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 [...]
by Peter d'Errico At the top of the city in a glass-chromed room an attorney assures the board of directors that the corporation is the person against which any or all action may be taken, not against each and every director joint or several. The multiheaded person exhales dry-iced victory as counsel backs out [...]
Jane Anne Morris prepared this in-depth essay about SLAPP's - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation - way back in 1995. This paper on SLAPPs is written for non-lawyers by a non-lawyer. It is an attempt to familiarize the interested layperson with the nature of SLAPPs, defenses against them, and ways to prevent them. Special attention [...]
On November 10, 1994, an Open Letter was sent to the leadership of the fifteen largest environmental organizations in the US. It was co-signed by people representing 400 grassroots activist organizations across the US. Other than a brief polite reply from the Sierra Club, none of the fifteen major organizations ever responded substantively to this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bruce Johansen's book, originally published in 1982, is now out of print, but can be read in its entirety HERE. Here's an excerpt from the book's Introduction: This book has two major purposes. First, it seeks to weave a few new threads into the tapestry of American revolutionary history, to begin the telling of a larger [...]
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 [...]
The Modern Corporate State: Private Governments & the American Constitution was written by Arthur Selwyn Miller and published in 1976. "Toward a Definition of the Corporate State" is the title of Chapter Two, which you can read HERE. It was published online by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Everyman's Constitution: Historical Essays on the 14th Amendment, The "Conspiracy Theory", and American Constitutionalism, was written by Howard Jay Graham, and published in 1968. A portion of the book was reprinted online by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, including the Foreword, Author's Preface, and the first two chapters. To review this excerpt, click HERE.