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Over-the-Wall Strategies

  • Put the Demos Back Into Democracy

    There are two kinds of activist groups, equally (in)effective. Which are you? And why? Pop-up activists tend their topiary and anguish over bathroom fixtures until… a Big Bad Issue pops up and invigorates them. Permanent Waves—the second kind of activist group—inhabit longstanding, institutionalized power zip codes nestled among other shrubbery in the nonprofit landscape.

  • Corporate Campaign Cash at the Caterpillar Stage (Not fuzzy at all)

    Do you think you can understand butterflies perfectly well without knowing caterpillars? Corporate political contributions had a caterpillar stage; I’m guessing you won’t even recognize it.

  • Decommissioning Corporate “Magic”

    Would you like to neutralize corporations’ ability to get so many GOOD laws declared unconstitutional? There’s an “app” for that—-an approach, that is.

  • About that “Seat at the Table”…

    You want a Seat at the Table. You fight for it. You get it. Yippee. Let’s consider it. (Welcome back to the DTP Blog. I’ve been absent from this table because, among other things, May is a huge month for gardening in Wisconsin and mine needed lots of TLC so I could put food on…

  • Why There Aren’t Any Jokes About Regulatory Agencies

    OK, here’s a joke about a regulatory agency, as told by the corporate manager of a big polluting factory. He says… So, I’m in my office one day and the Man from EPA comes in and slams down a huge stack of papers, saying—You’ve got 22,221 violations, and you better do something about them by…

  • Let’s Get Smart About ALEC

    Gather a bundle of your inkiest exclamation points to put at the end of the next sentence. An outfit called ALEC, funded by wealthy right-wing ideologues, has put together a collection of model laws that they like, and is trying to get legislatures to pass them!!!!!

  • A Corporate Anthropologist Walks Into a Blog…

    There are two kinds of corporate anthropologists. First, the kind that works for corporations and gets paid. I’m the other kind. The first kind works for and with corporations to increase worker productivity, advise what color greeting card to send a Chinese executive, or figure out how to sell personal hygiene products to Mayan grandmothers.…

  • Frackin’ Keystone

    Gotcha. There, I did it. Used two of the hottest current keywords to draw you in, and here you are. Thanks for visiting, I’ll make it worth your while. They’re but two buzz words in a long line — longer than the trains stretching to the horizon, carrying crude (very crude) oil, frack sand, and…

  • State “Laboratories of Democracy” Threatened, Overlooked (2007)

    How to be sure that toy under the holiday tree has no lead paint? With only a month of shopping days remaining, the public depends—more than at any other time—on our federal regulatory agencies’ ability to protect us from health and safety risks from toys, clothing, and other goods. So when an appointed regulator asks…

  • Why a Green Future is “Unconstitutional” and What to Do About It (2008)

    Working in tandem with a cooperative Supreme Court, corporate lawyers have insinuated themselves into the US Constitution like retroviruses, rewriting Constitutional code so that instead of protecting human persons from an oppressive government, the Constitution has been twisted to shield corporate persons (corporations) from control by the governments that create them.

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