Tag Archives: corporations

The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-24: Local produce is better than government by corporation

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 24 February 2010

No more payphones: ACS pay phones across the state will be gone by April 30 http://bit.ly/coFN3f # @feliciaday Make sure you’re getting enough magnesium & other minerals! Important to look out for on low-carb diets. in reply to feliciaday # @megancarriker @feliciaday Here is a better & more accurate account on carbs as “necessary.” They’re not. http://bit.ly/apfvjj [...]

Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 6 February 2010

One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.

Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Polis | Also tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, science fiction, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing | 2 Comments

Money as “free speech”: Colbert, Maddow, & me

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 23 January 2010

Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED -- & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations.

Posted in Polis | Also tagged Citizens United v. FEC, Daughter Number Three (blog), democracy, Democratic Party, free speech, good government bad government, health care reform, political parties, psychopathy, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party, The Colbert Report (TV), U.S. Supreme Court | 2 Comments

Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons

By Mel | Published: Friday, 22 January 2010

Sign the Motion to Amend: part of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy's campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood. It's time to take democracy back.

Posted in Polis | Also tagged abolish corporate personhood, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, Citizens United v. FEC, Exxon Valdez, good government bad government, Progressive Alaska (blog), Rikki Ott, U.S. Consitution, U.S. Supreme Court, Ultimate Civics | 2 Comments

Government by psychopathy

By Mel | Published: Friday, 22 January 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had granted the fake-persons known as corporations vast new powers of "free speech" by which to further corrupt American democracy.

Posted in Polis | Also tagged Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API), Citizens United v. FEC, diabetes, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, free speech, GMO (genetically modified organisms & foods), good government bad government, Haiti, Jim Gottstein, Joel Bakan, Monsanto, natural disasters, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychopathy, Shaun of the Dead (movie), The Corporation (book and film), U.S. Supreme Court, zombies, Zyprexa | 5 Comments

The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 21 January 2010

The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty much unlimited “free speech” in campaign advertising. This is one I’ve been watching. Democracy in [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianism, Citizens United v. FEC, earthquake, good government bad government, HAARP, Haiti, Mormon Church (LDS), Prop 8, same-sex marriage, Sarah Palin, Shannyn Moore, U.S. Supreme Court | 2 Comments

Haiti: Disaster profiteering v. helping Haiti rebuild for Haitians

By Mel | Published: Friday, 15 January 2010

"We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy — which is part natural, part unnatural — must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations" (Naomi Klein). How can we help rebuild Haiti for Haitians?