How do we fight back against the rule of Corporations?

[Roland99]

With OUR dollars.

By not giving them OUR dollars.

By giving OUR dollars to other individuals as much as possible.


Buy food at a farmer's market.

Buy clothes from consignment shops.

Stop going in debt in order to buy things and giving up OUR dollars in the form of interest (profits) to banks.

Stop giving OUR dollars to the criminal Too Big To Fail banks and focusing on operating on a cash basis or, at the least, using sound local banks.

By consuming only what we need, not what corporations want us to have (upgrading a cell phone every 6 months? Why? To give them more money? Buying a new car every 2-3 years? Why? To give them more money?

By not supporting politicians and entire parties that continue to favor corporations over individuals. And letting them know loudly why we are not supporting them.


We ultimately have the power but it will come only if we, as a society, completely change the herd mentality and stop following what corporations want us to do.




EDIT: Forgot to mention. Look at what the State of New Mexico did. Moving all of their accounts from the big bastards to the local banks!

[asdjrocky]

1. You close them down.

Human chain.

We are beyond speaking with our dollars because we don't have enough of them.

People need to get mad and get in the streets.

[sharesunited]

2. How about buying shares and giving them hell by virtue of your legal standing as shareholder?

[Roland99]

5. Unless you can buy 51% of the shares, won't matter.

[provis99]

8. since shareholders don't pick the CEOs, the CEOs don't give a shit.

won't work.

[sharesunited]

11. They do pick the board, which picks the CEO.

And if you don't have shareholders who are willing to accept performance which puts profit behind other more socially desirable objectives, then you won't be combating corporatism.

We need to change that system from within, because they are making it impossible to change from outside (i.e., through their lobbying, campaign finance, and political speech).

[Crazy Dave]

3. They'd still get our tax dollars through subsidies n/t

[Mister Ed]

7. Exactly. The corporations that threaten us don't care about our piddly purchasing power.

That's because the real source of their income is the federal trough. And we're forced to keep pouring our tax dollars into that trough. And they use some of the money they siphon out of the trough to bribe our politicians to keep engorging them at our expense. And so on.

There are plenty of corporations that are still in the business of business. They produce goods and services that they hope we'll want to buy, and they care very much whether they have us as customers. Long may they live.

Other corporations are increasingly in the business of bribery, theft and extortion, and we are increasingly under their boot. I hope we can break their grip. A culture of institutionalized corruption like this one can be very difficult to change.

[Crazy Dave]

13. What the majority of US companies get from computers to autos and Walmart and Mcdonalds....

Is hundreds of millions (each) to build factories and stores overseas under the guise of "promoting American goods abroad". A lot of GM's bailout money went towards expanding overseas factories while downsizing here stateside and closing dealerships. Brazil, Russia and India all either had new plants built or expanded and all using bailout money or tax payer subsidies to "promote abroad" and "be competitive".

[ixion]

4. Incorporate

:evilgrin:

Beat them at their own game. ;)

[my2sense]

6. K & R

[Kievan Rus]

9. Raise their taxes big time

[maryf]

10. General Strikes, on a regular basis...nt

[SoCalDem]

12. The problem is that they are "the company store" we work for them.

This is the problem we have now.. we cut back, they make less, there is less to sell to the fewer people who still can afford goods & services, but the workers get laid off as sales drop, and it touches everyone in one degree or another, and the spiral keeps going down down down down.

we used to make stuff here and sell "there".. now we make stuff "there" and need to sell it here.

[Roland99]

14. That is a bit of conundrum but *if* we were able to get back to local economies

then we could reinvent things in a way.