Advance praise for Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy and POCLAD's work...

"Don't just read this book.  Use it to get corporations out of our Constitution."
Arthur Kinoy
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University School of Law; Co-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights

"This book 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

"...a work of historic importance...An essential resource for all who believe in democracy."
David Korten
Author of When Corporations Rule the World

"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 and Freedom

"We know when we walk into a migrant labor camp, the law says we have no First Amendment right to talk with farmworkers.  But we do it anyway.  FLOC has beaten stacked-deck labor laws with organizing based on human rights and people power.  So we know how important it is that POCLAD is helping organizers get off the defensive to challenge employer privilege and Supreme Court decisions that shackle workers' rights."
Baldemar Velasquez
President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO

"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!"
Pete Seeger

"Because there is a growing recognition among Americans that corporate power is an assault on democracy, this volume of thoughtful essays arrives at just the right time.  An ideal handbook on the pernicious role of corporations, it could have a crucial effect in securing power to the people, where it belongs."
Howard Zinn
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University; author of A People's History of the United States and many other books.

"POCLAD would have us redefine and affirm our rights and identities as sovereign citizens.  We cede the very fiber of our Constitution if we fail to take up this challenge."
Representative Dennis Kucinich
Ohio Congressman

"POCLAD has broadened and deepened our work on behalf of self-governance and in its challenge to our corporate culture."
Michael McConnell
Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

"I find POCLAD most useful for the questions it asks."
Molly Ivins

"The impact of POCLAD's work on the latest wave of popular mobilization is difficult to overstate.  Their work has influenced thousands of key organizers and leaders and helped build a strong foundation for more systemic anti-corporate and social justice campaigns (and) inspired us to break out of the shackles that the powerful have histrically used to cripple struggles for justice, democracy and ecological sanity."
Patrick Reinsborough
Rainforest Action Network

"POCLAD has helped us adapt concepts like 'corporate personhood' to our summer 2001 production, 1600 Transylvania Avenue."
Ed Holmes
San Francisco Mime Troupe

"Our work with people resisting factory farm corporations in Pennsylvania--which has evolved from regulatory ordinances to local laws establishing community control over food production--has been heavily influenced by POCLAD.  Indeed, we believe that POCLAD's assistance has been one of the primary reasons for this work's success."
Thomas Linzey
President, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund