Wednesday 19 December 2007

Richard Grossman on Alternative Radio

I just listened to a talk by Richard Grossman on Alternative Radio(http://www.alternativeradio.org/) called "Rolling Back Corporate Power."

He compared the struggle abolotionists in the 1800's faced in fighting against the status quo of what was and wasn't constitutional with the struggle modern American communities face in fighting for the constitutional rights of humans over corporations. As it stands now, because of the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company ruling the Supreme Court made in 1886, corporations have the rights of citizens under the U.S. Constitution. If you've seen the documentary "Trading Democracy" (http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/tradingdemocracy.html), that kind of corporate status, given by our constitution and by NAFTA, might make you feel as nervous as I do about the whole mess.

Here are some websites related to Richard Grossman:
http://www.poclad.org/
http://www.zmag.org/intgrossman.htm
http://www.ratical.org/corporations/TCoB.html
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1993/08/mm0893_06.html