John Bonifaz: We Are Not Giving Up on Democracy!

The United States never was a very democratic democracy in the first place. The word democracy comes from the Greek root words “Demos” meaning people and “Kratia” meaning rule. Is there somebody who actually believes the people rule this country? But what meager democracy there is has been under relentless attack from all angles over the last 40 years. Many people have given up on democracy. However, there are people who refuse to give in and due to the tireless organizing of Fix Democracy First and a broad coalition of activist organizations, Washington state now has the best voting system in the country. The list of democracy reforms passed by this coalition in the last 20 years is truly astonishing. Cindy Black, president of Fix Democracy First gives us the rundown, but first we hear from John Bonifaz who gave the keynote address. This show was taped at the FDF 20th anniversary celebration September 9th 2023. 

John Bonifaz is a constitutional attorney and the co-founder and president of Free Speech for People. Mr. Bonifaz previously served as the executive director and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, an organization he founded in 1994, and as the legal director of Voter Action, a national election integrity organization. He has been at the forefront of key voting rights and democracy campaigns in the United States for more than three decades. 

Thanks to Fix Democracy First.

From the Archives: 
David Wasdell: 
Positive Feedback Crisis in Global Climate Change

Update: This program was originally broadcast in 2007 around the time I first started posting and storing Pirate TV shows online. I think it's one of the most important shows I ever made. Feedback dynamics is the most important and terrifying aspect of climate change and David Wasdell is one of the preeminent experts. To this day you almost never hear about it and most people have never heard of it. I have stayed in touch with David Wasdell over the years. His prediction about runaway climate change was off and he admitted it as soon as they discovered it. According to him they miscalculated the forcing from water vapor. While climate change is horrific enough, we have not crossed the tipping point into runaway climate change. However pretty much everything he's talking about here in regards to feedback dynamics are right on the money including the very eminent possibility of a breakdown of the thermohaline circulation. Recent reports suggest that Antarctic global thermohaline circulation has decreased by 30% and some parts may have stopped altogether. I was recently searching for old WMV files when this file popped up. I have decided to share it with you. 

Original write up from 2007:

At the prestigious April 6th Kistler Book Award Ceremony, organized by Seattle's Foundation for the Future, David Wasdell (Director of the Meridian Programme) was introduced as the world's leading authority on the feedback dynamics of climate change. This program is based on the opening keynote presentation he gave the next morning, to the 'Crossroads for Planet Earth' workshop attended by a group of distinguished scholars and scientists also convened by the Foundation for the Future. 

Feedback dynamics concern previously little understood climate mechanisms triggered by global warming which feed back upon themselves accelerating the process and eventually causing runaway global warming. David Wasdell explains that there are 6 categories of feedback mechanisms. Almost all earth’s systems known to effect climate change are now in a state of positive feedback. Because we have squandered the last 20 years, we have already passed the point whereby global climate change can be avoided. What this new information means is: If we don’t take drastic action to save the planet immediately we will soon reach a “tipping point” whereby nothing can stop runaway global warming and there will ensue a mass extinction event the likes of which has only happened 5 times in Earth’s history. The only thing likely to survive will be moss and we are going to suffer greatly on the way out. For those who say: “That’s too depressing to think about”, I say: Just think how depressed you’re going to be when it’s too late to do anything about it. 

Although it’s too late to stop climate change, it can be mitigated until it eventually turns around and there is still time to stop absolute catastrophe, but not much. To those who say: “Sounds like science fiction to me, I didn’t see this on my TV so it must not be true”, I say, you will, but I wouldn’t expect anyone reading this to actually believe their corporate TV would tell them anything important so enough said. However, Time just did a whole issue on this subject last month- “Be worried. Be very worried.” See: http://www.energybulletin.net/14616.html. 

To those who say: “This corporate regime is so corrupt there’s not a chance that we will be able to turn things around in time so we might as well accept that we’ve had it”, I say that it is only inevitable that there will be a massive last ditch effort to save the planet at some point or other. The question is: Will it be too little too late and what will Halliburton and Exxon’s cut be? But seriously, you would be surprised what can happen when you realize that your back is against the wall. One need only remember the Roosevelt era. The President halted auto production by decree, ordered massive armaments production, instituted universal rationing, and mobilized the entire country. So you think this crisis is less serious than the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Check out the attack on New Orleans. That was just the first hit. Hurricane seasons are going to get progressively more catastrophic from here on out. What’s worse, there is a whole arsenal of other weapons aimed at us. Or more accurately- that we are aiming at ourselves. 

First we need to educate ourselves, then we need to wise up our political leaders, if they can’t be wised up, then we need to replace them fast. As David Wasdell points out, every day that we delay increases the monumental task at hand. I spoke to Sen. Maria Cantwell last week. I thanked her for her work on the environment and asked her if she had heard about the feedback crisis. She said she hadn’t. That’s what I’m talking about. 
Originally broadcast May 8th 2007 
Thanks to the Foundation for the Future www.futurefoundation.org See also: www.meridian.org.uk

Bangor Gate Action Blockade

Each year, activists at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action adjacent to the nuclear submarine base at Bangor commemorate the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by holding a weekend of remembrance. This consists of keynote talks, nonviolence training and entertainment. The weekend culminates with a civil disobedience action and the blocking of the entrance to the submarine base. Pirate TV was there and we compiled this short three minute video.

Ann Wright: Save the Planet, Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Col. Anne Wright (ret.) gave this keynote talk at the annual Hiroshima - Nagasaki Weekend of Remembrance and Action. The event is held each year at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo Washington adjacent to the Bangor nuclear submarine base which houses the largest stockpile of deployed nuclear weapons in the world. Colonel Wright gave an update on the summer of peace actions in Europe, Asia and the US. Recorded 8/5/23

Continuing Voyages of the Golden Rule Videos

Voyage of the Phoenix

Many thanks to John Braxton who hosted Me, Helen Jaccard, and Gerry Condon, the support crew of the Golden Rule while we were in Philadelphia. John was a crew member on one of the protest voyages of the Phoenix of Hiroshima when they set sail to Vietnam with a boatload of medical supplies. He recounted his story in the interview I did, "Tales of the Phoenix". John also played this old video for us which he loaned me so that I could take it back to Seattle, digitize it and post it. It garnered no copyright strikes. Apparently it has long been in the public domain. I can find it nowhere on the Internet. Well, now you can. Like the voyage of the Golden Rule and the courageous crew members, the history of the Phoenix is an important chapter of the Anti War movement that should not be erased.

The Golden Rule Family 5/23/23

On May 23rd, 2023 several family members of the original four-man crew of the Golden Rule took a trip around New York Harbor aboard the historic ship. It was the same Golden Rule (restored by Veterans for Peace) that set sail in 1958 from San Pedro (California) with the intent to reach Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands to block a hydrogen bomb test. This historic journey eventually resulted five years later in the Test Ban Treaty of 1963 that ended atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

On board this "reunion" voyage were Alan Willoughby, son of George Willoughby, Larry Huntington nephew of Bill Huntington, and Susan Schnall Current President of Veterans for Peace who was tried and found guilty by general court martial for anti-war activism in 1969.

Later that evening a large crowd including these and several other key figures related to that fateful voyage converged at the historic Friends Seminary, in Manhattan (itself a place that spawned much of the organizing) to discuss and recollect the the people and events that led up to that historic voyage and their legacy of activism.

Thanks to NYC War Resisters League and Peace & Social Justice Committee of the 15th Street Meeting [Friends Siminary].

Communities fight back against military toxins 5/19/23

The Golden Rule set sail with activists from different environmental groups to Newark Bay up toward the Passaic River and Hackensack River entranceways to see industry toxic pollution sites such as the former Agent Orange facility . Along the way the activists fill us in about the issues that these environmentalists and communities have been working on, and why. In this video we hear from: 
*JV Valladolid- Environmental Justice Organizer, Ironbound Community Corporation
*Hugh Carola- Program Director, Hackensack Riverkeeper
*Paula Rogovin - Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains, Don’t Gas the Meadowlands, Teaneck Peace Justice Vigil and
*Terry Fitzgibbons - Veterans For Peace Chapter 21 N. New Jersey
Recorded 5/19/23

David Swanson: Rally at Liberty Park 5/13/23

David Swanson From World Beyond War joined us on the Golden Rule for the ride over from Manhattan to Friends of Liberty Park where we were met by an enthusiastic crowd in spite of the pouring rain. David gave this talk. Recorded 5/20/23


Dean Naujoks: A Conversation with the Riverkeeper 5/13/23

The Golden Rule is the original environmental peace ship. This all started in 1958 when a group of Quaker activists set off for the Marshall Islands to try to intercede and block the hydrogen bomb tests. The crew was arrested in Hawaii when they stopped to refuel. The voyage of the Golden Rule was well publicized as was the arrest of the crew. This arrest didn't sit so well with the captain of another ship, the Phoenix of Hiroshima that was birthed nearby. And so the Phoenix set off to try to complete the mission and sail to the Marshall Islands. The ship was also intercepted and the crew arrested. But the large amount of publicity generated by these actions helped to focus the attention of a wary public on nuclear testing in the atmosphere and lead to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 which banned atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. This was also the impetus for the creation of Greenpeace in 1971. The first Greenpeace voyage to Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands was also to try and stop a U.S. nuclear weapons test.
As the Golden Rule sails up the Eastern Seaboard we have been documenting the large scale toxic contamination generated by the military with the help of investigative journalist Pat Elder, of militarypoisons.org. We have arranged this conversation between Pat and Dean Naujoks of the Riverkeepers Network to give us an update on the waste sites on the Potomac and fill us in on current lawsuits that the Riverkeepers Network is pursuing. 
Recorded 5/8/23

John Braxton: Tales of the Phoenix 5/13/23

In 1958 the Golden Rule embarked on it's historic voyage to sail into the nuclear test zone in the Marshall Islands in order to protest and stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere. The mission was cut short and the crew arrested in Honolulu. However, there was another ship that was birthed nearby which took up the mission to sail into the testing zone. This was the Phoenix of Hiroshima captained by Dr. Earle L. Reynolds who had been sailing around the world with his family. Dr. Reynolds was an anthropologist who had been studying effects of radiation on the surviving children of Hiroshima for the National Academy of Sciences. The journey also ended with his arrest inside the test zone but the publicity and public outcry resulting from the arrest and trials of the crews of these two ships eventually led to the end of atmospheric testing with Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
The Phoenix was subsequently declared a national shrine by the Japanese government, but this wasn't the end of the Phoenix voyages for peace. The Phoenix sailed to protest Soviet nuclear tests in 1961 and made several trips to North Vietnam and China in 1967–1968. John Braxton who was a crew member on one of these trips to Vietnam recounts the story in this video. In 2010 the Phoenix sank in 25 feet of water In Northern California. 
Recorded 5/13/23

The Toxic Legacy of Militarism on the Eastern Seaboard 5/13/23

The Golden Rule sailed up the Eastern seaboard past some of the most toxic areas in the United States. These toxic sites on the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River are a result of more than a century of military activities that poison the land and water and bio-accumulates in the fish and other wildlife. The Potomac River is used as a "firing range" by the US military, resulting in heavy metal, chemical and radioactive contamination. The military also dumped huge quantities of PFAs into the watershed and ground water. PFAs were used as engine cleaners and fire fighting foam. 

The military took over territory of the Piscataway and other indigenous peoples, destroying their land, water, ability to eat the food, and live off of the land - which has a huge impact on their culture. 

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and comprises one of the most productive fisheries. Few people realize the extent to which the fish is toxic, so they eat the fish. When this harm to the US public is taken into account, it can be argued that the greatest danger to the US public by far is not Venezuela, Cuba, Russia or China but the US military itself. 

Investigative journalist Pat Elder joined us at several locations to give us the lowdown. Pat is a peace and environmental activist and the director of Military Poisons. He ran for Congress on the Green Party ticket in Southern Maryland. See also: https://www.militarypoisons.org/ 

Recorded in several locations during April and May 2023.

Philadelphia Welcome 5/9/23

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: "A fully restored, 65-year-old peace boat arrived on the Delaware River waterfront Tuesday, midway along a 15-month voyage around the eastern half of the country. The boat is making 100 ports of call to support local peace initiatives and press the U.S. government to join the 86 countries that have either signed or ratified the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ..."Local peace activists greeted the boat with banners, songs, and waving arms as it docked in the marina across from the Moshulu on Penn’s Landing. City Councilmember Mark Squilla read a proclamation after the Granny Peace Brigade, Brandywine Peace Community, members of Back From the Brink, and the American Friends Service Committee joined the Philadelphia chapter of Veterans for Peace in welcoming the boat, escorted by Gloucester City’s tall ship, the schooner North Wind..." Recorded 5/9/23

Concert for the Golden Rule 5/7/23

The Homewood Friends Meeting in Baltimore MD put on a concert for the Golden Rule. Performers included in order of appearance:
Rhonda Robinson Trio
Poet Dave Eberhardt
Orch Kids Brass Band
Charm City Labor Chorus
Rick Jerram
Dick Ochs
Buzz Merrick
This is some of the highlights.
Recorded Sun, Apr 30, 2023 Later on May 6th, musicians put on a jam at Hutchins Park to celebrate the Golden Rule visit to Havre de Grace MD.

Baltimore Welcome 5/1/23

Ethan Hasiuk, Legislative & Community Affairs Director for Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen presented a resolution of welcome and support to the crew of the Golden Rule about an hour after it was passed unanimously by by the entire City Council. Recorded May 1st 2023 on the 65th anniversary of the arrest of the original crew of the Golden Rule at the Homewood Friends center.

Dr. Vincent Intondi: Saving the World from Nuclear War 5/1/23

Dr. Vincent Intondi, author of two books about the history of the anti nuclear movement ["African Americans Against the Bomb" and "Saving the World from Nuclear War"] gives us some insight into the little known history of the massive organizing that went into the struggle against nuclear weapons in the US. This was recorded on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the arrest of the original Golden Rule crew on May 1st 1968. Recorded at the Homewood Friends Baltimore, MD event May 1st 2023.

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Lisa Fithian: Escalating Resistance Mass Rebellion Training

As Pirate TV winds down to the final broadcast of the year, I can't think of a more fitting way to end it than with Lisa Fithian. A 58 minute version of her book talk will broadcast nationally beginning Dec. 30th. You can read up about her in the text of that video {Shut It Down}. I’m posting these two videos at the same time.

Looking ahead at the new year, it's very clear that time is running out. The Oil-igarchy that rules us have made it painfully clear that they are determined to keep on with business as usual until they kill us all. The are not going to let anything stop them. And once we're all gone, the corporations will still be here. They will be in a safe somewhere at the bottom of the sea.

Anyone at this point who is betting on electoral politics to save us is little more than delusional. Even if a miracle was to happen and Bernie was to win with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, it wouldn’t be near enough. It never has and never will be. The only way we are going to survive is by shutting the Oil-igarchs down for good. –Just like we shut down the WTO. We don’t have a choice. That means we need to be united and not only get out in the streets, but stay there. There are few people who know more about how to do this than Lisa Fithian.

I had the honor of taping WTO+20 events marking 20 years since the Seattle rebellion that stopped the WTO for good. I was lucky to be right in the middle of all that rebellion. I have been broadcasting what I can throughout this month and posting the rest as web exclusives. I saved the best for last. This two and a half hour Mass Rebellion Training session tells what we need to do and how to do it. There were many old friends and veterans of countless campaigns that filled the room at this workshop. There needed to be a million more. You can help by watching this and sharing it far and wide. For this is essential knowledge.

Thanks to the Community Alliance for Global Justice & Town Hall Seattle. Recorded 11/30/19
 

WTO+20 Workshop Intro

This is the welcome segment of the Dec. 7th afternoon workshops featuring an introduction by Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the WashingtonFair Trade Coalition and a short address by Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director of Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC).

Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle

WTO+20 Environmental Issues and Trade Workshop

We recorded two workshops from the Dec. 7th WTO 20th Anniversary event. This one features Selden Prentice from 350 Seattle with Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies and includes a short video address by Bill McKibben. Selden Prentice is an Environmental Lawyer, and 350 Seattle Policy & Economics Workgroup facilitator who worked for the EPA. Manuel Pérez Rocha is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and an Associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist and a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming.

This workshop focuses on the horrors of the Investor State Dispute Settlement process, the transnational kangaroo court system established in multilateral trade agreements which enables foreign investors and multinational corporations to sue governments for lost profits when they protect the environmental, labor, farmers, or human rights. Prentice is an expert on what's called the Alternative Dispute Resolution system. 

Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle

WTO+20 Food Security Workshop

We recorded two workshops from the Dec. 7th WTO 20th Anniversary event. This one features Karen Hansen-Kuhn, International Program Director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Heather Day Executive Director of Community Alliance for Global Justice and Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Karen Hansen-Kuhn is an expert on trade and economic justice, which she has been working on since the beginning of the NAFTA debate and is a prolific writer.

This workshop focuses on the effect that multilateral “free-trade” agreements have on farmers, food production, commodity dumping, and how over production causes scarcity.

Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 12/7/19

WTO+20 Morning Rally at Occidental Park

See icons of the continuing struggle for Fair Trade and learn about the horrific NAFTA 2.0 just passed by the Democratic controlled House.

1 MC Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition

2 Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 2:47

3 Robin Everett, Organizing Manager, Sierra Club
Ahmed Gaya National Field Director for the Sunrise Movement 8:28

4 Rhonda Ramiro, Chair of BAYAN USA -Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) 17:33

5 Jim Page, Musician 26:53

6 Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies 32:31

7 Larry Brown President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO 39:54

8 Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President of the AF L-CIO 42:20

Thanks to Washington Fair Trade Coalition, recorded 12/7/19

Joseph Stiglitz with Lori Wallach Keynote

After a brief action orientation with Lori Wallach (Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz dove into strategies for managing globalization while addressing countries’ markedly different social and political frameworks.

Thanks to Washington Fair Trade Coalition Recorded 12/7/19

Brian Snoddy with Special Guest Rod MacKenzie: JFK, The Killers

Longtime Kennedy assassination researcher Brian Snoddy connects the dots regarding the cast of characters involved in the plot to kill JFK. Examining the evidence of who was on the various shooter teams and their connections to various mob organizations, government agencies, deep state actors, and high level public and military officials, he sheds light on who would have a motive and how they were able they to take out the President of the United States and get away with it.

Recorded 11/18/17 At the Seattle Public Library, Green Lake Branch

Christopher Bollyn: Making Sense of the War on Terror

Christopher Bollyn, author of Solving 9/11, presented a lecture on his latest book, The War on Terror: The Plot to Rule the Middle East. Bollyn discussed the dual deception of 9/11 and the War on Terror and explained the hidden strategic plan behind America's longest and costliest war.

Recorded 10/5/17 at Seattle Public Library Ballard Branch

Deborah Parker: Love at the Crossroads- Climate and Social Justice

Keynote address, 2017 Faith and Climate Conference Former vice chair of the Tulalip Tribe, Deborah Parker is on the board of Our Revolution (Bernie Sanders). She has also
served as a Policy analyst in the office of Governmental Affairs for the Tulalip Tribe from 2005-2012. She has testified many times in DC and is outspoken on mental health issues. She also spoke at a huge Native women led NO DAPL demonstration in DC and is passionate about climate issues.

Recorded 10/29/17

Conference on National Happiness [Long Version], 

Seattle FBI Action 12-2-10

FBI was issued a People's Subpoena in Seattle 12/2 to call them to answer for their ...illegal raids and grand jury ETC. STOP FBI harassment of activists!

Friends of Sabeel Conference:

“The United States , Israel and Palestine : What Does Justice Require of US?” held at Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle 2/19-29/2010

Seattle hosted the premiere event: Friends of Sabeel – Puget Sound, a nonprofit working with and on behalf of Palestinians to promote justice through nonviolence in the Holy Land . Featuring internationally-acclaimed speakers and a vibrant array of activist voices, this conference explores the situation in Israel and Palestine today, the experience of occupation, the role of U.S. policy and nonviolent strategies for peace.

Keynote Speech Jeff Halper: No Partner for Peace: Our American Problem

Workshop Jeff Halper: Apartheid or Confederation? How have the facts on the ground created by Israeli government policies led to apartheid? What are the ways out of this? In addition to the one-state and two-state possibilities, there are other configurations we can imagine and explore, such as a Middle East confederation.

Keynote Lecture Kathy and Bill Christison: The U.S.-Israeli Partnership and the Impact on Palestine

Workshop Kathy and Bill Christison: A discussion of how U.S. support for Israel enables Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory and its oppression of the Palestinian people, with details on the cantonization of Palestinian territory through the Separation Wall, Israeli settlements, checkpoints, Israeli-only roads, and Israeli military controls.

Neve Gordon:  Keynote Lecture  Prospects for Peace in Israel/Palestine

Tom Nelson: Workshop The Goldstone Report: War Crimes and the U.S. Those places where international law has been violated are where civil society has broken down. Tom has investigated those places on the ground in the Gaza, and will look at the Goldstone Report on the basis of his own experience. US complicity in the crimes will be examined.

Naim Ateek:  Keynote Address Choose Life: Beyond Interfaith Dialogue: The Role of the American Church in Bringing Peace to the Holy Land.

Mark Braverman: Keynote Address Steve Niva: Keynote Address Shaping Hope into Action: Strategies to End Israel's Occupation

Richard Silverstein, Larry Johnson, Bruce Ramsey:

Workshop

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Media Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The panel examines the nature and quality of reporting on the conflict in both the U.S.:
1. How do we get more & better coverage into the media?
2. How do we make such coverage more accessible to the average American?
3. How does the collapse of print media alter the landscape for coverage?
4. Where do people get their coverage of the conflict?
5. Critique of media coverage of I-P conflict
6. What political issues should be covered that aren't being covered?
7. How to improve communications between Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. media and peace activist communities
8. Role of digital media, social networking in expanding access to news about the conflict
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Excavated from the ancient archives:

Thom Hartmann: Unequal Protection
 
With the recent Supreme Court ruling opening the floodgates for unlimited corporate money influencing our elections, the corporate takeover or our democracy is now complete. This ruling by the very same 5 fascist Supreme Court justices who overturned the 2000 election ushering in 8 years of ‘W', not only overrules a hundred years of legal precedent but also destroys “ strong state constitutional provisions prohibiting corporate influence ”. Commentators have been comparing this ruling to the awful Dred Scott decision which declared people to be property and have asserted that this ruling now makes it clear that property is persons. Better informed people trace the root of the problem back to the Santa Clara Co. v Southern Pacific Railroad decision of 1886 whereby corporations first asserted their certificate of personhood.

In this video, Thom Hartmann lays it all out: How this Supreme Court decision in fact never found any such thing and how corporate usurpation of human rights was stolen. And why the time has never been better to get moving on the process of revoking the legal fiction of Corporate Personhood once and for all. I hear rumors that Thom will be coming out with an updated edition of Unequal Protection in the near future. We look forward to seeing him back here in Seattle to address this subject again. This talk was recorded at Elliott Bay Books October 5th 2002.

John Stauber: Poisoning the Grassroots

Giant Corporations not only use their unlimited resources to subvert the public will by buying our elected officials, but to corrupt and subvert activist movements and nongovernmental organizations as well. PR Watch founder John Stauber gave this talk to the Twentieth National Pesticide Forum on April 27th 2002 at Bastyr University in Kenmore Washington .

There exist Public Relations firms whose sole purpose is to “mine” activists. They infiltrate and spy on activists and activist organizations compiling dossiers and using the information to advise their clients how to undermine their efforts. Stauber illuminates by example how corporations use this information to devise divide and conquer strategies to effectively derail reform movements. With this information, they divide the actors into 3 categories: 

“Radicals” are the ones who usually have a personal or principled stake in the issues at hand and most generally are the instigators of the movement. This designation does not necessarily connote a political orientation. They are “radical” in the sense that they are attacking the root of the problem. The “radical” in question may be a Republican grandmother living in a trailer out in the countryside who is suffering the effects of aerial bombardment from 2-4D, now dying of cancer and whose children and grandchildren are all sick. They want an absolute end to the spraying of toxic chemicals and a genuine redress of their grievances. These people are unlikely to accept compromises that amount to non solution solutions. 

“Idealists” are the ones who come to the support of the people who have been victimized. They may include rank and file members of large non governmental or other organizations committed to social progress as opposed to personal gain for themselves or their organizations. 

“Rationalists” are the ones, usually leaders of large nongovernmental organizations whose main interest is organization building, PR, and or fundraising. They are most willing to sell out their principles by negotiating “win, win” compromises that make their organizations and the corporations in question look good. They gain lots of corporate funding in exchange for “solutions” that don't threaten the corporate bottom line or make fundamental changes that may actually get to the root of the problems at hand. 

This is essential knowledge for anyone attempting any kind of reform which in our day would necessarily involve challenging some sort of corporate privilege. For instance, a direct analogy could be applied to what would likely happen if a grassroots attempt were made to take over from corporate control of the Democratic Party. John Stauber outlines how most large main stream environmental organizations have been compromised in this way and calls for a return to grassroots organizing.

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The War at Home

Ground Noise  and Static	Steven T. Wax:  Kafka Comes to  America	Paul Wright and  Silja Talvi: Who  Makes money from mass  Incarceration?	Cathy Wilkerson:  My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Jules Boykoff &  Kristian Williams:  New State Repression	Above the Law (1) Juanita Young; Nicholas Heyward Sr.	Above the Law (2) Ophelia Randall Ealy; Ivan Morgan	Edwidge Danticat: Brother, I'm Dying
Chris Finan:  Palmer Raids to  the Patriot Act	Amrit Singh:  Administration of  Torture	Sasha Abramsky: Age of Mass  Imprisonment	Matt Rothschild:  You Have No  Rights
David Callahan: The New Liberal Rich	Daniel Burton-Rose: Guerrilla USA	Health Professionals Torture Panel	Andrew Bacevich: Washington Rules
Ben Burkett: Connecting US African Farmers for Food Sovereignty	Jessie Freeston: The Real News	John Judge: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here pt.1	John Judge: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here pt.2
Dave Schermerhorn & Hazim Shafi: Crisis in Gaza	Abe Osheroff: A Conversation with Abe	Amory Lovins: Reinventing Fire	Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn: Trudge Toward Freedom
Nicholas Carr: The Internet and Your Brain	WPSR: Report Back From Gaza	Amy Goodman: Drilling, Spilling, & Killing from Oil Wells to Oil Wars	Max Blumenthal:  Crisis Among the Radical Right
David Korten: Agenda for a New Economy	Eli Kintisch & David Battisti: Hack the Planet	John Perkins: Hoodwinked	Thom Hartmann: Unequal Protection (Slight Return)
Duane Elgin: From the Rat Race to the Human Race	Pete Knutson: Where We Go From Here	Paul Loeb: Soul of a Citizen	Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Dr. Bezruchka &  Dr. Gloyd: War: Origins, Consequences, & Prevention	Shane Harris: Who's Watching You Now?	Ralph Nader: Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!	Noam Chomsky:  When Elites Fail
Alfred McCoy:  Psychological Torture and Political Impunity	Lawrence Wittner:  How Activists  Saved the World	Naomi Klein:  The Shock  Doctrine	Robert Elias:  The Empire Strikes Out
Town Hall Talk  Annie Leonard:  The Story of Stuff	Film	Film	Helen Caldicott: Why Nuclear Power is Not a Solution
Richard Becker:  Palestine, Israel,  & the U.S. Empire	Ali Abunimah:  The Crisis in  Israel/Palestine	William L. Marcy:  The Politics of  Cocaine	Dr. James Hollis  What Matters  Most
Lance Bennett:  Climate Change in/  Media Revolution	Cynthia McKinney:  Don't Get Tired  Working for Justice	Steven Hill:  Europe's Promise	Physicians for a  National Health  Program forum
Garry Wills:  Bomb Power	Jeff Halper:  Apartheid or  Confederation	Jack O'Dell &  Nikhil Singh:  Climbin' Jacob's  Ladder	Robert McChesney  & John Nichols:  The Death of  Newspapers
Thom Hartmann:  Threshold	Raj Patel:  The Value of  Nothing	Wilkinson &  Pickett:  The Spirit Level	David Swanson:  Daybreak
Marjorie Cohn:  The Rules of  Disengagement	UNA Food Security  and Climate Change panel	Iran-Israel-US:  Resolving the  Nuclear Impasse	James Fetzer:  Was 911 an  Inside Job?
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Thomas Seeley: Honeybee Democracy	James Wells with Mayor Mike McGinn: Stop the Coal Trains!	Greg Palast: How Billionaires Steal Elections	Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan: The Silenced Majority Tour
Thomas Frank: Pity the Billionaire	Dr. Michael Parenti: The 1% Pathology and the Myth of Capitalism	Miko Peled: Beyond the Zionist Paradigm- New Hope for Israel/Palestine	Ellen Brown: The Public Option in Banking
Jeff Clements: Corporations Are Not People	Dr. Jill Stein & Kshama Sawant: The Alternative	Flash Video (:58) Rocky Anderson: Standing Up for Justice	Hans von Sponeck and Sharon Moe: Responsibility to Protect (R2P) & U.S. Foreign Policy
David Domke & Christopher Parker: Obama, the Tea Party, and Racism	Flash Video (:58) Capt. Charles Moore: Saving Our Oceans from Plastic	Bruce Gagnon: The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis	Sanho Tree: Addicted to Failure
Peter Ward: Our Flooding World	Chris Mooney: The Republican Brain	Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt	Medea Benjamin: Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control
Tom Carpenter: Hanford Cleanup- Progress and Challenges	Conference on National Happiness	Arun Gupta: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?	Tim Noah: The Great Divergence
Ted Rall: The Book of Obama	War on Drugs: War on Communities of Color panel	Dennis Bernstein: Special Ed	Richard Falk: The Economic, Legal and Moral Costs of War
John Marzluff & Tony Angell: Gifts of the Crow	Avner Cohen: Israel, Iran, & The Rivalry Over the Bomb	Arjun Makhijani: Carbon & Nuclear Free in 30 years!	Mike Lapham and Brian Miller: The Self-Made Myth
Michael Huesemann: Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us Or the Environment	Faith Communities and Mass Incarceration panel	Dr. Zoltan Grossman: New U.S. Military Bases: Side Effects or Causes of War?	David  Barsamian:  Uprisings: From Kashmir to Egypt to Wall Street [Part 1] Part Two
Lawrence Lessig: Republic, Lost	pirate tv nomi prins it takes a pillage Nomi Prins: ‘Black Tuesday’-and Today	Flash Video John Nichols: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest	Flash Video Norm Stamper: Safe and Just Policing
Flash Video Andrew Ross: Phoenix: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City	Peggy Orenstein: A New Generation of Girlie-Girls	Flash Video Jamal Joseph: Coming of Age in the Black Panther Movement	Dr. Helen Caldicott: What We Learned From Fukushima
Katherine Davies and Thomas Linzey: Who Has the Right?	Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class	Christian Parenti: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence	Flash Video Kim Ives: Politics and Disaster: The U.S. in Haiti
Flash Video Rebecca MacKinnon: The Struggle for Internet Freedom	Frances Moore Lappé: Ecomind	Flash Video Jim Diers: Building Healthy Communities	Morris Berman: Why America Failed
John de Graaf and David Batker: What’s the Economy For, Anyway?	Shi-Ling Hsu: The Case for a Carbon Tax	Antonia Juhasz: Black Tide	Dorli Rainey, Rich Lang, Andrea Brenneke: The Occupy Movement & Police Response
Sam Brower: Prophet’s Prey	Helena Norberg-Hodge: Reflections on 'The Economics of Happiness'	Dr. Stephen Bezruchka: Nostalgia for the Future	David Barsamian: Beyond the Filter
Malalai Joya: US Out of Afghanistan Now!	Nicole Isle & Amanda Sturgeon: Biomimicry and Biophilic Design	Susan Herman: The Erosion of Civil Liberties	Gwynne Dyer: The Geopolitics of Climate Change
Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow	Ilan Pappé & Mark Rosenblum: Palestine at the United Nations	Ha-Joon Chang: The Fantasy of Free-Market Thinking	We Will Not Go Down Without a Fight!: Dennis Kucinich, Ashley Joppa Hagemann
Dennis Kucinich: The True Cost of War	Amy Goodman: Greenfest 2011 Keynote	Erik Lawyer: The Story of Firefighters for 9-11 Truth	WPSR: Blowing Our Way: Effects of Fukushima on Washington State
Norman Myers: Population Breakdown or Breakthrough?	Paul Gilding: The End of the World As We Know It	James Billmaier: The Electric-Vehicle Revolution	John Perkins: 2012 Prophesy: Radical Global Change
Dan Imhoff: Why the Farm Bill matters and what we can do about it!	After Citizens United: What Now? Forum	Daniel Tucker: Changing Our Food System	Simon Johnson: Break Up the Megabanks
Hatem Abudayyeh & Damon Shadid: FBI Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas	Mark Hertsgaard: How to Survive Climate Change	Stephanie Coontz: Revisiting ‘The Feminine Mystique’	William Hartung: An Exposé of Lockheed Martin
Zoughbi Zoughbi: Resolving the Crisis in Palestine/Israel	Peter Dale Scott: State of Emergency	Peter Dale Scott: America's Afghanistan	John Dean:  Conservatives w/o Conscience
David Suzuki:  The Big Picture	Bill McKibben: Eaarth	William Calvin:  Putting the CO2 Genie Back in the Bottle	David Korten:  A New Game; A New Economy
Tim Hanstad and Rich Lang	Wendell Potter: Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare	George Galloway: Stop the Witch-Hunt	Eric Alterman: Kabuki Democracy
Holden,McGinn,  O'Brien,de Place,& Paxton:  ...the Deep-Bore Tunnel	Steves, Gloyd, & Gates: UN Millennium Development Goals	George Hunsinger: Stopping Torture Forever	Roger Pielke: Repairing Climate Policy
Chris Hedges:  Empire of Illusion	Ted Rall: The Anti-American Manifesto	Thaddeus Russell: A Renegade History of the United States	David Wasdell:  Planet Earth- We Have a Problem
Markos Moulitsas: American Taliban	Fatima Bhutto: Songs of Blood and Sword	Robert Scheer: The Culprits Behind Our Collapse	Cain Prendiville: The Case for Socialism