The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility repre sents numerous church groups and uses shareholder activism to pressure corporations for change. Their newsletter, The Corporate Examiner, has useful information. Corporations exist only because we the people allow them to exist via charters issued by our state governments. Some states already have this legislation on the books but there is not enough public awareness to exercise this restraint on corporate power. A tactic that has proven useful in many different struggles is boycotting corporate products.
Special attention needs to be given to the environmental depredations of global corporations.
Greenpeace still ranks as one of the more creative and militant organizations working on environmental issues. A key battleground for the corporations is the minds of our young people. Corporations have penetrated the public school system with commercial messages and an ideology that extols profit-making as a civic virtue. We need a major restructuring of the U.S. tax system. To spur economic growth and more equity, we should demand a tax system that transfers wealth down ward to the majority instead of upward to the minority.