November 20, 2009
Ask Many Good Ideas
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| | Business With Passion: Shannon Biggs
-- Interview with Shannon Biggs at the 2009 Bioneers Conference. |
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June 18, 2009
The Oakland Post Online
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| | Who Decides if Corporations Can Pollute or Drive Out Local Business?
-- The biggest threat posed by corporations is not the illegal stuff of headlines. The real danger is what they are empowered to do legally, every day, in every community across the country. |
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June 15, 2009
Reuters
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| | Pennsylvania town fights big coal on mining rights
-- A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses. |
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June 14, 2009
PeakMoment.tv
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| | VIDEO: How Communities are Saying "NO" to Corporate Rights
-- In this excerpt from a longer presentation, Shannon Biggs, of Global Exchange, describes how more than 100 communities have enacted laws that place the rights of communities and nature over the claimed "rights" of corporations. It's a radical and inspiring approach that brings decision-making back to communities. |
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May 26, 2009
opednews
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| | 1886 - When The American Experiment Died
-- "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in “Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad,” that corporations were human entities, and as such, enjoyed all the Constitutional privileges afforded to U.S. citizens..... When lifeless corporations were given personhood, those Americans whose lives were lost to advance the cause of freedom, meant nothing.... When Congress passes tort reform laws corporations, and their stockholders, will be completely unaccountable for their actions."
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January 01, 2007
Building The Green Economy, success stories from the grassroots
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| | Pennsylvania Sludge Busters
-- Story of Daniel Pennock and Porter Township where it all began. |
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January 01, 2007
Building The Green Economy, success stories from the grassroots
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| | Interview with Thomas Linzey
-- A co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), Linzey is a practicing attorney, committed to the idea that change happens at the grassroots. |
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April 01, 2003
Hightower Lowdown
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| | How a clerical error made corporations "people"
-- There’s a historic date that our country ought to mark every year, which has had as great an impact on the world as the July 4th birth of American democracy itself. The date is May 10, 1886—the day corporate supremacy was born. It came about through a court case that breathed life into these artificial, anti-democratic entities—a move that effectively gave corporations greater power than We the People. |
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