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Tables of Contents for Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Notes to the Reader
xv
Introduction
1
7
I. STARTING POINT
``Help! I've Been Colonized and I Can't Get Up...''
8
5
Take a Lawyer and an Expert to a Hearing and Call Me in a Decade
Playing by Whose Rules?
13
5
A Challenge to Environmental, Civil Rights, and Other Activists
Unfinished Business
18
5
Bhopal Ten Years After
Ending Corporate Governance
23
2
Letter to Barbara Dudley
25
5
Greenpeace USA
Rethinking the Corporation in the Context of Citizen-Organizing for Justice
30
5
Consumption, Civil Action, and Corporate Power
35
3
Lessons from the Past, Strategies for the Future
Corporations Must not Supplant ``We the People''
38
3
Why We Research Corporate Law
41
5
II. RECOVERING HISTORY
The Working Class History Test
46
3
Citizens over Corporations
49
4
A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio
Dog Days at Company Headquarters
53
2
Business Accountability and the Corporate Charter
Corporate Social Responsibility
55
4
Kick the Habit
Taking Care of Business
59
14
Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation
Regarding ``The Journal of Corporate Citizenship''
73
1
Man Corporate on Top of the World
74
2
Labor Organizing and Freedom of Association
76
6
Corporations for the Seventh Generation
82
7
Changing the Ground Rules
You've Heard of Santa Clara, Now Meet Dartmouth
89
3
Corporations and the Public Interest
92
7
The Development of Property Concepts in the U.S. ``Just Us'' System
Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
99
7
III. CONQUERING FIBS
March of Folly
106
2
Corporate Perversion of the Fourteenth Amendment
Coming Soon
108
2
Futures Market in Constitutional Rights?
Justice for Sale
110
6
Shortchanging the Public Interest for Private Gain
The Corporate Crunch in Vermont
116
5
Wrong Turn in Ohio
121
3
A Wake-Up Call for Other States
A Quick Look at What Happened in New Mexico
124
6
Letter to the New York Times Corporation
130
4
IV. OUT ON OUR OWN
Revoking the Corporation
134
3
The Politics of Challenging Corporate Power
137
4
Note on Issues and Strategies
Corporations, Accountability, and Responsibility
141
8
The Wto, the U.S. Constitution, and Self-Government
149
4
Rumors of USA Democracy Discovered to be Counterfeit
153
7
V. RIGHT SIDE UP
Rally Against the ``Contract on America''
160
2
The Great Corporate Social Security Sting
162
5
What is the Purpose of Public Education?
167
4
The Rising Costs of Inequality in the U.S.
171
2
Democracy in Crisis
Utilities Get Their Way
173
4
The Fraud of Energy Deregulation
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment
177
4
An International Human Rights Crisis
Cancer Is a Political Disease
181
2
Welfare Reform Comes to Toledo
183
1
Gender and Global Corporatization
184
3
Is Truth for Sale?
187
3
Corporate Power on Campus and the Future of Student Activism
Speaking Truth to Power About Campaign Reform
190
8
Human Rights Vs. Corporate ``Rights''
198
2
Disappearing Railroad Blues?
200
4
VI. QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
Rethinking the Corporation
204
5
Letter to Jerome Groopman
209
2
Harvard Medical School
We the People
211
6
Building a Truly Democratic Society
Letter to Akhil Reed Amar
217
3
Yale Law School
Letter to the Alliance for Democracy
220
8
Letter to the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation
228
4
Letter to Friends
232
6
VII. BREAK THE RULES
Strategies to End Corporate Rule
238
2
Turning the Tables on Pennsylvania Agri-Corporations
240
4
An Interview with Thomas Linzey
Asserting Democratic Control Over Corporations
244
8
A Call to Lawyers
National Lawyers Guild Resolution National Lawyers Guild
252
2
Statement to the District of Columbia Superior Court
254
1
Workers' Rights, Corporate Privileges
255
3
Nine Seminars
258
3
At the 1996 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Creating a Model Corporation Code
261
2
Another Avenue for Action
Strip Corporations of Their Cloaking Device
263
2
Labor Party Resolution Labor Party
265
2
Point Arena City Council Resolution
267
2
Certificate of Dissolution: Weyerhaeuser Corporation
269
5
VIII. POINT OF DEPARTURE
Reaching Back, Digging Deep
274
8
Strategies in Context
Demanding Human Rights to Fight Corporate Power
282
3
Brief in Support of the Motion for Peremptory Judgment
285
2
Toward a New Labor Law
287
7
Some Lessons Learned
294
6
Revolutionizing Corporate Law
300
4
A Goal, A Framework, A Myth
304
APPENDICES
Biographies
308
Works Cited
311
Index of Cases
319
Index of Subjects
321