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Look to Congress for Supreme Court Fix (2010)
by Jane Anne Morris How is it unconstitutional for a state to require place-of-origin labels on meat? Regulate sale of its water? Establish worker protections stricter than federal standards? Where does the US Constitution say that states cannot require that toxic waste be sorted and labeled? Cannot include labor standards in state purchasing policy? Cannot…
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Help, I’ve Been Colonized and I Can’t Get Up (1998) (Take a lawyer and an expert to a hearing and call me in a decade…)
by Jane Anne Morris A third of your friends are locked down in an old growth grove or at a corporate headquarters, with law enforcement officers rubbing pepper spray in their eyes. Another third are preparing testimony so you can be persuasive at a generic regulatory agency while you’re begging them to enforce a tiny…
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The Case for Un-Building America: Watch Where You Put Your Stimulus Package (2009)
by Jane Anne Morris The Run-Up to Collapse Today as many hundreds of billions of dollars are flying out of federal coffers to bail out and bulk up The Economy, it is instructive to review a few of the places we have not put enough money in the last decades. Universal single-payer health care; living…
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Meat, ‘Free Trade’ and Democracy: As Goes South Korea, So Went Missouri (2008)
By Jane Anne Morris In the Spring of 2008, tens of thousands of South Koreans held candlelight vigils every day for over a month to protest being forced to accept beef from the United States. The US government claims that barring our beef is an illegal “trade barrier.” This isn’t the first time the US…
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“Free Trade’s” Footprint a Decade after Seattle (2010)
By Jane Anne Morris On this Tenth Anniversary of the “Battle for Seattle,” we could celebrate, we should commemorate, but we must evaluate. Right, then. What seemed so important at the time? It is difficult to even see back to 1999 without becoming lost among other landmark events soon to bask in their own…
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A Green Look at the Wisconsin Spring (2011)
By Jane Anne Morris September 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. The legislative recall elections generated by the Wisconsin Spring demonstrations are over. Democrats failed to retake the state Senate, gaining only two seats over the fall 2010 total. Republicans now hold the Senate by a 17–16 margin, and retain control of the Assembly and governor’s mansion. In…
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Corporations for the Seventh Generation, Part 2 (1996)
Part II: Corporations for the Seventh Generation In view of the historic provisions noted in Part I that used to govern corporations, their representatives must be pleased that at least in this country, boycotts and divestment strategies are considered radical, and “dialoging” is the preferred mode of interaction. The rest of this paper is an…
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Corporations for the Seventh Generation, Part 1 (1996)
By Jane Anne Morris Part 1: Legacy Of The Founding Parents The people who founded this nation didn’t fight a war so that they could have a couple of “citizen representatives” sitting in on meetings of the British East India Company. They carried out a revolution in order to be free of oppression: corporate,…