http://www.corporationsbehavingbadly.org/ Restoring Citizen Sovereignty and Democracy en-us Copyright 2005 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:00:00 -0800 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:00:00 -0800 http://www.stationware.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss sspanier@kuci.org Steve Spanier Corporations Behaving Badly Restoring Citizen Sovereignty and Democracy ( KUCI 88.9fm in Irvine ) sspanier@kuci.org News & Politics An interview with Jeff Milchen, Founder and Director of ReclaimDemocracy.org. Jeff is also Co-Founder and Outreach Director of the American Independent Business Alliance, a.k.a. AMIBA, which helps communities form coalitions to prevent chain stores from displacing local businesses. Previous to ReclaimDemocracy.org, he was instrumental in establishing the Boulder Independent Business Alliance. Jeff has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Korea Herald, The Ecologist, American Prospect and Inc. Magazine. He lives and works in Bozeman, MT. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Jeff%20Milchen.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Jeff%20Milchen.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Daphne Wysham, who is a Fellow and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network (a.k.a. SEEN), a project of IPS, and founder and co-host of Earthbeat Radio, which airs on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington. Earthbeat Radio is being syndicated to other stations nationwide. She is also a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting, an energy writer for UPI, a board advisory to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a Senior Fellow with the Sierra Club, and a member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. A former editor-in-chief of Greenpeace Magazine, Ms. Wysham's analysis and critiques have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and on BBC, NPR, and Marketplace, among others. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Daphne%20Wysham.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Daphne%20Wysham.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Nikki Daruwala. Steve and Nikki discuss the state of American labor. Nikki is Director of the Socially Responsible Business Program at American Rights at Work, a Washington DC-based labor policy and advocacy organization. Prior to her current position, she was Manager for Advocacy and Social Policy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible mutual fund company. Ms. Daruwala is an expert in the fields of corporate social responsibility, diversity, labor relations, and international human and labor rights. She has led investigations on international child labor abuses among US garment exporters and consumer/worker safety violations at major supermarket chains. In addition to her role at American Rights at Work, Ms. Daruwala is a founding member of the Child Labor Coalition, served as Chairperson of the Indigenous Rights Committee and the Diversity Committee at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and served on the Board of the Shareholder Advisory and Policy Committee of the Social Investment Forum. She has worked with several major U.S. and international corporations in developing comprehensive workplace policies and programs and is active in a number of labor and civil rights organizations. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Nikki%20Daruwala.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Nikki%20Daruwala.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Jerry Mander. Jerry is Co-Director and Founder of the International Forum on Globalization, an alliance of 60 leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. He is also the program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, a land conservation organization, and a senior fellow at the Public Media Center, a marketing organization helping nonprofit groups. In the 1960s, Jerry was president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established the Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991), The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local, co-edited with Edward Goldsmith (1996), and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible. He has a masters degree in economics. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Jerry%20Mander.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Jerry%20Mander.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Jennifer Rockne, Co-Founder and Director of the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA). a national non-profit organization that works with communities to launch and perpetuate local Independent Business Alliances. AMIBA's mission is to reverse the trend of chains displacing locally-owned independent businesses while restoring authority over community future to the people who call it "home." Jennifer provides evidence of the disappearance of independent, locally-owned businesses, discusses the problems associated with this trend, and describes how independent business alliances can help communities restore their character. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Track01.cda http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Track01.cda Podcasts Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, one of the brightest young activists in the country. Kaitlin is Director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, an organization that educates citizens about the illegitimate seizure of our authority to govern ourselves. Kaitlin and DUHC recently won an historic battle for local control with the passing of Humboldt County’s Measure T. Measure T outlaws governmental control by non-local corporations. Listen to this interview if you want some great tips on organizing successful activist campaigns from one of America’s brightest young talents! http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Kaitlin%20Sopoci.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Kaitlin%20Sopoci.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:00:00 -0800 An interview with Dr. David Korten, author of many books including the very popular When Corporations Rule the World and his latest, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. In this interview, Dr. Korten describes the crossroads at which humanity finds itself. After 5,000 years of Empire, characterized by hierarchical rule of the elite, oppression of the masses and depletion of the planet’s resources, we face a sobering choice: a return to Earth Community (characterized by the cooperative interaction between equals and recognition of the interconnectedness of all Earth’s inhabitants and ecosystems) or global crisis. The choice is ours – we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/David%20Korten.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/David%20Korten.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:00:00 -0800 Steve expresses his views on the current state of the media in our country and interviews Jeff Cohen, author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media" and Emily Rusch, a consumer and budget advocate with CALPIRG. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Track01.cda http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Track01.cda Podcasts Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:00:00 -0800 Steve interviews Walden Bello, one of the foremost experts on globalization and the WTO, IMF, and World Bank in the world. He has written numerous books on economics and politics, teaches in the Phillipines, and is founder of the organization Focus on the Global South http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Walden%20Bello.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Walden%20Bello.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:00:00 -0800 Interview with Mehul Thakker, 2006 Green Party Candidate for CA Treasurer. Topics include the role of the State Treasurer, the benefits of investing with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and more http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Mehul%20Thakker.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Mehul%20Thakker.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:00:00 -0800 David Smith, UCI Sociology professor, discusses globalization. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/David%20Smith.mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/David%20Smith.mp3.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:00:00 -0800 Eric Tang, Communication Coordinator for the California Clean Money Campaign, discusses Proposition 89, which is on the ballot in CA for Nov. 2006 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Eric%20Tang%20Backup2.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Eric%20Tang%20Backup2.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:00:00 -0800 Stacy Mitchell, Senior Researcher with the New Rules Project, discusses her latest book "Big Box Swindle" http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Stacy%20Mitchell%20backup.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/736/Stacy%20Mitchell%20backup.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:00:00 -0800