This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the August 1, 2008 edition of Progressive Populist. In the Spring of 2008, tens of thousands of South Koreans held candlelight vigils every day for over a month to protest being forced to accept beef from the United States. The US government claims that barring our [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Spring 2008 edition of By What Authority, and was adapted from her book, Gaveling Down the Rabble. What’s pink, French, and unconstitutional? Hint: The story of this early “frankenfood” provides an advance script for the current global “free trade” frenzy. Over a century ago, [...]
This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was published in the January 1, 2008 edition of Progressive Populist. How to be sure that toy under the holiday tree has no lead paint? With only a month of shopping days remaining, the public depends–more than at any other time–on our federal regulatory agencies’ ability to protect us [...]
This article by Richard Grossman was originally published in 2004. Invoking the people's constitutional maxim: "Where there is harm, there must be remedy," Friends and Residents of St. Thomas Township (FROST) have turned a conventional defense against a giant quarry-asphalt-cement corporation into a confrontation over corporate claims to constitutional rights. FROST members live in South-Central [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]