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About ELSI `FIND BOTH SIDES TO THE ISSUES IN OUR NEWS FORUMS:` Free Markets, Globalization, and Civil Liberties Energy Global Warming Food Health,Safety, and Pollution Towards Sustainable Solutions Radio Show 9-3: HOW RELIABLE IS OUR ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE? Guestbook Poems Contact Us	CORPORATIONS AND FREE MARKETS: A PERFECT FIT? WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS? TELL US UPCOMING CONFERENCE (AN EXCERPT FROM SPONSORS) Although immense corporate bodies now wield definitive influence over our economy, politics, educational agenda and popular consciousness, curiously little attention has been paid to their evolution, common attributes or basic nature. Many decades ago, large organizations were recognized as true "living systems." That is, they behave purposefully, cohere over time, adapt to their environment, ingest/process/excrete substances, display homeostatic reflexes, maintain an internal sense of self/identity, respond (aggressively/ defensively) to perceived threats, learn, grow, multiply, age, die, etc. Astoundingly, the full implications of this insight - that our species shares the biosphere with an exponentially larger, more powerful and rapidly evolving life form that may not necessarily share our values or aspirations - have never been adequately explored. For those who sense these bodies’ scale and activities now pose a clear and present danger to our cultures, environment or evolutionary future, let that exploration begin here... more Environmentalists Endorse Green Shareholder Resolutions A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty, and Restore Economic Sanity It's time to end corporate welfare as we know it Ralph Nader Monsanto Moves to Control Water Resources & Fish Farming in India & the Third World --Vandana Shiva THE CORPORATE - GOVERNMENT REVOLVING DOOR Ending Corporate Governance Monsanto employees and government regulatory agencies employees are the same people! The Impacts of Raising Federal Limits on Contributions to Campaigns Corporate Rule 1999 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program Congressional Resolution Proposed to Withdraw from WTO The World Trade Organization Seeks to Govern the World on Behalf of Transnational Corporations SEATTLE AND BEYOND: DISARMING THE NEW WORLD ORDER Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative The WTO and Free Trade--Taking a Closer Look at the New World Order of the Transnational Corporations			RELATED SHARED CAPITALISM INSTITUTE FREE MARKET NET COINTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE MILTON FRIEDMAN Green Living verses Corporate Control A Handbook on Socially-Oriented Shareholder Activism WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION AND THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY World Trade Organization Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy Corporate Watch Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center Alliance for Democracy Citizens Against Political Corruption
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