POCLAD - POCLAD Works!

POCLAD Works!

POCLAD
WORKS!

Pete Seeger sings:

“The first step in solving
a problem is learning
more about the problem,
and how and why it grew.
POCLAD is giving us U.S.
history like it’s not usually
taught in schools. Hooray!”

Program on
Corporations, Law & Democracy

DEFYING CORPORATIONS,
DEFINING DEMOCRACY;
A Book of History & Strategy
By POCLAD
Edited by Dean Ritz

Tired of giant corporations running everything?
Tired of hearing there is no other way?
Tired of politicians pimping for corporate execs?
Want to try consent of the governed?

      Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy is the tonic for you!
      In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as “legal persons”; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more.
This collection chronicles POCLAD’S evolution – among the thirteen of us and with thousands of concerned citizens. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists – all in one provocative, handsome book.
      The late Constitutional scholar and self-described “people’s laywer” Arthur Kinoy said of this collection, ”Don’t just read this book, use it to get corporations out of our Constitution!”
      Published for POCLAD by The Apex Press, 352 pages; extensive bibliography and index of court cases. Paperback. ISBN: 1-891843-10-9. Single copy: $21.95, includes shipping & handling.

ABOUT POCLAD

POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy) instigates democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to define our culture, govern our nation and plunder the Earth.

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Bill Bachle - UK
Greg Coleridge - OH
Karen Coulter - OR
Mike Ferner - OH
Richard Grossman - NH
Dave Henson - CA
Molly Morgan - CA

Peter Kellman - ME
Ward Morehouse - MA
Jane Anne Morris - WI
Jim Price - AL
Virginia Rasmussen - NY
Mary Zepernick - MA

“Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy, a volume of thoughtful essays on the pernicious role of corporations could have a crucial effect in securing power to the people, where it belongs.”
– Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University; author of ‘A People’s History of the United States’ and many other books.

“Our work with people resisting factory farm corporations in Pennsylvania has been heavily influenced by POCLAD and one of the primary reasons for this work’s success.”
– Thomas Linzey, President, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)

“Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy is a compelling call to us as citizens to take back the power to shape and protect the ways in which we live together on this planet.”
– Elise Boulding, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Dartmouth College, peace activist

ORDER NOW! www.poclad.org
Illustrations by Matt Wuerker
www.mwuerker.com
POCLAD, PO Box 246
South Yarmouth,MA 02664-0246
508-398-1145 * fax 508-398-1552

BUILDING UNIONS
Past, Present and Future
By Peter Kellman
Illustrated by Matt Wuerker

Your union local or activist community group is doing good work against one corporate assault after another. But your successes aren’t making the next campaign easier. Or challenging public officials who enable corporate usurpations.

You’re itching to take action. Hold on a moment, says Kellman in Building Unions. To rethink our organizing theory we need to know our history.

But where to turn?

Whether your passion is organizing unions, ending clear cutting, stopping genetic engineering or nurturing sane industrial transitions, this booklet is for you.

Learn how to:

leave your favorite regulatory agency in the dust;
contest corporate denial of people’s self governing authority;
reframe single issues as struggles for constitutional rights.

Published for POCLAD by The Apex Press. 37 pages. With bold, socko drawings by Matt Wuerker www.mwuerker.com. Paperback. ISBN: 1-891843-09-5. Single copy: $10. 2-5 copies: $8 each. (Prices include shipping & handling.) Even bigger discounts on larger orders.

BY WHAT AUTHORITY

Is there a periodical for self-governing people? A journal written by and for folks challenging illegitimate authority at its constitutional roots?

Yes! It’s POCLAD’s By What Authority (BWA).

Join us in:

scrutinizing the corporate system;

rethinking USA histories;

exploring creative organizing strategies.

Producing BWA makes us think. Reading it can do the same for you.

How to get it by mail? If you buy any POCLAD publication, or make a tax-deductable contribution, we’ll send you By What Authority three times a year.

“POCLAD’s publications combine

the exciting history lessons, loving

inspiration and formidable logic we

need to repair our corporatized minds.”

– Bette Burkes, Past President, Women’s

International League for Peace & Freedom

A CALL TO DEFY

CORPORATE DOMINATION

Text by Richard Grossman et. al.

Design by Syracuse Cultural Workers

Propaganda? Art? History? Order POCLAD’s poster, A Call to Defy Corporate Domination, and you decide.

Carry it at demonstrations. Plaster it on walls. Nail it to heavy wooden doors with great brass hinges. Tape it to glass doors of the malls where the corporations spread their whoppers and ply their wares. Stick it to lawyers, bankers, accountants, publishers, politicians, educators, mayors, governors, presidents and generals. Brandish it in daily conversation!

Black & white, 26” x 18” format. 1-5 copies: $10 each. 6-10 copies: $6 each. (Prices include shipping and handling.)

THE ELITE CONSENSUS

When Corporations Wield

The Constitution

By George Draffan

Financial and business corporations throw millions of dollars at think tanks, lobbyists and universities, exploiting writers and artists galore. Their assignment? To twist words, gnarl symbols, sell lies, whip people into line.

The Elite Consensus fingers the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, and many other “educational” corporations which men of property have unleashed on this planet. Draffan shows how these corporate con artists teach us our history, elect our representatives, write our laws, define ideas and frame public policy debates.

What can people do? The Supreme Court, which has wrapped these corporations in the Constitution, says: not a damn thing. For a healthier perspective, read this book.

Published for POCLAD by The Apex Press, 2003, with a collectable Matt Wuerker cartoon cover. 180 pages, Paperback. ISBN 1-891843-14-1. Single copy: $18.95 including shipping and handling.

“POCLAD’s thought provoking work on the
questions of corporate power in a democracy
goes beyond redressing a specific wrong to ask what we can do about it in a larger sense.”
– Molly Ivins, populist, irreverent syndicated columnist.