corporate power
The modern day global corporation dominates our lives, affecting our health, our culture, our economic well-being, and the future of the planet itself. Helping communities challenge and beat back corporate abuse is at the core of what the Democracy Center has been about for years.
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Manipulative WAys:
How International Corporations Seize the Natural Resources of Latin America
by Jim Shultz, Founder and Executive Director
Nowhere is unchecked corporate power more ruthless than in the relentless, foreign conquest of natural resources in Latin America. In its flagship 2019 report, the Democracy Center pulls back the curtain on the three essential ways that corporations bend politics and power to get what they want.
International corporations are decimating nature, destroying lives and manipulating opinion. Here's how to stop them.
How the Democracy Center and its allies beat one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.
A resource for corporate campaigners.
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How corporations use global trade rules to bend governments to their will.