Wisconsin Wave

“It is bad enough that corporations can hijack Fifth Amendment rights against takings to overturn or demand compensation for lost profits from community-backed regulations, but now it’s been expanded that right to directly undermine a workers’ First Amendment rights to free speech and free association. We reject the Court’s disturbing opinion and call on Congress to amend the U.S.Constitution by passing H.J.R. 48, the We the People Amendment, to make clear that constitutional rights belong to human beings, not artificial corporations.”

- Move to Amend Condemns ’s v. Hassid Decision

"The ruling marks the latest blow in a devastating campaign to roll back hard-won victories for the US labor movement in favor of businesses."

Read more:
https://www.movetoamend.org/cedar_point_nursery_decision

"At this political moment of U.S. hegemonic decline, popular insurgencies are among the counter-hegemonic forces seeking to challenge “petro-hegemony” and to reshape the global order. Activists engaged in community-based campaigns against corporate power are generally operating on terrains defined by the translocalization of local resistance, or by contests over sovereignty, the corporation itself, or alternative global constitutionalisms." Read the whole issue, with all the great essays, here: http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/index

Corporate Power and Local Democracy Just out, this symposium on corporate power and local democracy, appearing in the Spring 2019 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research. All six contributions to this symposiu