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The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/the-lewis-powell-memo-corporate-blueprint-to-/blog/36466/Greenpeace has the full text of the Lewis Powell Memo available for review, as well as analyses of how Lewis Powell's suggestions have impacted the realms of politics, judicial law, communications and education.
Forty years ago today, on August 23, 1971, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an attorney from Richmond, Virginia, drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that describes a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society.
Powell and his friend Eugene Sydnor, then-chairman of the Chambers education committee, believed the Chamber had to transform itself from a passive business group into a powerful political force capable of taking on what Powell described as a major ongoing attack on the American free enterprise system.
An astute observer of the business community and broader social trends, Powell was a former president of the American Bar Association and a board member of tobacco giant Philip Morris and other companies. In his memo, he detailed a series of possible avenues of action that the Chamber and the broader business community should take in response to fierce criticism in the media, campus-based protests, and new consumer and environmental laws.
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The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy (Original Post)
steve2470
May 2012
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saras
(6,670 posts)1. So much for attacks on "conspiracy theory".
LASlibinSC
(269 posts)2. Lewis Powell..jeez
sounds innocuous, more like evil genius. Talk about the boogie man! Terrorist? Puts him imo up there with Cheney. Great link!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)4. There should be no doubt about the war on the middle class. nm