Monday, January 25, 2010

Unequal Protection


This is perhaps the best book on corporate personhood.
Peace ~ Molly

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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate
Dominance and Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann

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Unequal Protection is a book about how corporations are trying to hijack democracy – and what we can do about it.


In Unequal Protection, author Thom Hartmann tells a compelling, can’t-put-it-down story that tracks the history of the loss of democracy in America. It starts with the birth of the modern corporation with the founding of the East India Company in 1600, through the Boston Tea Party revolt against transnational corporate domination of the early American economy, the rise of corporations during the Civil War, the ultimate theft of human rights before the Supreme Court in 1886, and into the modern-day theft of human rights in the US and worldwide by corporate interests and the politicians they own.

“If you wonder why the corporate world constantly lurches from malaise to oppression to governmental corruption and back, Unequal Protection reveals the untold story. Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies.”-Paul Hawken, author, Natural Capitalism


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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

All serious daring starts from within.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
~ Marian Wright Edelman

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