ENGAGE US #6: Corporate Strategies
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A century ago corporate strategists began to dream up regulatory laws and agencies to replace the chartering processes, general incorporation laws and state constitutions which people had used to define corporations as subordinate. They transformed once potent public cultures of trespass, nuisance, liberty and personal property rights into bastions of private corporate power.

Perhaps you remember thinking this about your past campaigns: If only we had gotten a thousand more letters in the mail; more experts at the hearings; better press coverage; more people at the demo ... We remember. But now we see that even with these 'if onlys,' corporations would still be in charge.

This is because the political and legal culture has been diverting activists from political arenas where people can define issues and make the rules; where win and lose, it is clear that the struggle is about who's in charge - corporations or people. So today, POCLAD is exploring different organizing arenas and reaching for strategies that take into account long-term corporate influences over culture, law and even activist organizing.