In the early days of the Community Rights movement, most of the envisioned legal strategies to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called "rights" were state-focused. This legal brief - written by Richard L. Grossman, Thomas Linzey, Esq., and Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., Esq - is an example of that strategy, and was published in 2003. Preface: This Brief [...]
An original essay by Richard Grossman and Ward Morehouse, which appeared as the Foreword in the book, The Elite Consensus, by George Draffan (2002). The 1st Amendment "does not intend to guarantee men freedom to say what some private interest pays them to say for its own advantage. It intends only to make men free [...]
Jane Anne Morris was interviewed by Tom Lewiston about the history of business corporations winning constitutional so-called "rights" in the US. The interview took place on October 9, 2001 at Network X. This 28" video can be viewed HERE. Jane Anne Morris' extensive selection of writings can be viewed at her website, DemocracyThemePark.org.
This event took place on October 8, 2001 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. This 19" video can be viewed HERE.
This article was written by Peter Kellman, a labor organizer based in Maine and a principal member of Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, and was originally published in the Spring 2000 edition of By What Authority. The purpose of this article is to introduce our readers to a key Supreme Court case from a working class [...]
Community Rights US Director Paul Cienfuegos wrote this essay for publication in Access Magazine (McKinleyville, CA) in 1999. It has been periodically updated since then. It covers some history that is nearly unbelievable from today's jaded perspective, when most activists believe there is virtually nothing we can do to dismantle the legal and political powers [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally written in 1998, and was published in Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. This article was written around the time Maine and a few other states were considering “campaign finance reform” laws. The historical perspective, even in the aftermath of the Citizens United case, shows us how little has changed. Many [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was written in 1998 "at the request of editors at Earth First! Journal, was never printed in full form there because they… couldn’t deal with it." It was finally officially published in Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy (Apex Press, 2001). A third of your friends are locked down in an old growth grove or at [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Fall 1997 edition of Earth Island Journal. It’s the best of times, if you’re a rapacious corporation with money. It’s the worst of times, if you’re a citizen with democratic pretensions, or a living thing. Or a rock. Especially if you contain ore. Using [...]
This 1997 article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org, in 2011. Centuries ago, Sir John Colepepper said of the “corporations” of his day, Like the frogs of Egypt, they have gotten possession of our dwellings and we have scarcely a room free from them; they sip in our cup; they dip in our [...]