Taming the Giant Corporation: A National Conference on Corporate Accountability

[OneBlueSky]

about time someone started focusing on the REAL problem . . . when looking for root causes of things like war, environmental destruction, poor national healthcare, etc., look no further than rank corporate greed -- and a government that not only enables, but actually encourages it . . . without strict (and I do mean STRICT) corporate regulation, nothing else will ever change . . . period . . .

http://www.tamethecorporation.org/index.html

The multinational corporation is the dominant institution in the global political economy. The toll it inflicts on people and the planet -- high drug prices, sweatshops, global warming, and on and on -- is well documented.

But too little attention has been focused on the corporation itself, and the evolving forms of corporate power. "Taming the Giant Corporation" aims to identify, examine and classify the changing manifestations of corporate power.

The conference's central, pioneering task is to facilitate discussion, debate and strategic thinking about how to subordinate corporate power to the will and interests of the people. How do we replace the excessive corporate privileges and immunities entrenched in law and the economy?

Corporations were originally chartered by the states in the early nineteenth century to be our servants not our masters.

How can we displace corporations (e.g., with national health insurance, by keeping information and knowledge in the public domain, or by expanding and strengthening the commons)? What tools and approaches can empower communities to set parameters on corporate activity? What countervailing institutions should be nurtured to offset concentrated corporate power?

"Taming the Giant Corporation" will be an opportunity to learn, debate, meet leading advocates and activists, and grapple with the questions that must be answered if we are to strive for a just and livable world.

http://www.tamethecorporation.org/index.html

[Greyhound]

1. Kick for tomorrow...

way past my bedtime. But I agree wholeheartedly with the premise.
:kick:

[acmavm]

3. The premise is a good thing. That it will ever be put to practical

use is not ever going to happen. Not the way the deck is stacked.

[Double T]

2. The corrupt psychopathic wall street powered monsters, aka the.........

corporations, must be overthrown, neutered, lobotomized or dismembered.

[StClone]

4. Best and the Brightest

thieves end up in some of our corporations. People will defend the as "needed and legal" thuggery in the guise of corporate business and Wall Street Money managers. Making hundreds to thousands of times more income per year than the average person is unconscionable yet somehow admired.