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C4CR - Code For Corporate Responsibility
Mission StatementTo transform the legal purpose of corporations to include responsibility to employees, communities and the environment.
Vision StatementC4CR envisions a world in which corporations work for a just, peaceful and sustainable global society.
"Directors shall manage the corporation in a manner that does not cause damage to the environment, violate human rights, adversely affect the public health or safety, damage the welfare of the communities in which the corporation operates, or violate the dignity of the corporation's employees."
--Model Uniform Code
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Minneapolis City Council Members Paul Zerby and Dean Zimmermann will present the anti-war resolution to the Intergovernmental Relations Committee on Tuesday, January 28. | Active Campaigns Underway in More than 60 Additional Cities (see list below)
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Cleveland City Council unanimously passes anti-war resolution Tuesday
28 Jan 2003
From: "James K Miller" <jkmiller@igc.org>
posted To: <whatsup-neohio@igc.topica.com>
Independent Media Center
http://www.cleveland.indymedia.org:8081
author: stav (stavrosthehunter@yahoo.com)
Summary: An Emergency Resolution: Supporting the men and women serving
in the armed forces an honoring their commitment to our national
safety and security; opposing unilateral military actions against Iraq
and urging President Bush to continue seeking a peaceful resolution of
issues with Iraq in a diplomatic manner.
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On January 27 of 2003 Cleveland City Council unanimously passed a
resolution in opposition to unilateral military action against Iraq.
Over one hundred people gathered outside city hall an hour before the
council came to order to rally support for the measure. The full
transcript of the resolution can be found here.
This marks Cleveland as the 50th city nationwide -- and the very first
in Ohio -- to adopt such a resolution. A complete list of all cities
that have passed resolutions can be found at www.citiesforpeace.org.
For more coverage and audio interviews tune to wruw FM 91.1 Tuesday
Jan. 28, 6-7:00 PM.
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Active Campaigns are Under Way in the Following Cities:
[if your city is not on this list, contact:
http://www.citiesforpeace.org/ ]
California: Los Angeles, Sacramento
Colorado: Crestone, La Veta, Saguache, Silver Plume, Walsenburg
Connecticut: Cornwall
Florida: Gainesville, Manatee County, St. Petersburg,
Hawaii: Honolulu
Illinois: Charleston, DeKalb, East Moline, Moline, Oak Park,
Rock Island, Silvis
Iowa: Clive, Davenport, Decorah
Maryland: Cheverly
Maine: Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Portland
Massachusetts: Amherst
Michigan: Alma, Berkley, Charlevoix, Clawson, Grand Rapids,
Lake Orion, Lansing, Livonia, Marquette, Petoskey,
Plymouth, Resort Township, Royal Oak, Southfield,
Troy
Missouri: Columbia
Montana: Helena
New Jersey: Bloomfield
New York: Cooperstown, New York City
North Carolina: Chapel Hill
Ohio: Columbus, Dayton
Oregon: Multnomah County, Salem
Texas: Austin, Corpus Christie, Dallas, Galveston, Houston
Utah: Salt Lake City, Virginia, Charlottesville
Washington: Bellingham, Spokane
West Virginia: Charleston
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Cities for Peace is a rapidly growing effort to get City Councils and
other civic bodies to pass resolutions against a war on Iraq. Civic
and religious leaders, educators, peace activists, business leaders
and individuals from all sectors are coming together across the
country to say "no" to Bush's call for war. We the people of the U.S.
are wary of a military venture against a country that has not attacked
us. We are fearful that a war will lead to the deaths of thousands of
Iraqis and US troops. We see this as a potentially dangerous
distraction from fighting terrorism and we are aware that such a war
would have devastating consequences on our city budgets and on local
capacity to meet the current needs of our own communities in these
difficult economic times.
We need to exercise our democratic rights by pressing our local
elected officials and other public institutions to pass resolutions
expressing the will of local communities with regard to a war with
Iraq. It is imperative that local officials weigh in on national
matters that will ultimately have enormous impacts on our communities.
Please join us! This website is a hub to link the many City Council
resolutions and campaigns across the country. It is a testament to the
growing unease that people across the country are feeling about Bush's
preemptive strike policy and our commitment to cultivating a world
based on peace and justice.
Citiesforpeace.org brought to you by the Institute for Policy Studies.
http://www.citiesforpeace.org/
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 WSF Continues Amid Differing Visions
Events at the third day, Saturday, January 25, of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil were in sharp contrast to the scene at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Read: entire article | CMI Brasil english coverage | special report from Tallahassee-Red Hills IMC
| antiwar audio | Lula Goes to Davos
However, the WSF is gradually becoming more like the structures it was envisioned to oppose. Examples of this range from access limitations for independent reporters to the attendance [ audio ] of Brazilian President Lula at the WEF. Concern over this was expressed on Sunday when the president of PT (Worker's Party) was pied [ 1 | video ].
Further coverage includes IPS TerraViva reports [ Jan 26 ] , and ongoing reports sent to various IMC websites, including Melbourne [ 1 ], Western Mass [ 2 ], and Portland [ 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ]. Feature coverage includes Frutillas y crema para el presidente del PT (es), Otro Foro es posible? (es), Wereld Sociaal Forum in Brazilie van start (nl), World Social Forum 3 (nl/fr), Foro Sociale Mondiale (it), Porto Alegre 2003 (es), WEF in Davos and WSF in Porto Alegre 2003 (de), and previous global features [ January 25 | Jan 24 | Jan 22 | Jan 30, 2002 ].
[ CMI Brasil | infoposible | Choike ]
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Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.
But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800’s by establishing the doctrine of Corporate Personhood -- the claim that corporations were intended to enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.
We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them. Granting corporations the status of legal "persons" effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests. Ultimately, the doctrine of Corporate Personhood grants a thing illegitimate privilege and power that undermines our freedom and authority as citizens. While corporations are setting the agenda on issues in our Congress and courts, "We the People" are not; for we can never speak as loudly with our own voices as corporations can with the unlimited amplification of money.
Reclaimdemocracy.org Corporate Personhood
Here is a link to electronically send a message to the ACLU to get involved in the
Kasky v. Nike Inc. case as discussed in the Progressive Populist article below.
Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights
a new book by Thom Hartmann
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pule: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. pule [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Tuesday January 28, 2003
pule PYOOL, intransitive verb:
To whimper; to whine.
The first lady initially flourished as a wronged wife precisely because she endured her humiliation so stoically; she did not whine or pule or treat her pain as license to behave badly.
--Michelle Cottle, "God Almighty," New Republic, September 6, 1999
But my self-absorbed fretting and puling always come to an abrupt end with some surprise gift.
--Thomas J. McCarthy, "Stay-at-Home Dad," America, February 26, 2000
Pule is perhaps from French piauler, "to whine, to pule," ultimately of imitative origin.
Synonyms: mewl, snivel, whimper, whine. Find more at Thesaurus.com.
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Lincoln's worst fears coming true
By Thom Hartmann
While Nike was conducting a huge and expensive PR blitz to tell people that it had cleaned up its subcontractors' sweatshop labor practices, an alert consumer advocate and activist in California named Marc Kasky caught them in what he alleges are a number of specific deceptions. Citing a California law that forbids corporations from intentionally deceiving people in their commercial statements, Kasky sued the multi-billion-dollar corporation.
Instead of refuting Kasky's charge by proving in court that they didn't lie, however, Nike instead chose to argue that corporations should enjoy the same "free speech" right to deceive that individual human citizens have in their personal lives. If people have the constitutionally protected right to say, "The check is in the mail," or, "That looks great on you," then, Nike's reasoning goes, a corporation should have the same right to say whatever they want in their corporate PR campaigns.
They took this argument all the way to the California Supreme Court, where they lost. The next stop is the US Supreme Court and the battle lines are already forming.
For example, in a column in the New York Times supporting Nike's position, Bob Herbert wrote, "In a real democracy, even the people you disagree with get to have their say."
Help Us Persuade the ACLU that Our Bill of Rights is for People, Not Corporations http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/
Thom Hartmann is the author of Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
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January 28, 1917
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, speaking in Seattle, said, "The only people whose names are recorded in history are those who did something. The peaceful and indifferent are forgotten; they never know the fighting joy of living."
Thanks to Workday Minnesota
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