Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
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POCLAD
Tel: 508-398-1145
Fax: 508-398-1552
E-mail: people@poclad.org
Website: www.poclad.org
POCLAD is a group of people instigating conversations and actions to contest the authority of corporations to define our culture, govern our nation and plunder the Earth. We work in the tradition of people's struggles to replace illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that disperse rather than concentrate wealth and power.
Over the past several years, a new ferment has surfaced, seeking to assert citizen sovereignty over corporations and revitalize the principle of self-rule — the essence of democracy.
In light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on 21 Jan. 2010, in the case "Citizens United v. FEC" (Federal Election Commission), the issue of corporate person-hood and a corporation's rights has become even more pertinent than ever. This controversial 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court allows for corporations to spend near unrestricted funds on "free speech", now considered by this Supreme Court to be a first amendment right extended to corporations; affecting elections, political advertising and political campaign- financing and spending.
The following material has been stimulated by democratic conversations with people around the nation on the role of corporations in a democracy.
POCLAD Books
How "Free Trade" Is Stealing Our Democracy
In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United St
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$15.00
In The Rule of Property, Karen Coulter offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the rise of private property over the public domain by linking two popular streams of thought: th
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Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book
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$5.00
Four essays that ask: why again? And where goes the peace movement after Iraq?
Of all the possible responses to the attacks of September 11, why did the U.S. government choose war? What can a reactivated peace movement learn from the Iraq war and from 20th Century
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Pamphlet; view book
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$3.00
Financial and business corporations throw millions of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl s
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$9.00
A book of history and strategy
In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state co
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Paperback, Trade paperback (US); view book
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$10.00
Past, present and future
Your union local or activist community group is doing good work against one corporate assault after another. But your successes aren't making the next campaigns easier. Or challenging pu
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Pamphlet; view book
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$5.00
Citizenship and the charter of incorporation (5th printing)
Taking Care of Business discusses the rise of the powerful corporation, its transformation into personhood, and the need for the structural reform of governance of
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Pamphlet; view book
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$4.00