Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategies

by Dean Ritz (Editor)

In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers corporations as "legal persons"; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more.

This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution — among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists — all in one provocative book.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic collection of essays, speeches, and other documents about corporations and how they’ve usurped power from the people.

There is a ton here, and it’s not super outdated despite being published in 2001, because a lot of it focuses on the history of how corporations have gotten this power.

I learned a lot from this collection, and it helped me understand how we’ve gotten to a point where “efficiency”, mass production, globalization, and environmental destruction are seen as natural and inevitable.

Corporations aren’t people, and they shouldn’t have rights. They are the creation of people, and should be governed as such.

[Chrissy · Rating 5 out of 5]

You'll see the root of all evil here and find the solutions. Fantastic