Source: wikipedia, history of articles of incorporation in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_association#History_of_corporations_in_the_United_States
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#corporations #corruption #ushistory

"Corporations did not have the same corporate veil of protection that are enjoyed today.

"The shift towards corporations gaining more power and control happened as the US progressed towards industrialization. The Civil War wildly enriched corporations and with this new wealth came bribes to legislators and courts that allowed for increased liability protection and other corporate protections. The 1886 #SCOTUS case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific decided that #corporations were people"

"The Delaware General Corporation Law: The statute itself is an enabling statute intended to permit corporations and their shareholders the maximum flexibility in ordering their affairs. As such, it does not purport to be a code of conduct. Indeed, it is written with a bias against regulation."
- from "Why Corporations Choose Delaware", a document produced by the Delaware Department of State

Full PDF here:
https://corpfiles.delaware.gov/whycorporations_web.pdf
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#Delaware #corporations #corruption #usa

Who’s Who in the Google Monopoly Trial - The federal government’s first monopoly trial this century will feature top tech executiv... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/technology/google-trial-judge-plaintiffs.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #suitsandlitigation(civil) #computersandtheinternet #decisionsandverdicts #justicedepartment #attorneysgeneral #kanterjonathans #searchengines #corporations #pichaisundar #mehtaamitp #walkerkent #googleinc #software

What we need is progressive thinking, not more of the same.
“…two-thirds of voters wanting the government to increase wealth taxes, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves last month emphasised that she won’t. And although 63% of Brits think taxes on the rich are too low, Starmer has made clear that he doesn’t want to raise income tax for top earners, saying his driving principle is, rather, to lower taxes. Only 5% think the rich pay too much tax...” #corporations #taxtherich
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-party-big-business-keir-starmer-lobbying-donations-ditch-progressive-policies/

The #CitizensUnited decision — which extended #FreeSpeechRights to #corporations, #nonprofits & #unions — effectively curbed efforts to rein in #political spending, while paving the way for follow-up rulings from courts & the #FEC that would unleash additional billions of dollars in donations. Those donors would spawn a boom in #TaxExempt “#charitable” & “#SocialWelfare” groups as vehicles for spending on political activity.

@passenger @bencourtice @deflarerOfClouds @eniko

The.core problem is #capitalism and that it incentivizes #unsustainability & #profits over #sustainability and #society because that's what the laws incentivize.
In fact #public #corporations have to maximize profits ba all means legally possible or risk getting sued by shareholders.

Whereas #cooperatives are also bound to their members/shareholders but with the demand to be sustainable.
Same goes with #subsidies for unsustaonable #agriculture.

The #US #legal system is not at all about #justice, but about justifying our #carceral #PrisonIndustrialComplex which imprisons people at a much higher rate than any other country—about as many as #China—while, obscenely, inhumanely, and unjustly, creating massive #profits for both "#PrivatePrison" #corporations and contractors for #government-run #jails and #prisons.

Our entire system must be rebuilt, and #courtrooms need to be included in that process.

https://youtu.be/gHA7jEm9xMA?si=1SOAsvoKUwJq0Vh-

If #Corporations Bore the True Cost of Their #Emissions, They’d Owe Trillions
And that doesn’t even include “downstream” #carbon spewing.
The true cost of #climate #pollution? 44% of corporate profits.
Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for #fossilfuels. https://grist.org/economics/true-cost-carbon-pollution-half-of-corporate-profits-climate/
#climatechange #climatecrisis

#BigOilDidThis #BigOilBurnThis @liberal_party @TheDemocrats @NDP @Europarl_EN #BigOil #OilAndGas #Corporations #Executives charge with #ClimateHomicide! #airpollution 7–9 million die annually, #HealthcareCosts $trillions #ClimateChange costs $trillions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/big-oil-companies-homicide-harvard-environmental-law-review

#spanish #capitalism #corporations #eattherich #nomegusta

Listed as a reason to learn Spanish...because of course you want to contribute to capitalism, don't you??? /s

I don't give a fuck about corporations

Me importan un carajo las corporaciones

COMER LOS RICOS

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/09/should-you-be-eating-more-seaweed/

“If [#corporations] create 1,000-acre #monoculture #farms, we’re just re-creating the problems of the #past”
#DeterioratingCarbonSinks

In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google - The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #computersandtheinternet #lawandlegislation #justicedepartment #kanterjonathans #searchengines #corporations #pichaisundar #mehtaamitp #walkerkent #googleinc

What can corporations learn from the mistakes of traditional capitalism?

“If we continue to live in the world where shareholder value is the only thing that is valued, we will burn up and die,” says Beth Thoren at Patagonia.

Listen to my interview with Beth on the @mongabay Newscast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QDLvDIKSdZrcfT0wpLTxc?si=e_2WbIlSRaydaDuwu_obRg

#Podcast #News #Nature #Corporations #ClimateChange #Capitalism

"Invasive species costs global economy $664 billion per year says #UN report."

The #UnitedNothings who serve the trillionaire class of #capitalists & #fascists are now using our #animal ancestors as an #excuse for #inflation, #price #gouging & the #cost of living #crisis. Must be hard up to avoid the #facts of what #corporations do 24/7, fucking #bootlicking swine!

#classwar #ausgov #unitednations #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #eattherich #ecology #econotego #antifascist #anticapitalist #earth #australia #fuckthesystem

https://youtu.be/_AnMS0sYgDQ?feature=shared

Organized labor, unions, are the best way to fight #CorporateGreed, against environmental destruction! Global labour must reverse the despicable robbery that #corporations have carried out for decades. @liberal_party @TheDemocrats @NDP @Europarl_EN @POTUS @JustinTrudeau

Businesses dropped the ball on Russia sanctions in 2014, but 2022 is different

#russia #sanctions #corporatestrategy #corporatesocialresponsibility #ukraine #ukrainewar #esg #europe #ukrainesupport #corporate #corporations #boycott #csr

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2023/russia-sanctions-boycotts-working/782441

@KeithDJohnson
Yes, we cottoned onto this many years ago, most #philanthropy is #fauxlanthropy.

A brilliant documentary on how #thePeople have been systematically transitioned from being an active '#citizen' to a docile '#consumer' is The Century Of The Self (#AdamCurtis/BBC, 2002).

It cover a suite of propaganda techniques used to #engineerConsent for all manner of abuse by large #corporations.

Today’s reminder that giant corporations are NOT your friend and not to be trusted: 3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs #Capitalism #Corporations #ThreeM #3m #legal #Settlement https://qz.com/3m-is-paying-5-5-billion-to-resolve-300-000-lawsuits-o-1850780085

Google Books

book: Texas After The Civil War

"With the demise of the Davis administration, the Texas Democratic party took over the reins of government and controlled them virtually unchallenged until the middle of the twentieth century. At least through the nineteenth century, the Redeemer Democrats who represented the plantation, merchant, and railroad interests that had come to dominate the party by the end of Reconstruction remained in control and shaped not only party policy but also that of the state government. Their basic positions on public affairs began to be formed almost immediately during the sessions of the Fourteenth Legislature as party leaders attempted to secure three major goals. The first was to lower taxes as much as possible, a purpose that cemented small farmers to the party and fulfilled the desires of the large landed interests of the state, including planters and by this time the railroads. The second objective was the continued encouragement of economic development through aid to railroads and other such endeavors, though without raising taxes. And the third was securing the state's landed interests' control over labor. A new constitution in 1876 provided the institutional framework that assured that the Redeemers achieved these ends. Democratic politics throughout the rest of the century revolved around the use of whatever means were needed to maintain power to meet the party's aims.

"The Fourteenth Legislature began the process necessary for Democrats to gain their political goals, but from the beginning, party leaders realized that achieving them required changes in the basic institutions of government. As a result, during the first session, they initiated efforts at writing a new consti- tution. Governor Coke and other Democratic leaders originally wanted law- makers to carry out this task, avoiding the costs of a convention and also lim- iting the possibilities that an open fight would take place between the party's regular leadership and the agrarians. A committee drafted a document that differed from the Constitution of 1869, before its amendment, primarily in its provisions for supporting internal improvements and carrying out elections. The proposal confirmed the use of land grants as a means of encouraging the development of a transportation system, maintained a system of voter regis tration, and added the requirement that all voters had to pay a poll tax, a feature clearly intended to restrict black participation. What would have been the Constitution of 1874 failed to pass both houses of the legislature, however. This led to a constitutional convention in 1875.

"The convention met at Austin on September 6, 1875, and remained in ses- sion for almost three months. Democrats dominated the proceedings, and even though disputes developed between the delegates who represented the controlling interests of the party and agrarians-possibly forty of the ninety delegates were members of the Grange-they produced a draft constitution..."

chapter: Conservative Triumph
page 199

#confederacy
#CivilWar
#history #USHistory
#conservatives
#taxes
#LaborRights
#corporations