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Corporations and Democracy
There is looming up a new and dark power... the enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power.... The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, which shall rule, wealth or man; which shall lead, money or intellect; who shall fill public stations, educated and patriotic freemen, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?
~ Edward G. Ryan, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1873
The corporation is the dominant economic institution of our time. Please read our resources regarding corporate chartering, corporate constitutional rights, and democratizing the corporation. NewsMANSKI AND GRAVES: Corporations are People TooDate: March 2, 2010GRANT: Voters of both parties object to Supreme Court activismDate: January 26, 2010WASH POST: On pins and needles ahead of Citizens UnitedDate: January 14, 2010Take ActionMove to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Courtsource: Campaign to Legalize DemocracyBreak Up the Banks!source: A New Way ForwardSupport Benton Harbor leader now!source: Rev. Pinkney Support CommitteeEventsWisconsin: March to Overrule the Court(February 16, 2010)Make plans to join the March to Overrule the Court, Noon, on Tuesday, February 16th as we loudly protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that corporations are persons entitled to constitutional rights to influence elections. Rally at the State Capitol, State Street steps, then march to the nearby federal courthouse. Bring a bell to ring, warm clothes, and friends. Click here to get a pdf poster to print out and distribute Democracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Publications & TalksMANSKI: The Essence of the Corporation(January 11, 2010) "It is hard to imagine a society absent corporations of any kind. Human beings will cooperate, and produce things together, and recognize the product of their collective labors as corporate work. Yet history shows that other key aspects of the modern corporation – namely corporate personhood and liability – are neither inevitable nor to be preferred. Indeed, those corporate qualities are correlated with the strong state and empire, hardly friends of democracy." La FOLLETTE: July 4, 1897 on the Dangers Threatening Representative GovernmentConsidered among the several most significant speeches of the great radical reformer, Fighting Bob La Follette, we offer these excerpts to you 112 years later. Corporatization: An Internal Clash of CivilizationsCorporatization: An Internal Clash of Civilizations by Ben Manski and John Peck Published in "Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services" |
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