former Employees Say

June 15, 2013 Paul Kiel, www.propublica.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing

Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure, according to sworn statements by former bank employees. The employee statements were filed late last week in federal court in Boston as part of a multi-state class action suit brought on behalf of homeowners who sought to avoid foreclosure through the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program but say they had their cases botched by Bank of America.

99 Pickets and Others Protest Big Box Store

June 15, 2013 99 Pickets Lines, www.interoccupy.net Organize! Corporatism, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

99 Pickets Statement: We stand in solidarity with the workers of Bangladesh and are outraged over the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building, which has killed more than 1,100 garment workers. This follows the fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory last year where more than 100 Bangladeshi workers lost their lives. Fortunately, there is a meaningful, verifiable way to improve the atrocious conditions in Bangaldesh garment factories: the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. To get involved with future 99 Pickets Bangladesh solidarity action and other worker rights struggles, text “@pickets” to 23559.

Pentagon Bracing for Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shocks

June 14, 2013 Nafeez Ahmed, www.guardian.co.uk Organize! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Wars and Militarism

Why have Western security agencies developed such an unprecedented capacity to spy on their own domestic populations? Since the 2008 economic crash, security agencies have increasingly spied on political activists, especially environmental groups, on behalf of corporate interests. This activity is linked to the last decade of US defence planning, which has been increasingly concerned by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events linked to climate change, energy shocks or economic crisis - or all three. . . The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years.

Getting Corporations Out of Our Food: Mobilizing for Food and Farm Justice

June 14, 2013 Tory Field and Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Corporatism, Environment, Food and Agriculture

From the school cafeteria to rural tomato farms, and all the way to pickets at the White House, people are challenging the ways in which government programs benefit big agribusiness to the detriment of small- and mid-sized farmers. Urban gardeners, PTA parents, ranchers, food coops, and a host of others are organizing to make the policies that govern our food and agricultural systems more just, accountable, and transparent. They are spearheading alternative policies on the local, state, national, and international levels. Despite the activism on the most recent Farm Bill, it was allowed to expire at the end of 2012 due to a stalemate in Congress around payments to farmers and broader budget issues. Congress implemented a nine-month extension, but several important programs were de-funded, including support for new farmers and farmers of color, conservation efforts, research into organic farming, and other progressive initiatives.

Yes Men Mourn Lawsuit Withdrawal

June 13, 2013 The Yes Men, www.yeslab.org Resist! Corporatism

As Eric Holencolon said, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is withdrawing their lawsuit against us just as it was about to start heading to trial. This is a great victory for us, but we are also very sad about it. We’re suffering from lawsuit withdrawal. After all, this was the first and only time in 17 years of Yes Mennery that anyone has been muttonheaded enough to sue us. If this lawsuit had gone to trial, we would have had the right to do our own investigation. With the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Davis Wright Tremaine, who provided fantastic legal assistance throughout this case, we would have been able to look into the U.S. Chamber’s finances, and to learn how they manage to be the most heavily funded lobbying organization in the world, with $400K /day to support corporate rule without limits.

Fearless Summer of EPIC Protests Taking Shape

June 13, 2013 Staff, http://wearefearlesssummer.tumblr.com/ Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Solidarity

This spring has already featured a slew of bold actions across the county and there’s no sign of it slowing down. We’ve created a movement calendar and, as you can see, this is going to be a bold and busy summer of action! This summer will be moving non-stop with regional convergences, training camps, and focused direct actions all over the continent targeting extreme energy. By embracing a common message that elevates the voices of those most impacted and rejects all forms of dirty energy extraction, each of these actions can become more powerful. To call attention to our new unity and collective power, we are calling for the first week of coordinated action against extreme energy on June 24th-29th. Weeks of action will be flashpoints that will build momentum and solidarity throughout the long, hot summer and push our message of fearless, united resistance into the national conversation.

U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Interests”

June 13, 2013 Carey L. Biron, www.ipsnews.net Educate! Corporatism, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Government

“[The U.S.] regulatory system is frequently subject to undue influence from regulated industries during the development and review of standards and rules,” a new CSS report, released Tuesday, states. That system “is not as responsive in the face of new knowledge and new risks as the … public has a right to expect. Instead, it is plagued by a number of problems that make it difficult for federal regulatory agencies to react to identifiable hazards in a timely, proactive fashion.” CSS is an umbrella of nearly 150 state and national business, labour, science, health, advocacy and environment groups. Nearly four decades after U.S. public interest regulation began in earnest – covering issues such as public health, safety and the environment – the report points to a slew of regulations that have already been approved by legislators but currently remain mired in judicial or executive approval processes.

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