Links from http://www.corporations.org/system/
If you don't know why corporate
power is a problem, here are some websites that will explain the concept.
Challenge Corporate Power, Asserting the People's Rights campaign of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. They have a full Corporate Power Study Curriculum and Organizing Packets.
Timeline of Corporate Rights vs. People's Rights (also from WILPF)
Know Thine Enemy - A Brief History of Corporations
A Call to Citizens: Real Populists Please Stand Up!
Third World Traveler - magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the corporate
media about the state of democracy in America
Corporate Control of American Democracy
Reclaim Democracy is dedicated to restoring democratic authority over corporations, reviving grassroots
democracy, and revoking the power of money and corporations to control government and civic society.
Aurora Institute - promotes an understanding of how the very structure of modern institutions directly
influences many of the social, economic and environmental problems we face in modern society.
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) and their Taking Care of Business booklet which started the modern anti-corporate movement, inspiring the groups
above and local groups like:
Ending Corporate Governance
Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
Study Reinforces Public Distrust of Corporations (Report on the Top 200 corporations from the Institute for Policy Studies)
Corporations Pages at GlobalIssues.org
Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights - book by Thom Hartmann
Corporate Welfare
Corporate Control of the Media
The Threat of Corporate Power
Corporate Control of the Government (Campaign Contributions to Politicians)
RACHEL's Environment & Health Weekly Table of Contents and Index
Read the RACHEL series on corporate power, economic trends
and political action in order:
308, 309, 316, 388, 396, 397, 409, 419, 421, 422, 426, 427, 433, 449, 451, 452, 455, 458, 459, 460, 461, 465, 488, 489
If you're up for more reading,
RACHELS's has published many articles on corporate power...
Corporate Power and the Corporate Charter Reform Movement
Corporations Are Externalizing Machines As Sharks Are Killing Machines (RACHEL's
#308)
New Strategy Focuses On Corporations (RACHEL's #309)
Clarification: Rights Of Corporations (RACHEL's #316)
The Corporation, Part 1 (RACHEL's #388)
The Corporation, Part 2: Assessing Business Impacts (RACHEL's #397)
The Corruption of our Democracy [Corporations] (RACHEL's #433)
Corporate Behavior (RACHEL's #449)
The Big Problems, Part 4: Controlling Corporations (RACHEL's #455 - charter
revocation)
Fixing Corporations, Part 1: Legacy of the Founding Parents (RACHEL's #488)
Fixing Corporations, Part 2: Corporations for the Seventh Generation (RACHEL's
#489)
Corporate Control of Government (campaign finance)
Money in Politics (RACHEL's #426)
Getting Money Out of Politics (RACHEL's #427)
Unfunded Mandates (RACHEL's #396)
Economic Trends
Economic Trends (RACHEL's #409)
Big-Picture Organizing, Part 2: Polluted Politics (RACHEL's #419 -- Contract
"with" America)
Big-Picture Organizing, Part 3: Response To The Republican Contract (RACHEL's
#421)
The Big Problems, Part 2: Positive Feedback (RACHEL's #451)
The Big Problems, Part 3: Corporate Danger (RACHEL's #452)
Mobilization: Coalition Building / Independent Politics
Ralph Nader's Democracy Toolbox, Part 1 (RACHEL's #348)
Ralph Nader's Democracy Toolbox, Part 2 (RACHEL's #349)
Speaking Truth To Power (organizing tactics) (RACHEL's #362)
A High-Wage, Low-Waste Future, Part 1 (RACHEL's #458)
A High-Wage, Low-Waste Future, Part 2: How Progressive People Can Unite
(RACHEL's #459)
A High-Wage, Low-Waste Future, Part 3: A Democracy Campaign? (RACHEL's #460)
A High-Wage, Low-Waste Future, Part 4: Sustainable America, Part 1 [economics]
(RACHEL's #461)
Sustainable America, Pt. 2 [economic development] (RACHEL's #465)
