Labor Movement vs Corporate “Rights”

Jane Anne Morris interviewed on Network X

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.

You’ve Heard of Santa Clara, Now Meet Dartmouth

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 [...]

Democratic Money: A Populist Perspective.

Remarks presented by Lawrence Goodwyn, William Greider & others on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Populist Sub-Treasury Plan for financial reform - December 9, 1989, in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a resigned, plaintive-sounding analogy but it spoke volumes about the roaring '80s. "I don't think it is healthy to have this [...]

Beyond the Myths of Environmental Regulation

Walden Bello reviews the book, Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor, and the Environment, written by Richard Kazis and Richard L. Grossman, and published in 1982. The Wall Street Journal will probably give this book a bad review. Which would be all the more reason to recommend it. Richard Kazis and Richard Grossman, both staff members [...]

The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America.

This is the entire Introduction to the book, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn (Oxford University Press, 1978). This book is about the flowering of the largest democratic mass movement in American history. It is also necessarily a book about democracy itself. Finally it is about [...]

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