The internet and all of its required server farms or data centers is a profoundly unsustainable part of our world. If you don't believe that, check out this article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) which was originally published in the May 31, 2012, and January 8, 2013 editions of Earth First! Journal. Save a tree, bank [...]
Russell Mokhiber wrote these reflective words upon hearing of the death of Richard Grossman in November 2011. Russell is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Last month, Richard Grossman sent me an e-mail. He wanted to let me know of legislation he helped draft that would criminalize the corporate form. It was classic Richard Grossman. [...]
The folks at RatHaus have created this extraordinary selection of source materials about the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the foundational role that they played in the creation of the United States of America. Here's just the opening paragraph and Table of Contents of this amazing resource! ... The people of the Six Nations, [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2010 edition of Justice Rising (Alliance for Democracy). How is it unconstitutional for a state to require place-of-origin labels on meat? Regulate sale of its water? Establish worker protections stricter than federal standards? Where does the US Constitution say that states cannot require that [...]
Mass 'Resignation' Thwarts Progressive Change This article by Megan Wade was published on the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy's (POCLAD) website in September of 2009. A brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: I just ran across and read this short article from 2009. This could be an asset to any [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2009 edition of Synthesis/Regeneration. Today as many hundreds of billions of dollars are flying out of federal coffers to bail out and bulk up The Economy, it is instructive to review a few of the places we have not put enough money in [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Winter 2008 edition of Synthesis/Regeneration. One distracted click during my Internet research for this article gave me instant access to 936 photos of Brad Pitt. According to people who know, that click activated some 7000 computers in the search, and perhaps twice as many [...]
This article was posted on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's website, November 25th, 2008. Fed up with repeated state preemption of local laws, Michigan cities have spearheaded a campaign to require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, rather than a simple majority, to pass any law dealing with an issue that could be addressed by [...]
This article about the non-profit community ownership of the Green Bay Packers, by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the (Madison, Wisconsin) Capital Times on July 23, 2008. The Green Bay Packers control Brett Favre’s fate, but the people control the Green Bay Packers. The thousands of Wisconsinites who own stock in the team [...]
This essay by Lewis Pitts was originally published in the March 2007 edition of By What Authority, the newsletter of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD). Lewis is a POCLAD principal, and heads Advocates for Children's Services of Legal Aid of North Carolina, in Durham. Those who wield the power and wealth of corporations [...]
