Insurrection
Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
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- $62.99
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- $62.99
Publisher Description
From uncovering major retailers' links to sweatshop abuses and revealing the deception of American tobacco companies, to questioning corporations' ties to repressive dictators, shaming food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna and demanding that businesses stop destroying old growth forests, citizens have become far more aggressive in directly
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Some policy analysts believe our government is so beholden to corporate interests that it is morphing from democracy to plutocracy. Danaher and Mark, co-founder and communication director, respectively, of the human rights group Global Exchange, believe citizens can fight back against corporate rule, and here they detail cases where they have done so to protect the environment and public health, and to protest corporate links to abusive regimes and oppose economic globalization. Different chapters focus on the fight against sweatshops abroad ("one of the most vigorous strands" of the anti-globalization fight), the long legal fight against Big Tobacco and the fight for democracy in Burma, which involves targeting corporations that do business with that repressive regime. Despite setbacks, the movement remains optimistic, the authors note, and anyone interested in learning more about it would do well to start here.
