Stand Up to Corporate Power
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Citizen movements are proving that we can take on corporate power, and together build a future that works for all life.
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Issue 43 |
 Theme Guide:
Corporations |
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Editor's Introduction: We the People, Rising by Sarah van Gelder |
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New Visions |
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| Who Will Rule? We the People vs. the Corporate Giants—it’s the power struggle of our time. At stake: control of our health care, our energy future, our quality of life, and our planet. By Michael Marx & Marjorie Kelly Historic Scorecard Online only  A Call for a Global Movement to Bring Corporations Back Under Control: The Strategic Corporate Initiative |
Living Wealth: Better Than Money To serve money or to serve life—that is the question that will determine the sort of world future generations will inherit. By David Korten |
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10 Signs of Hope: Stories of Action and Change We Didn't Hear About in 2006-7 An excerpt from the book "Censored 2008" By Project Censored |
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World & Community |
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| Communities Take Power How small-town citizens are claiming the right to govern themselves by challenging laws stacked in favor of corporations. By Doug Pibel |
Democracy, Unlimited Elections are no longer for sale in Humboldt County, where voters stopped outside corporations from buying influence. By Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap |
Campaign Finance Reform and More Clean elections. Voter choice. A free Internet. Some keys to democracy. By Charlie Cray
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7 Cool Companies Check out the best alternatives to corporations and the coolest places to work. By Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb & Ted Howard |
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The Power of One |
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| Who’s Standing Up? A finance minister, a mother, a union president, a pastor, and others in the surprising range of people resisting corporate power. |
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Americans Who Tell the Truth An online slide show of portraits of Americans by New England artist Robert Shetterly. |
5 Ways to Get Free Buy local, ride a bike, support your local bookstore, and other good and better ways to break free of corporate rule. |
Resource Guide Learn how you can be part of the movement to end corporate rule. Online only Corporation Film Resources |
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Breaking Open |
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| Common Knowledge Where you learn how to make your community safe for democracy. By Jeff Kaplan
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Protecting Our Commons Keeping the air, the water, the Internet and other commons out of corporate hands and in our own. By Sarah van Gelder & Doug Pibel |
Extraordinary Women Photo essay from "Women Empowered" by Phil Borges. Women from Africa, southeast Asia, and South America who overcame their circumstances to improve their lives and the lives of others. |
About the Cover Photo by Channing Johnson Barnstead resident Gail Darrell Joined forces with Selectmen Gordon Preston and Jack O'Neill to protect the town's water. |
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Features |
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| U.S. Social Forum: We Saw Another World in Atlanta More than 10,000 young people, people of color, homeless people, activists of all sorts came to the U.S. Social Forum By Sarah van Gelder Online only USSF Photo Essay |
My Year of Eating Local: Zucchini Wars A veritable Stonehenge of summer squashes; how many ways can one family put them to creative use? By Barbara Kingsolver |
Not Your Grandfather’s SDS Young and old activists find each other and discover the power of reaching across generations. By Joshua Kahn Russell |
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Departments |
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SIGNS OF LIFE |
QUOTE PAGE: Judy Wicks |
FROM THE PUBLISHER |
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