Thomas Linzey presented this groundbreaking speech at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on March 4, 2004. We believe it is one of the most important original documents that have yet been produced since the beginning of the Community Rights movement in 1999. Thomas Linzey is the Executive Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. [...]
This extraordinary article by corporate anthrop0logist Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) is a kind of Primer on Activist Groups vs Corporate Strategy. It was originally published in Globalize Liberation (City Lights Books, 2004). ..... In the U.S., this corporatized world is an open-air Democracy Theme Park where people go to hearings and pull voting levers, while decisions are being made elsewhere. [...]
On June 4, 2003, Bill Moyers gave a major speech at the Take Back America Conference in Washington DC, titled "This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On." The conference was sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future. Just 20 days later, on June 24, 2003, Richard Grossman published a scathing critique of Moyers' [...]
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.
Think you know about the origins of regulatory agencies and regulatory law in the US? Think again! This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Fall 1998 inaugural edition of By What Authority, the newsletter of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, and was reprinted in Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. If you’re having trouble getting to [...]
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 [...]