125 Cities Passed Laws Placing Rights of Citizens, Nature Ahead of Corporations
Despite the ongoing trend towards granting corporate entities more rights and influence (hello, Citizens United), a number of cities and townships across the nation have stubbornly forged a legal...
View ArticleNorway Requires 40% of Corporate Boards to Be Female
Norway made waves in the international business community back in 2002 when it proposed a new law–all corporate boards must be made up of at least 40 percent women. This law had real consequences in...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Whole Foods on List of the World’s 110 Most Ethical Companies
If this whole capitalism thing is going to work, us consumers have to start supporting ethical behavior the only way we can … with our dollars. The reason companies like Monsanto, the creator of Agent...
View Article67% of Americans Believe Corporations Have Too Much Power
Republicans, Democrats Agree That Lobbyists, Corporations Have Too Much Power When we talk about how to build an ideal world, a lot of the debate centers around one thing: the balance of power. The...
View ArticlePowershift 2011: 10,000 Climate Activists Gather in DC, Calls Mount for Civil...
Today marks the 4th day of Powershift, an annual event that gathers 10,000 students, community leaders, and activists in DC to foment the growing youth clean energy and climate movement. It’s touted as...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Kill Big Oil Subsidies?
One More Time With Feeling: Obama Calls to Kill Big Oil Subsidies Every year, the American taxpayer writes a check to Big Oil — and that’s on top of buying petroleum-based products and paying through...
View ArticleScientific Paper Offers Evidence that World Domination by Corporations is Real
Just in time to support the Occupy movement, researchers have analyzed how much control various companies have over the global economy; the results shouldn’t be a surprise: the majority of our economy...
View ArticleWhy, Democracy Might Just Stave Off Corporate Takeover After All …
Too few people, I think, understand how dire a problem income inequality truly is. Many equate the phenomenon to class jealousy, which can indeed destabilize society, or the simple moral discrepancy of...
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