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from YES! Magazine:
Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable
7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down.
by Sarah van Gelder
posted Jan 20, 2012
You may remember that there was a time when apartheid in South Africa seemed unstoppable.
Sure, there were international boycotts of South African businesses, banks, and tourist attractions. There were heroic activists in South Africa, who were going to prison and even dying for freedom. But the conventional wisdom remained that these were principled gestures with little chance of upending the entrenched system of white rule.
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With hindsight, though, apartheids fall appears inevitable: the legitimacy of the system had already crumbled. It was harming too many for the benefit of too few. South Africas freedom fighters would not be silenced, and the global movement supporting them was likewise tenacious and principled.
In the same way, the legitimacy of rule by giant corporations and Wall Street banks is crumbling. This system of corporate rule also benefits few and harms many, affecting nearly every major issue in public life. Some examples:
The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/sarah-van-gelder/corporate-rule-is-not-inevitable
pinto
(106,886 posts)Had never seen this magazine / website. Good to see a "solutions oriented" outlet, even if those solutions are incremental, as most solutions seem to be.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)is turning against corporate greed in a big way. That is why we all have to continue to speak out, protest and fight the corruption.