How does Corporate Rule affect my life?
This is a place where you can read concrete examples of how corporate rule (particularly the false legal doctrines of corporate constitutional rights and money as political free speech) is affecting people’s self-governance on the ground where they live. This page is not for explaining the macro view of the larger issues (e.g. corporate privatization of public education), but rather a micro view of specific impacts of corporate power in a town, city, or county that denies the rights of local democracy (e.g. a public school that was closed and then opened as a for-profit charter school).
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Corporate Rule Stories:
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Corporate Rule Preempting Ohio's Home Rule
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The Inhumanity of Cuyahoga County's Criminal Justice System
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Enslaved by Big Ag: Monsanto's Abuse of Farmers
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The Case of Synthetic Constitutional Rights
- Big PHARMA Uses Constitution to Fight State Price Controls
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Debtors' Prisons: Not As Historic As You Think
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Private Prisons and Political Power (Part Two): Corporations Write Their Own Laws
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Puerto Rico's Post-Hurricane Encounter with "Disaster Capitalism"
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Charter Schools in New Orleans: An Erosion of the Rights to a Good Education
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Amazon Corporations Extracts Tax Breaks from Cities Vying for Headquarters
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Chevron Corporation Takes on First Amendment Powers in Richmond, CA
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PG&E Corporation and California's Public Utility Commission Draw Fire over Fires
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Drug Corporation Evades Patent Law to Sustain Profit, Stifle Democracy
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Chevron Refinery Harms Local Communities in California
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Friends with Benefits: Sacramento County's Special Relationship with Teichert Corporation
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Private Prisons and Political Power (Part One): Money as Free Speech
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South Dakota Lawmakers Overrule Voters' Wishes
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State Preemption as Barrier to Local Control
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Corporate Mining Rights Deny Self-Rule to Alaskans
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Airbnb Deems City Rental Laws Violate Its "Constitutional Rights"
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Exxon Mobil Claims Constitutional Rights to Avoid Revealing Climate Change Cover-up
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Saudi Arabia "Buys" Power in Uber Corporation and Our Elections
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"Free Trade" Agreements Clobber People's Sovereignty
- Sovereign Citizens Don't Scold Their Corporate Creations
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Big Pharmaceutical Corporation Makes Billions Lying about Drug's Safety to Children and the Elderly
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Drug Corporation's Free Speech "Rights" Trump FDA's Approval Process
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State Denies Texas Community's Anti-Fracking Rights
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California's Drought Policy Serves Corporations First, People Second
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Florida-based Mining Corporation Buys Rewrite of Wisconsin Law
- Corporations Sue Hawaiian Government and Attempt to Overturn Laws They Say Violate Their Constitutional Rights