From Publishers Weekly
Some policy analysts believe our government is so beholden to corporate interests that it is morphing from democracy to plutocracy. Danaher and Mark, co-founder and communication director, respectively, of the human rights group Global Exchange, believe citizens can fight back against corporate rule, and here they detail cases where they have done so to protect the environment and public health, and to protest corporate links to abusive regimes and oppose economic globalization. Different chapters focus on the fight against sweatshops abroad (”one of the most vigorous strands” of the anti-globalization fight), the long legal fight against Big Tobacco and the fight for democracy in Burma, which involves targeting corporations that do business with that repressive regime. Despite setbacks, the movement remains optimistic, the authors note, and anyone interested in learning more about it would do well to start here.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power provides invaluable information about important recent challenges to corporate arrogance by various organizations within the US movement for corporate responsibility. The documented histories of anti-sweat shop, anti-tobacco, anti-WTO, Free Burma, and pro-democracy campaigns make clear that corporations are not invincible. Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark also make a compelling case for why the movement must not only continue to demand responsibility from individual corporations, but must also move on to demand that government enforce corporate accountability in general. Danaher and Mark’s experience as activists as well as researchers makes their discussion of anti-corporate strategy and tactics, and their suggestions for how to transform the movement for corporate responsibility into a movement for global democracy particularly insightful.
–Robin Hahnel, American University, and Author of The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
If you’re waiting for the rallying cry to join the historic battle against global corporate greed, here it is! Insurrection — the time is now.
– Jim Hightower, author of Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take It Back!
If you’re waiting for the rallying cry to join the historic battle against global corporate greed, here it is! Insurrection — the time is now.
– Jim Hightower, author of Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take It Back!
This book is not another sad-faced whine telling us what we already know. It details real victories against corporate dictatorship, and how we can help do more.
–Jello Biafra
Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power provides invaluable information about important recent challenges to corporate arrogance by various organizations within the US movement for corporate responsibility. The documented histories of anti-sweat shop, anti-tobacco, anti-WTO, Free Burma, and pro-democracy campaigns make clear that corporations are not invincible. Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark also make a compelling case for why the movement must not only continue to demand responsibility from individual corporations, but must also move on to demand that government enforce corporate accountability in general. Danaher and Mark’s experience as activists as well as researchers makes their discussion of anti-corporate strategy and tactics, and their suggestions for how to transform the movement for corporate responsibility into a movement for global democracy particularly insightful.
–Robin Hahnel, American University, and Author of The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
This book is not another sad-faced whine telling us what we already know. It details real victories against corporate dictatorship, and how we can help do more.
–Jello Biafra
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