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9 Theses Against Corporate Rule
1. STOP BUYING OUR GOVERNMENT. Fire all lobbyists and stop those secret deliveries of Cuban cigars. Citizenship is the primary American institution. Corporations are not voters.

2. STOP FETISHIZING GROWTH. Expansion every quarter? And who are these all-powerful share-holders. Gamblers hiding in smoked-glass Benz SUVs? The earth's idea of growth is a sustainable economy: Use that model.

3. STOP COLONIZING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. We know now that the seige by chain stores is another fundamentalist strategy. If the same logos circle us where-ever we go - do you think that this "anywhere-all-the-time" is the Promised Land?

4. STOP SELLING OUR THOUGHTS. You capture our unguarded remarks and ship them overnite to a fluorescing big box where they're sold as frozen mottos. Know this: We are actual citizens; we will take back our language.

5. STOP SELLING THE LIVES OF THE POOR FOR NOTHING. As you bind children to sweatshops and plantations, we'll make mischief in your stores as their proxy. Globalization is not really global after all; it is personal.

6. STOP DEMONIZING PEACE WORKERS. How long will you get away with casting people who want peace as violent? The old Orwellian switcheroo will not work when millions of us walk away from the consensual hypnosis of corporate marketing.

7. START GIVING AND STOP CONSUMING. Consumption is the addiction of America. "Consumer confidence" really means sweatshops are booming while the permanent oil-and-media war makes our country the world's villain.

8. STOP PRIVITIZING PUBLIC SPACE. If you tell three happy gossipers on the corner to "move on," if you kill the indy businesses and shutter Main Street, if you bulldoze community gardens and turn Times Square into Las Vegas East - remember that we carry our commons within us and will break your surveillance lens with our shouts.

9. SAY HELLO. We are not polling trends, focus groups, or inventory units. And you, the corporation, you are not one person. When you pretend to be one citizen with Constitutional protections, you systematicly attack the freedoms of real citizens. Break your company down into its human beings. Human beings can share power and notice the impact of wars and pollution. Leave the logo behind. Find the old gift.

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