‘Fish Discover Water Last: Richard L. Grossman on corporations, democracy and us’*For those who don't know, Richard was the co-founder of POCLAD. Please consider ordering one or more copies of this fine work.*Wendell’s Human Error Publishing and resident Anna Gyorgy have joined forces to publish a short but powerful book featuring work of the late historian-activist Richard Grossman, entitled “Fish Discover Water Last: Richard L. Grossman on corporations, democracy and us.”Grossman’s career in public policy and activism ...Continue Reading

Remembering Richard Grossman with new publication*Richard Lee Grossman August 10, 1943 — November 22, 2011**Fish Discover Water Last* on corporations, democracy and us*Just Published. Order Now!**https://www.fishdiscoverwaterlast.net/***Please order directly from the publisher (in bulk starting with only 2 copies!) -- or from local bookstores. **/“It is sometimes said that ‘fish discover water last.’//And I think that applies to us.We’ve been colonized. //We’re a colonized people. We’ve lived in a corporate cu ...Continue Reading

Program on Corporations, Law and DemocracyContesting the Authority of Corporations to GovernContact people@PROTECTEDTo: Readers and supporters of POCLAD’s workSubject: The future of our POCLAD collectiveThose of us long a part of the collective known as the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy want to thank our supporters for the interest and support we received over the years. Reframing the people’s work against destructive corporate activity is essential to putting people and not giant business entities in charg ...Continue Reading

POCLAD Seminal Articles and August 12 Webinar Invitation*Greetings POCLAD supporter!*When we launched POCLAD in 1994 we created a printed flyer inviting you Engage US in the idea that giant corporations do not merely exercise power, but that they are literally ruling over us. At the time, it was a radical notion. Today, corporate rule is pretty much accepted reality by most social change agentsWith humility, we believe POCLAD played an important role in providing inspiration and an intellectual framework for the global ...Continue Reading

POCLAD July 13 Webinar InviteGreetings POCLAD supporter!When we launched POCLAD in 1994 we created a printed flyer inviting you to Engage US in the idea that giant corporations do not merely exercise power, but that they are literally ruling over us. At the time, it was a radical notion. Today, corporate rule is pretty much accepted reality by most social change agentsWith humility, we believe POCLAD played an important role in providing inspiration and an intellectual framework for the global justice movement, Occupy W ...Continue Reading

Duel Plagues: Coronavirus and CorporationsBy Virginia W. RasmussenWe are inundated with articles and hours of daily commentary on the nature of the coronavirus attack, the locations of largest impact, the heartbreaking news of illness and death, the latest instructions on safe behavior, and status of the search for a vaccine. The U.S. government’s response is mired in the absence of focused initiative; in daily presidential lies and babble; in the scarcity of supplies for exhausted medical workers, in over-extended post ...Continue Reading

Rights for NatureBy Karen CoulterWhy Rights for Nature?The Rights for Nature concept would create an ethical and legal system, which is necessary to counter capitalist or corporate exploitation of Nature. The aim of converting Nature into commodities without reference to ecological limits fails to account for losses of life sources and potentially irreparable harm to life support systems. It is necessary to cap the rate of economic increase in the “standard of living” by stabilizing and reducing the total human populati ...Continue Reading

Corporate Hijacking of the U.S. ConstitutionBy Greg ColeridgeMove to Amend recently issued a series of written documents detailing the many constitutional rights awarded to corporations by the Supreme Court. The series, Corporate Hijacking of the U.S. Constitution , includes a four-page summary of many corporate constitutional rights. It’s followed by seven separate two-page douments describing the "corporate hijacking" of individual constitutional amendments and portions of the original U.S. Constitution.What ...Continue Reading

America 2019: A Pocket Guide To Life & Resistance in Times of Fascist TerrorBy Mel FigueroaI met Mel Figueroa in 2016, and was immediately impressed by her encyclopedic knowledge of movement history. Rarely have I meet someone with such a deep grounding in history and theory who was also such a skilled and practical organizer. In a nutshell, when Mel Figueroa speaks, I listen.Mel began to warn about emerging fascism in 2016 (well before the horror of the Unite the RIght tragedy of Charlottesville, VA in August of 20 ...Continue Reading

Jane Anne Morris - In MemoriamIt is with sincere sadness, but also deep responsibility that we share the following “In Memoriam” of one-time POCLAD “principal” Jane Anne Morris. Besides being a colleague and friend, Jane Anne taught us all through her writing and speaking different ways to think about and see the world more clearly.After reading about her life, visit her website, http://democracythemepark.org/home/, to see what we mean.“Gaveling Down the Rabble,” written when she was part of the POCLAD collective, remai ...Continue Reading